Why Not Edinburgh Dress Code
Dear Editor,
["960.3"]Funny business, this 'sleeveless' thing.
Way aback in the 70s when, as a adolescent Jamaican macho abiding as a company to Carifesta in Jamaica, I capital to ride the alternation (or diesel) in my shorts. The aqueduct or alternation bouncer told me I could not abrasion my shorts on the train.
I asked why. He told me that because he was cogent me that.
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I asked area that aphorism was accounting abhorrent me from cutting shorts. Again, he insisted, that it was his rule.
I said, “But, Sir, I had aloof afresh accustomed on a British Airways even cutting these aforementioned shorts, and they didn't acquisition it a problem.”
Again, he insisted that I could not to abrasion shorts on the train, and that he was activity to put me off the alternation at the abutting station.
["1940"]So, as I could not change into pants on the train, nor did I appetite to be put off it, I said: “Okay, in future, I won't abrasion shorts on your train.” He accustomed my obeisance.
Just about a brace years ago, my sister from the UK went into a tax appointment there in St Ann to get some paperwork sorted out for an accommodation she was affairs in Ocho Rios. They banned to serve her because she was cutting a sleeveless blouse. She had to acknowledgment to her friend's abode in St Mary to change into a dress.
What the hell is accident there in Jamaica? Is this a Sharia society? Does the Taliban or Saudi dress cipher administer there?
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I mean, there are added than abundant 'naked' bodies adrift the streets there, so why the ageism appear a changeable cutting a sleeveless dress or blouse?
On one hand, it's those carnal males who are the problem. And, on the added hand, old-fashion Victorian chastity still prevails in Jamaica.
Time for a change, and for accepted faculty in this matter, please.
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George Garwood
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