A US City Is Considering Banning Miniskirts And Short Shorts
How short is too short? Will the council members parade around town with tape measures, we wonder? [Photo: Rex]
We reckon we’d move out of London pronto if Boris Johnson tried to tell us what we could and couldn’t wear, but then we’re not residents of Dadeville in Alabama. In a city with a population of just 3,000 people, things probably function a little differently. But then again, why should it?
The city, which probably rarely, if ever, makes the news, became the topic of global conversation last month after announcing a ban of sporting saggy trousers and now it’s hinting at a similar clothing ban for women.
City Councilman Frank Goodman said in August that baggy sports trousers are “disrespectful” and now councilwoman Stephanie Kelley plans to impose a ban on short shorts and skirts for ladies, Alex City Outlook reports.
“My concern is it should be for everybody,” Kelley said during a recent meeting. “I think for the girls, with these shorts up so high looking like undergarments and dresses so short, I don’t want us to be showing favoritism.”
While it’s great that the city is being equal to both genders, who is this council to tell its residents what they can and can’t wear – and determine what’s respectful?
And does wearing a short skirt really mean a person’s being disrespectful? Must mean that Taylor Swift’s being impertinent 99 per cent of the time.
Surely it’s a question of etiquette – not the law.
“Who is going to respect you if you don’t respect yourself?” Goodman said in a meeting last month, prior to instilling the outlaw on baggy trousers. “The reason I brought this up is I think people deserve respect when they are in public. I think slacking is disrespectful. I think it gives our younger generation the wrong impression of what is cool.”
It’s not know of the ban on short shorts and mini skirts will go ahead, but the city attorney Robin Reynolds says he hopes to have the decision made by the next meeting.
“If the council wants me to write in something for the females – it will take a little more creativity on my part,” he said.
Fingers crossed that no councils in Britain ever get it into their heads to bring in bans like these – we can only imagine how well that would go down.
