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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by sebby:
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Your independence is no doubt respected. I wonder of you would have a gentle word with a young teenage daughter (say) who wore something maybe just a little too skimpy in the worng part of town on her own? Or would you assert her independence and keep quiet?
This is what Mrs Sioni and I did. When we were concerned about our 14 y.o daughter's attire we had a word with a couple of women between her age and ours and asked them what they thought of her clothes. They weren't impressed, as we expected, so we asked them to tell her. Sorted.
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sebby
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by sebby:
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Your independence is no doubt respected. I wonder of you would have a gentle word with a young teenage daughter (say) who wore something maybe just a little too skimpy in the worng part of town on her own? Or would you assert her independence and keep quiet?
This is what Mrs Sioni and I did. When we were concerned about our 14 y.o daughter's attire we had a word with a couple of women between her age and ours and asked them what they thought of her clothes. They weren't impressed, as we expected, so we asked them to tell her. Sorted.
That was a very sensible and sensitive way of dealing with it, if I may say so.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I'm seeing the discussion creeping from matters of taste to the rather different issue of whether what you wear invites and to that extent legitimises, sexual harassment or violence. (The answer is, of course, No).
Clothing as a form of social control is a valid topic for discussion, but probably not on this thread, and possibly not this Board.
Firenze
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[ 30. July 2012, 16:20: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Angloid
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Originally posted by sebby:
Cords?
I've got some but I don't really like them. Except in winter. Not smart enough to be dressy, and yet you feel you can't crawl around floors on them. (Not that I do that a lot, you understand, but having just spent the best part of two days erecting an IKEA wardrobe I'm glad I wasn't wearing cords.)
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Lyda*Rose
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Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
Today we have locked the door and agreed to not laugh at each other. It is well over 35 degrees in the office and I am in my Borat style "mankini" while my colleagues are wearing various forms of beachwear from Speedos to thongs and at least one other mankini wearer. Note to anyone interested in following suit - you can't sit down at a desk in a mankini without displaying your credentials. A piece of string around the hips keeps everything covered up.
I'm still sweating like a pig though...
Anyone seen Real Women Have Curves? There is a great scene where some clothing workers were sewing under a deadline in the midst of the LA summer. They had no air conditioning and could run no fans, because that would make the dust fly and smudge the high end dresses they were making. So the little workshop had literally become a sweatshop. The main character played by America Ferrara ("Ugly Betty") stripped down to her bra and undies and got the rest of the middle aged ladies to do it too. Except for her mom, who was horrified and seriously tut-tutted. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
It made everyone happier to be cooler and to flout convention, and they worked harder, too.
ETA: sebby, "cords"- Trousers made of corduroy.
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Vaticanchic
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Default setting: boot-cut jeans with heeled boots, loose white cotton shirt, black Barbour International jacket for the hardwear, messy hair & smouldering eyes ...
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Vaticanchic
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Firenze
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I'm seriously disturbed by the thought of two mankinis in the same room. Even on the passably buff (possibly not work safe unless you're in the same office as Bob Two Owls) they're a bit brain- bleachy. On the unbuff, I think you'd be begging for fat women in Spandex.
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Firenze:
I'm seriously disturbed by the thought of two mankinis in the same room. Even on the passably buff (possibly not work safe unless you're in the same office as Bob Two Owls) they're a bit brain- bleachy. On the unbuff, I think you'd be begging for fat women in Spandex.
O! M! G! I have never seen such things!
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Lamb Chopped
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Pete, are you serious?!? I mean, MY innocence remained undisturbed until Yorick graced me with a pic candidating for cabana boy, but I thought you were made of sterner stuff. Well, disturbed-er stuff.
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