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Headline: "Told to wear short skirts..." Actual email: "We ask that you wear...short but somewhat formal dress and heels"

• krapp 7y ago
  The issue here is not whether a skirt is a dress, but the implications behind the qualifier "short," which are the same both for skirts and dresses, notwithstanding that a "short but somewhat formal dress" and a "short skirt" are functionally the same.
  • QUCLvAdF0L 7y ago
    I think the implications are "don't wear a gown" and "wear a plain (this is a business event, not a social one) knee-high dress," since this describes the vast majority of dresses that turn up when I search for "cocktail casual." Anything above thigh-high would indeed be short, but hardly formal.
    • gremlinsinc 7y ago
      And if the person is transitioning f->m or is non-binary and is offended by the requirement that they dress in a dress at all? Maybe they'd be more comfortable in a tuxedo, or a pant-suit. Maybe they have a scar on their leg and they're self-conscious about and gives them trauma the thought of showing off their legs...