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Marduk wrote:This is why BYU should return to its policy of only allowing girls to wear skirts or dresses.

Once upon a long time ago, my mom was in high school. The school rebel/fashion diva decided it was fashionable to wear mini skirts. This was in the 60s. The school board decided to ban mini skirts. So she then decided that granny dresses were the hip thing. Sleeves to your wrists. Skirt to your ankles. High neck. The school board them banned granny dresses. Their reasoning? "It's what boy's can't see that make them think bad things." (Except worded much more eloquently than that. I'm super tired and I can't think of the right wording right now. Maybe tomorrow I'll call my mom and get the real wording.)

@Marduk: I loled
@Dragon Lady: I double loled

if people are so concerned with leggings, you should've seen some of the dresses the high school girls i saw at whataburger were wearing tonight. dresses that BARELY covered their butts. nothing on their legs. it was SO TACKY. i would never let my child out of the house in a dress that short.

ETA: what do byu students do once they, you know, go out in the big scary WORLD?! i've been known to wear leggings with a dress, but my dresses are never more than one or two inches above my knee.

Leggings: I like them. They keep your legs warm and hide the fact you haven't shaved recently. That being said, I'm a bit of a stickler for modesty. I don't correct people about it, though, since I'm too nonconfrontational.
Skinny jeans: I don't like them. They feel weird to me so I don't buy them. In this case, it's personal preference. I tend to not notice if someone else is wearing them.

As a side note, can you imagine Superman wearing skinny jeans instead of tights?

Imogen wrote:... never let my child out of the house in a dress that short.

oh, this. I ran the county youth center for a number of months in High school and recall one little girl (as in; well shy of teen-age years, 8-11 at the oldest) in what I can best describe as stereotypical stripper garb. I had no clue how/why a little girl would choose that particular outfit until I met mommy: dressed in very similar clothes...


sigh.

As for the rest, I'd be perfectly fine if BYU banned skinny jeans. Guys just shouldn't do that. At all. Girls, you go ahead and do as you wish, guys who want to dress like girls: no. Just no.

Imogen wrote:if people are so concerned with leggings, you should've seen some of the dresses the high school girls i saw at whataburger were wearing tonight. dresses that BARELY covered their butts. nothing on their legs. it was SO TACKY. i would never let my child out of the house in a dress that short.

ETA: what do byu students do once they, you know, go out in the big scary WORLD?! i've been known to wear leggings with a dress, but my dresses are never more than one or two inches above my knee.

I think the people who can't handle seeing two inches of legging-covered skin above someone's knee just probably don't ever leave Provo. I don't know what they would do if they ended up at my school, where girls (and some guys) will actually show up to class wearing semi-transparent tights (that you can see their thong through) with a shirt that doesn't even come down to their bellybutton. Which is a look that I've never actually seen anyone pull off without looking awful, but many people try. You just want to throw a blanket over them, not because they look like walking pornography, but because it's winter right now, and they must be freezing.

TheBlackSheep wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/24027/

Bahaha.

Awesome. Good times!

Tao wrote:

Imogen wrote:... never let my child out of the house in a dress that short.

oh, this. I ran the county youth center for a number of months in High school and recall one little girl (as in; well shy of teen-age years, 8-11 at the oldest) in what I can best describe as stereotypical stripper garb. I had no clue how/why a little girl would choose that particular outfit until I met mommy: dressed in very similar clothes...


sigh.

As for the rest, I'd be perfectly fine if BYU banned skinny jeans. Guys just shouldn't do that. At all. Girls, you go ahead and do as you wish, guys who want to dress like girls: no. Just no.

that's what my friends and i kept asking: where are their mothers? i think a mini-skirt can be very cute if you have the legs for it, but the dresses i saw were pretty much just tunic dresses. of course, i'm the girl who likes to wear pantyhose and believes in proper undergarments.

and i don't see guys in skinny jeans as trying to dress like girls. they're trying to be "emo," which is terribly OBNOXIOUS.

And also, as far as the honor code goes, I don't see how wearing leggings with a skirt that you're worried might be a half-inch or so too short is bad, but wearing a shade undershirt with a top that you're worried might be a bit too short is fine. Some people are just tall, and it's hard to find stuff that's long enough even if you're not tall these days. There's a big difference between having the legging-covered inch above your knee show and wearing leggings as pants.

I don't know if never leaving Provo prevents this sort of thing. My mother and father were out in east Provo and, at least, according to my mother, saw a girl in her early twenties go out to retrieve the mail from the mailbox on the street (this is state street, so not exactly a private cul-de-sac) wearing only a transparent raincoat. That would DEFINITELY break the honor code.

Dragon Lady wrote: Once upon a long time ago, my mom was in high school. The school rebel/fashion diva decided it was fashionable to wear mini skirts. This was in the 60s. The school board decided to ban mini skirts. So she then decided that granny dresses were the hip thing. Sleeves to your wrists. Skirt to your ankles. High neck. The school board them banned granny dresses. Their reasoning? "It's what boy's can't see that make them think bad things." (Except worded much more eloquently than that. I'm super tired and I can't think of the right wording right now. Maybe tomorrow I'll call my mom and get the real wording.)

WHAAAAAAAAATababahahahbrghhghlbrglrb.

Translation: This makes me simultaneously amused and infuriated. Not to mention just plain confused.

Seriously, what would they have us do? Not go naked, surely… Stay inside forever? How about GENDER SEGREGATION? No one is allowed to even see the opposite sex until marriage! :D

Yes, it is what we CAN'T see that makes us think bad things. Hence, we should be shown everything. This is going to go well.

See! The LDS nudist was right!

On a slight tangent, there are some girls in my married student ward (who are presumably endowed) who always wear short skirts (a few inches above the knee) to church. I don't mean to be judgmental, not at all. I just can't figure out if it's even possible to wear garments with some of those skirts. One of the girls is a RS teacher, and I'm always super distracted by that when she's teaching.

Sure it is possible. You just have to cut a few inches off the garments.

My garments are a few inches above my knee.

Dragon Lady wrote:My garments are a few inches above my knee.

Me too, especially when sitting. But I still wouldn't feel comfortable wearing a short skirt.

C is for wrote:

Dragon Lady wrote:My garments are a few inches above my knee.

Me too, especially when sitting. But I still wouldn't feel comfortable wearing a short skirt.

Nor I, but it is possible to wear a skirt just above the knees and not show garments.

C is for wrote:

Dragon Lady wrote:My garments are a few inches above my knee.

Me too, especially when sitting. But I still wouldn't feel comfortable wearing a short skirt.

Define short (for you).

Having briefly experimented with the skirt I'm currently wearing, I've come to the conclusion that I could conceivably wear a skirt 3 inches above the knee and still be modest (at least in nylons, which tends to be my standard considering I wear them every blessed day). I would feel uncomfortable with that. I tend to feel uncomfortable when I can't pull my skirt down to at least my kneecap, and usually wear skirts I can completely pull over my knees.

yeah. Short is at least three inches above the knee.