Ban on mini-skirts for UK working women
LONDON: Women in Britain's offices have been banned from wearing mini-skirts to work, and people involved in "customer-facing roles" have been told to look more professional "in a way that shows respect to children and families".
Around 400 staff in Southampton City Council's children's services department received a memo telling them they should dress respectfully and "carefully consider their work attire" , the Daily Mail reported.
Council bosses said in the memo that women wearing mini-skirts could be sent home, while men have been advised to wear "collared or polo shirts, cotton trousers such as khakis or chinos with a belt" .
Women can wear trousers, informal dresses or skirts of "reasonable" length, but "not mini-skirts" .
"Please try to dress smartly and thoughtfully, in line with other professionals you come across in your day-to-day work, and in a way that shows respect to children and families ," it said.
Women, however, have threatened to fight the ban, as one of them said: "Are they going to come around with a tape measure?"
"I would have thought the council has got better things to do than impose a regimented approach to what people wear," said Mike Tucker, secretary of a union
I rest my case. Stop pointing fingers until you clean up your own country.
how you think and says that dirty from my side?
very sad to say to this modern people like you that u dont know what is dirty!
I posted about dress code of a human being that's all.
try to understand or ...
The only one animal wearing dresses since human being things that all the six senses having all senses and so on... we are calling us human being.
but now the developing countries like india and arab countries just following Western especially for their dirty cultures (of cource we should follow their hi tech development)
But at difference, the westerns are turnig become human being like changing their philosophies and so on and thinking about their dress codes.
its really apprciatable things from a Western country office.
but we have to thing ourself and where we are? and our society
Rizks you save yourself from vandilism.
Another lesson learned,not to bring such topic to forum. People you all are right. please each of you follow your beliefs. Let us not judge each other. Leave judgement to Almighty. Have a nice evening. Iam on the way to enjoy my dinner at Homeland restaurant. Please join us. Lakum dinnakum waaliadeen.
;)
well
forget about
some times, this happen to me, when i don't understand wat i'ad posted ;)
btw, i'm ready to to protest against this ban, are you ready?
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They must really hate the heat since we don't have good a/c like here in qatar.
xxxpat
i thought, u heard stories from Prince William, that its an old tradition, which we have to follow, by hook or by crooks ;)
yeah..there are garbage bag advocates in haja shaikh's land too, sadly.
xxxpat
i'm really sorry to heard this kind of stupid bans from your side, wat they will do, when ambient will be 30 degree Celsius ;)
a dirty culture. ESPECIALLY coming from YOU! Look at your own country first, you twat.
with dress why not we can not look a proffessional
The Church of England is headed by the Queen, but she doesn't exercise her role as monarch for religious purposes. In fact, if you understand Bitish politics you will know that she is more of a figurehead than ruler.
you should look professional at work, most workplaces in the developed world have this guideline anyway.
xxxpat
a country stay secular under the guidance of church???
am i missing something here.......lol
Ex.ex.expat,good that you understood my point of view,and i never said that Britain was becoming an Islamic state.The core issue here is the way women should be dressed in a professional way so as not to show disrespect to children and women.This is ban that the city council has enforced,the parliment hasn't passed this law.I am not against Non-muslims in general,our ISLAM teaches us to be kind to people of all religions.
XXXPat...I cant compare an organizational policy with a Government's policy. For me, there is no comparison between the burqa & mini issue.
And then, I didn't endorse Southampton City Council's policy in my earlier comment...I was just against its comparison with the burqa issue.
This move is not inspired by Islam or British Muslims but, Professionalism. Don't panic, There is no chance of a Britain-istan ;)
I so hate it when people insert religion into anything and everything.....
Many of us born and bred Christians find your statements that we are becoming islamicised insulting.
I know several muslim converts myself, here and back home. Good for them that they found a peace that was missing in their lives before.
What I took offense at was you fellows acting like you know that Britain is becoming an Islamic state. That would be both arrogant and offensive to many Christians such as myself who want to see our country stay secular under the guidance of the Church of England.
And I seriously don't believe the miniskirt issue is not about Sharia or Islamic influence. But I can see why it would make some muslims happy to think it is.
My apologies for assuming you are one of the muslims who come to the west to do all those things you aren't free to do in your own country. I wish more muslims were decent like you.
Ex.ex.expat,with all due respect,i do not wish to start an inflammatory,abusive debate here because i know it would turn very nasty later,what i meant was and i guess you misunderstood my comments,was that ALLAH SWT guides whoever HE wishes and i have personally seen a lot of westerners embrace ISLAM because they love ISLAM and love the Islamic way of life.They also say that they are at peace with themselves now then they were before.If you are Muslim you will know this.
Anyway,this was supposed to be a healthy discussion and i respect the other person's opinion.Lets just keep it clean here.
