Remember my Wells Fargo problems. . .

Even at the school for the Blind, we were told the thing about the patent
shoes. I know the way guys used to polish their shoes in the military, I
don't think this would have even been true there.
"Sherry" wrote in message
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On May 12, 4:09 am, "Lesley via CatKB.com" u27720@uwe wrote:
Cheryl P. wrote:
Your teacher must have grown up when girls were told that if they wore
those shiny patent leather shoes, boys would be able to see their
panties reflected in them! I wonder how many people actually believed
such stories?

It was in our school uniform code! We were not allowed patent leather
shoes
because men could see the reflection of your knickers in them!

My school uniform code- it was 30 pages or so long.....Just one example -
everything had to have a name tape sewn into it- my mother swore she
ruined
her eyesight doing those tapes!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

The only things I remember about our school dress code handbook is,
with our arms at our sides, our dresses couldn't be shorter than 1"
below the fingertips. (that's pretty short!!!)....Boys' hair could not
touch their collar.
Twenty years later, my daughter's school handbook said things like
"Underwear must not be worn as outerwear".
I'd *never* heard the patent-leather thing! That's a scream.

Sherry

Lesley via CatKB.com wrote:
Cheryl P. wrote:

Your teacher must have grown up when girls were told that if they
wore those shiny patent leather shoes, boys would be able to see
their panties reflected in them! I wonder how many people actually
believed such stories?

It was in our school uniform code! We were not allowed patent leather
shoes because men could see the reflection of your knickers in them!

My school uniform code- it was 30 pages or so long.....Just one
example - everything had to have a name tape sewn into it- my mother
swore she ruined her eyesight doing those tapes!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

That reminds me of a story I once heard, about a little girl on her first
day at school, she told her mother when she got home that the boys kept
looking at her knickers, so she took them off. ;-) I think childrens logic
can be amusing sometimes.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

Sherry wrote:

The only things I remember about our school dress code handbook is,
with our arms at our sides, our dresses couldn't be shorter than 1"
below the fingertips. (that's pretty short!!!)....Boys' hair could not
touch their collar.

You must have been in high school around the same time I was. Skirt
length on girls and hair length on boys were the main concerns at the
time. We had a hawk-eyed prude working in the principle's office who
would stand right outside the office and glare at the hems of the girls'
skirts as we walked by. Anyone wearing one considered too short was
nabbed and made to sit "on the bench". (The bench right inside the
principle's office, it was analogous to being "detained".)

In the fall of 1969, school dress codes were declared illegal in the
United States, so the hawk-eye didn't have much to do after that.

Twenty years later, my daughter's school handbook said things like
"Underwear must not be worn as outerwear".

LOL! The aftermath of Madonna.

--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

Lesley via CatKB.com wrote:
Cheryl P. wrote:

Your teacher must have grown up when girls were told that if they wore
those shiny patent leather shoes, boys would be able to see their
panties reflected in them! I wonder how many people actually believed
such stories?

The somewhat elderly "old maid" Dean of Women at my liberal arts college
(back in the late 1940's) told her Freshman girls' seminar we should
never wear red, because it excited men's baser nature. :-) (No, we
didn't ALL wear red the next day - some of us didn't happen to have any
red garments in our wardrobes.)

wrote:
Sherry wrote:

The only things I remember about our school dress code handbook is,
with our arms at our sides, our dresses couldn't be shorter than 1"
below the fingertips. (that's pretty short!!!)....Boys' hair could not
touch their collar.

You must have been in high school around the same time I was. Skirt
length on girls and hair length on boys were the main concerns at the
time. We had a hawk-eyed prude working in the principle's office who
would stand right outside the office and glare at the hems of the girls'
skirts as we walked by. Anyone wearing one considered too short was
nabbed and made to sit "on the bench". (The bench right inside the
principle's office, it was analogous to being "detained".)

When mini-skirts came into fashion, back in the 1960's, our company
rules said they could not be more than an inch above the knee. I
remember one of my bosses down on his knees with a yardstick, measuring!
Mostly as a joke - he had six daughters, and often treated the staff
as though we were an extension of his family. (That was long before
anyone would have even THOUGHT of it as "sexual harassment")