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Arthur · 6 answers · 1d

Mayor allows city staff and drivers to wear bermuda shorts due to extreme heat. Thoughts?

That's cool, I see people who have to wear suit jackets in 90+ degree weather downtown and I always figured they were going to be the ones who started the revolution but I guess not 😞

sounds fine but I hope that’s not meaning the staff and drivers don’t get air conditioning if they are working in extreme heat

Considerate. Its good to look smart, but I feel for men who have to wear trousers for work when its very hot. Smart shorts are sensible.

I don't know what Bermuda shorts are, but people should be allowed to wear whatever they want. Sure, we may prefer seeing professionals in professional attire, but to enforce any kind of dress code in any context is needlessly authoritarian. (Well, except for in entertainment where costumes are a part of the production.)

People shouldn't even have to wear clothes in public if they don't want to. The fact that we forcibly imprison people for exposing their natural body parts is a sad testament to how sexually hung up society is.

Uniforms of public servants has been on debate here too. But a bit on a different level. Women can wear mini skirts and shorts as part of their official clothing and men are allowed to wear no tie and short arm shirts. Our police officers too, so short arm shirts, wide trousers, no ties and also princess Leia hair do buns are official. Brussels has some of the cutest and friendliest female police officers.

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