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RainRain Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 8,761
Swedish male train drivers wear skirts to work Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work. Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which doesn't allow shorts. The 30-year-old Akersten said Sunday the response from customers has been only positive. Arriva, the company that runs the train line, hasn't stopped the drivers. Arriva spokesman Tomas Hedenius says the company wants its staff to look "nice and proper," but can't stop men from wearing "women's clothes" if that's what they want because it would be discrimination. He didn't rule out a change of the company's uniform policy. http://news.yahoo.com/swedish-male-train-drivers-wear-104757819.html

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  • pilgrimtexpilgrimtex Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 429
  • RainRain Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 8,761
    Hey, I'm just giving a shout out for some guys that got around the rules to make a point...which I love to do.
  • pilgrimtexpilgrimtex Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 429
    No flames here. Saw a chance to show off my legs. LOL
  • RainRain Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 8,761
    I know no flames, but I did not want you...and your massive collection of sharp weapons...to think I was downing a skirt ;)
  • webmostwebmost Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,131
    I prefer the dhoti. Comfortable simple and cool. Pants were an adaptation to horseback life. We dont ride horses no more. Ought to go back to skirts. Air the pair.
  • ToombesToombes Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,451
  • MarkerMarker Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,524
    Our company says no shorts, no sandals, business casual. Fridays are jeans but they still need to be jeans in good repair and a decent shirt. The ladies wear sandals, moccasins, tshirts that pass as some kind of blouse, capri pants, lycra/spandex pants with a long tshirt, etc. One day a guy on jeans day wore a tshirt that was old and a little ragged. They had him change it out. Ladies... never get talked to.
  • pilgrimtexpilgrimtex Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 429
  • MartelMartel Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,423
    Marker:
    Our company says no shorts, no sandals, business casual. Fridays are jeans but they still need to be jeans in good repair and a decent shirt. The ladies wear sandals, moccasins, tshirts that pass as some kind of blouse, capri pants, lycra/spandex pants with a long tshirt, etc. One day a guy on jeans day wore a tshirt that was old and a little ragged. They had him change it out. Ladies... never get talked to.
    So wear what the ladies wear like the train guys and see how that goes. And post pics.
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