That's Life

Yesterday's attire check was the third time for my class this year. As usual, the girls were frantically removing their shirt-strings, safety-pins and whatnots and desperately unfolding their skirts. Despite their valiant attempts, 3 of them were presented with white slips for short skirts. (skirt higher than the knee level) What's the world coming to these days when even wearing shorter skirts is a punishable offence?

There are many advantages of sporting less green cloth for the girls, in fact so many that it seems downright ridiculous not to impose a new rule which dictates that the minimum length of a skirt be 4 fingers above the knee.

If the skirts are shorter, less cloth will be used. This means that the costs of production of the suppliers decrease due to less material being used per skirt. As all suppliers aim to maximise profits, this decrease in the cost of production will give them an added incentive to supply more skirts at the given price. Anyway, it must also be noted that most girls alter their skirt anyway and the extra cloth goes to waste, so why not save the cloth and make the original skirt length shorter?

As the saying goes, 'if you have it, flaunt it'. Although most of the girls obviously do not 'have it', they still like to 'flaunt it' and with Singapore being the democratic nation that we all know, who are we to restrict the girls' choice of skirt length?

Shorter skirts will mean more surface area of the legs are exposed to the external environment. This means that the girls wil not feel so hot and humid as more wind can come into contact with their legs and draft away the warm air surrounding them.

Of course, there is always the possibility that the school will still not come to terms with these obvious benefits that can be derived from allowing girls to wear shorter skirts. Thus, I have also come up with a few viable alternatives.

The school should allow girls to wear their FBT shorts around the whole day. In fact, FBT shorts are so short that they make the 3 advantages mentioned above seem even more advantageous than ever. Hell, I think the school should just make FBT shorts the official school bottom for females since they allow for less cloth to be used, more leg to flaunt and a larger surface area to be cooled. I'm sure the girls, boys and even some academic instructers such as Pervicheeko wouldn't mind.

The other alternative, as suggested by Jie Liang, would be to make the girls wear green pants. This way, no matter how the girls alter their trousers, there is absolutely going to no way the bottom half of their attire will even touch their calves.

After this mentally stimulating post, I'm sure all of you now agree with me that short skirts will be better for all. I shall sign off with a conversation overheard during Civics today:

Mr Vadi : You don't come to school just to be interested in skirts.
Solomon/ Terence: Oh no, we're interested in what's inside them.