Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 08, 2011

Both, stupid.

How about wear the summer clothes if it’s hot?

At my high school, it was an unwritten rule that you don’t wear shorts to school or else you were “uncool”. Considering it was in MD and school didn’t start until September, it was mostly okay, but some years were torture until the weather cooled off. Looking back, it was dumb!

HS for me was too long ago to remember how we dressed or the rules school had for clothing.Holly why try to sweat it out your sister is right.

When I was in middle school, back in the late 60’s, there was a dress code, and shorts weren’t allowed. But girls weren’t allowed to wear pants at all anyway. When they abolished the school’s dress code, while I was in high school, I never wore a dress or skirt again. But I didn’t wear shorts to school either, though some girls did.

I had this exact conversation with my daughter on the first day of school which in my school district falls in August. Temperature in the 90s, and she wears a long-sleeved shirt and long pants that were meant for cooler temperatures. She claimed she just wanted to wear long sleeves. She came home and complained that the building was too warm. LOL.

Alix is (sort of) wrong about black (or dark colors) not showing sweat stains. If you sweat heavily enough, you’ll get white lines at the edge of the patch that got sweat damp. With the 100+ degree temps we had this summer, I had them regularly on the dark shirts my workplace’s dress code called for.

Yup, some of us old rocks remember when no matter your gender shorts meant being sent home from school. And the gals had a choice of skirts or dresses. AND jeans were out. T-shirts too. Oh, and if you were a guy and your hair was over your ears or your collar, well, lets just say the principle had a set of shears in his desk ….. Ahhhh …. good times! lol!

Holly was pulling on the brown sweater yesterday. I know, I know: it’s a comic, so I must suspend my sense of reality. :)

I remember the year I graduated from high school,in 1970, they suspended the dress code at public schools. Until then, we had to wear dresses or skirts – no pants.

When I went to school, girls always had to wear skirts or dresses. It didn’t matter if it was a warm summery day or a -45* January blizzard. I wish I had been a bit braver sometimes and had been able to dress for comfort and convenience rather than someone elses fads. Ive only worn a dress about 3 times since I left school 45 some years ago.

In the late 50s our HS was in southern Illinois recived a KID to take over. The first thing he did was to forbid boys from wearing jenes.Insted white shirts and dark slacks where the order. The second thing he did was to pack his bag. The farmers and my dad(who owned a meat packing plant) told the kid that every one had to work before and after school and didn’t have time to change. Try that one today.