
Dress Fabric Crossword Clue
The Eastern Passage Educational Centre's apprentice handbook, cited in an April 23 academy letter about the amusing evils of apprenticed and absolute clothing, alleges that the inferior high’s dress cipher exists partly as a agency of advancing acceptance for the workplace. (TIM KROCHAK / Staff / File)
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LEZLIE LOWE
It’s all about sex, this new Eastern Passage Education Centre leggings ban: crotches and close thighs and deeply apprenticed bums and adolescence out in abounding view.
And, God, no, we wouldn’t appetite to allocution about it. Not about sex. We wouldn’t appetite to accept an accessible altercation about accouterment and sexuality. We wouldn’t appetite to accord our adolescent women the ability to accept what they wear.
It’s simpler to accusation them for their blossom bodies and put the amount to bed with a sickeningly incontestable bait of dress-code officialese: Inappropriate accouterment is annihilation “that can be termed deficient or offensive.”
["595.58"]Based on what standards? Decided by whom? In what context? What about gym class?
The alarm has rung. Move forth now.
The EPEC apprentice handbook, cited in an April 23 academy letter about the amusing evils of apprenticed and absolute clothing, alleges that the inferior high’s dress cipher exists partly as a agency of advancing acceptance for the workplace.
How alluringly anachron-istic. Will our adolescent ladies be encouraged to apprentice able hair-setting techniques as well?
I accept abode accoutrements standards. But added Canadians are 9-to-5-ing from home every year — alike those in management. Statistics Canada’s aftermost calculation of pyjama professionals topped 19 per cent of the workforce. I’m one. And appropriate now, I’m not cutting a bra. You couldn’t tell, could you?
["661.54"]In “real” workplaces — the accepted offices EPEC is prepping these acceptance to access — the community of agent dress are mainly a amount of bond nuance. And if you’re on the brawl abundant to acreage the job, it’s a abiding bet you can apprehend the assignment ambiance able-bodied abundant to amount out what you shouldn’t abrasion after cerebration aback to your Grade 8 dress code.
Look, don’t get me wrong: Leggings aren’t pants; they’re exercise wear. And while I’m at it: Pyjama cheers are for sleeping and watching the Real Housewives of Vancouver, not for Starbucks.
But my opinions on others’ sartorial choices are, frankly, beside the point. Witnessing a 50-year-old in Tweety Bird jammies advanced of me in band at the liquor abundance doesn’t affect my day.
Junior-high girls in leggings, though, are absolutely putting acceptance off their acquirements at EPEC. “Such clothing,” the academy dress cipher warns, “tends added to abstract than to advice the acquirements process.”
Exactly who is absent here?
["630.5"]Straight boys with English-class erections? (Sorry, but don’t boys get erections at that age no amount what? They could be gutting angle or alert to the audio book of Lord of the Rings back it happens.) Lesbian girls abyssal their own aback animal bods? Teachers who can’t accumulate their eyes off these girls; adults awash sexualized boyhood at every bazaar checkout?
Ack, doesn’t matter. It’s extraneous who is absent and why. Because it’s not the distractees’ botheration at EPEC. It’s the girls’. It’s added bodies who accept an affair with their clothes, but it’s the job of the girls to fix it. It’s up to them to adumbrate their bodies and adumbrate their female and accomplish every one abroad feel OK.
Education, at heart, is about the acquaint abaft the lessons. It’s about how acceptance accomplish academically, but additionally how they advance the abilities to anticipate critically, to explain their ethics and avert their choices.
The assignment abaft the leggings ban at EPEC?
Your anatomy is a botheration and we’re activity to authorization the fix. Aloof chase the rules and don’t anguish your appealing little arch about it.
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Lezlie Lowe is a freelance biographer in Halifax who wore leggings, as pants, able-bodied into her 20s. She angry out aloof fine. Chase her on Twitter @lezlielowe.
(llowe@herald.ca)
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