Should we ban miniskirts?

Johro · 26-10-2010 1:51am

gurramok wrote: »

Mini-skirts have been deemed as anti-social behaviour by an Italian Mayor

More ultra-social I thought..

mikerowsopht · 26-10-2010 12:53pm

omg, can we close this thread before fianna "fail" - pronouced fale ban miniskirts in Dublin.

Unless you have to grease those thights to squeeze into your miniskirt

ILA · 26-10-2010 1:00pm

Greentopia wrote: »

Maybe German women don't feel the need to bare so much flesh on a night out because they feel they're worth more than just being eye candy for men? That they dress more to please themselves than to attract a man?

It was my impression of the German women I've met, (and Swedes, Norwegians and Dutch for example) that their self-esteem is not so much bound up in how attractive they appear to men and pandering to what they like, whether that's clubbing or in their daily lives and they don't need to feel validated by men.

They seem to be much more feminist in their way of thinking about this than the average Irish woman who seem to take their cue for how they dress up on a night out (mini-skirts, tits out, loads of make-up, staggering along drunkenly in high heels,)from working class English culture.
Sad really IMO. It's something we do far too much of actually in this country-aping the worst parts of English culture.

Not saying all Irish women are like that of course not (I don't dress like that and I still look good ) but you only have to look at the indecorous sight of gaggles of females out on the tear for a night out in any town in the country to see what I mean.

Crusty

Joey the lips · 26-10-2010 1:03pm

Hell no! Ban knickers..... Only allow mini skirts and thongs....

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Dudess · 26-10-2010 1:33pm

Greentopia wrote: »

Maybe German women don't feel the need to bare so much flesh on a night out because they feel they're worth more than just being eye candy for men? That they dress more to please themselves than to attract a man?

It was my impression of the German women I've met, (and Swedes, Norwegians and Dutch for example) that their self-esteem is not so much bound up in how attractive they appear to men and pandering to what they like, whether that's clubbing or in their daily lives and they don't need to feel validated by men.

They seem to be much more feminist in their way of thinking about this than the average Irish woman

Still though, I'd personally go for something in between. I don't like the lapdancer gear look but neither do I like the rather frumpy, plain and dowdy clothes a lot of women on the continent wear.
I don't agree with them totally obscuring the shape of a great ass/boobs/pair of legs in order to show the world how they're not trying to attract men.

super_furry · 26-10-2010 1:35pm

Down with miniskirts!

26-10-2010 2:13pm

*walks over to the window*

The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removes his flak jacket, revealing a t-shirt with an iron-on sporting the MAD Slogan "up with mini-skirts".

Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed Charlie to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew consisting of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice.

I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!!

Wompa1 · 26-10-2010 2:57pm

Maybe it's just me but I haven't really seen many good looking girls around here wearing mini-skirts. Only dirty townie girls so I couldn't care less about it. Just don't go banning them in America or the latin countries...noice

starlit · 26-10-2010 8:55pm

Don't think they should be banned. Once dressed well and classy while wearing them its grand but does not suit every girl! It depends but don't think showing the flesh is a good look! Say leggings or tights are a good to wear under mini skirts. Mini skirts should not be woren at work, on nights out or casual wear is ok.