From Canada’s top brass to the Quebec government to the B.C. legislature’s speaker, it’s astounding how much time and energy determining what’s appropriate womenswear.
Oh boy. Women in the Canadian armed forces can now sport ponytails instead of buns and braids. They can wear flat shoes instead of pumps or oxfords. And they can throw away their “nylons.”
But here’s one of my many questions about what seems to be longstanding fixation with telling women what to wear. All the rules from you must wear a head scarf to you can’t wear a head scarf and work in the Quebec public service. You must wear a hat to church or God will be unhappy to God no longer cares if you’re wearing a hat.
There is no real equivalent to a man’s suit for women. Even when a woman like Hillary Clinton tries to invent one for her presidential run, she is criticized in a manner that even the shlumpiest of men is exempt from. Pants or shorts and a shirt and men are pretty much done. And, maybe a jacket if they don’t want to be called out by the fashion police who patrol places like the legislative building or the Vancouver Club.
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