Yes, I read it in the daily mail and the telegraph.. I expected the Mail to be slightly extreme, but funnily enough, the articles were pretty similar.
I disagree wholeheartedly with the use of bans. They are uncalled for in a free society.
In this council's case, i would have expected them to issue dress guidelines.
Since this applies to people in "customer facing" roles, I think a guideline of dressing professionaly is valid and both Burqas and mini skirts would be inappropriate in my opinion.
clothing optional.
Its the only fair way...
unless you are cooking bacon in a diner of course...
what you see in Qatar is not related to what happens in the UK. Here's a hint for you: many Westerners come here because they are curious about Islam. Some convert; most do not.
Wow you must be very powerful!
If you studied a little history, you would know that Britain has always been more conservative than countries like France and America. Where do you think the Puritans originated from? Someone has decided to exercise their power by forcing our lovelies to cover up, but you keep thinking it's about islam if it makes you feel better.
The irony is that you're the same guys that come to my country to ogle the women and support the sex trade, cause you aren't so free in your countries! lol
You're absolutely right saeedkan,i have seen it personally when lots of non-muslims embrace ISLAM in the masjid during salaat jumaa'
See what i am talking about.
I disagree with you ex.ex.expat,this issue has to do with ISLAM in a very strong way,especially with the huge number of people around the world not just in Britain who embrace Islam.ALLAH SUBHAANAHU WA TAALA gives the HIDAYAT to whomsoever HE wants.As it is mentioned in the Qur'an 'You cannot give hidayat to the people you love but ALLAH SWT gives hidayat to whoever HE wants'.
bending over for the "rights" and special treatment of a minority group, while not applying those allowances across the board. Why do you think people protested in the beginning? And I know you read the Mail so surely you saw the correlation being drawn.
NO Britain-istan for me thanks.
its gonna help avoid witness some flabber for thighs :D
I disagree.. There have already been voices raised about this issue.. The council has backtracked slightly and said "We do not have a rigid dress code and will not be going around offices with a tape measure.
"We do not have lots of staff at the council wearing miniskirts – that was just picked as an example of what would be inappropriate."
This ban will help solve a lot of problems in Brit.. starting with the new generation's mindset... will avoid sex crimes, teen pregnancy, divorce, etc. etc...
will create space of innovative non exposed fashion, rise in skirt prices due to use of additional material, etc, etc.
i m just giving my opinion...
to think so. It has more to do with some older, unattractive women not wanting to be shown up by the young lovelies ;)
Keep dreaming about Britain-istan.
how to dress. If you want the burka, you have to also accept the mini for others.
it's a BAN. And just like those opposed to a burka ban based it upon freedom of expression to dress as they see fit, many oppose this ban to keep ladies from dressing as they see fit. The difference is that all the bleeding heart PC Brigade won't come to their support. They only do that for "minority" groups.
These are signs that people in the west are turning slowly but surely towards Islam by trying to dress decently INSHAALLAH.
that's true.
yup Rony, the world is in search of equilibrium... 'surely' the quest has light years to kill
I agree with you Khattak. Professionally is so different from conservatively.
There is no point of dragging the "Burqa" issue here. They have instructed the women to dress professionally, not conservatively.
brit
i'm not agree with you
ppl who are willing for work, use their sense when dressing, but others just want to get work done through others, so here they don't use their sense for dressing :P
This is guideline to dress modestly in the workplace..
Most of us use common sense when dressing for work, but sometimes others need to be riminded..
xxxpat
if they are inspired by shria laws ;)
I have applied for the job as inspector of skirts. I will need an assistant. Qualifications: must be good with ruler. Applications on a post-card please. You'll help me assess whether a short skirt qualifies as a mini-skirt, or whether it is just about reasonable...
I am from Southampton and dont think this rule is going to stick I agree with Mr Tucker
If the PC brigade say that a woman should have freedom to wear what she wants when it comes to the burka, they can hardly stop the home-grown mini-skirt from being freely worn, imo. There will be a stink over what is becoming of our country.
its all coz of britexpat ! :(
lemme burn him first......:)
"Women in Britain's offices have been banned from wearing mini-skirts to work" ????
This ia an edict from Southampton Council and does not apply to the whole country..
The memo is telling them to dress respectfully and wear skirts of 'reasonable' length.
I see nothing wrong with that ...
it's applicable to certain offices only! Which I think is justifiable!
i will BURN tat bloody office which came up with this sarcastic rule...:(
that would b nice, heard the same on fm radio
west leaning towards east
east leaning towards west
:)
rizk, where are you?? your comments are highly appreciated here...hehhehee
Ohh really?? Is this a kind of strict diktat? I am afraid if any women would follow the rule strictly..