Also, women routinely wore slips and girdles and such, so even if the dress itself was a single layer, they were still wearing another layer (or more) underneath.
I disagree. Most women are pretty practical about choosing their attire, even when choosing items that cause some inconvenience. Even if they wear a short dress, for example, they make sure it’s not SO short that they need that second hairstyle.* If they wear very high heels, they make sure that they can actually walk in them.
But some women are not at all practical about these things. We’ve all seen women staggering around in stiletto heels that fit so badly that they can’t even walk. A woman intentionally wearing a dress that she can’t sit down in is all too believable to me.
*An old coworker of mine used to tell me about the tight spandex dresses she wore when she was going out. But hers weren’t as short as her friend’s. The friend’s were so short that… (spoilered for those with weak constitutions) she had to cut her tampon strings off!
I obviously can’t swear it’s true, as it’s a FOAF thing…but eww!
Get over worrying. And insist that I must let them into the lab even though the lab rules clearly state that trousers must be worn… “no, shorts which show half of each buttcheek do NOT count as trousers.”
This morning I brought Mom to buy a pair of trousers for her gym class. She almost bought a pair that she couldn’t sit in :smack: “but they actually fit…” “no, Mom, you can get inside them, but you can’t roll around the floor in them, therefore they do not fit.”
I can’t read Javascript here at work, so spoilers are generally wasted on me. I only can see them if I reply to the post. So generally I just ignore them. Howevem yours is one of the few I clicked on…
And it was worth it. Oh. My.
Nava, in my old job, one of the women there used to bring in her teenage daughter to work/volunteer. The manager had to tell her that hotpants for her 16 YO daughter were not appropriate in the workplace. How do you even go to work with your daughter wearing hotpants? I know you can’t control your kids all the time but when they’re right in front of you, shaking their little jailbait ass at 40 YO men - well let’s just say my mother would not have thought I was too old for a slap in the face. What the fuck is wrong with people?
I’ve never been much for short skirts. But I did go to highschool in the eighties, and wore the super tight jeans. I had to use a coat hangar through the hole in the zipper handle to get enough leverage to pull it up. Often laying straight back on the bed as well. When I took them off, I’d have long red dents down my legs where the seams were.
I doubt many women would do this on purpose, but it is possible for a dress to be too tight to sit in and I’m sure some women have bought such dresses by accident. Dressing rooms don’t always have chairs, and it probably doesn’t even occur to some women that the fabulous looking dress that fits them fine while standing in the dressing room might not allow them to sit comfortably. A woman might also purchase a dress online or through a catalog and realize too late that it doesn’t fit that well.
I guess there are probably some women who would knowingly wear a too-tight-for-sitting dress if it looked great on them standing up, but a woman who KNOWS she can’t sit is going to be prepared for that and do her best to avoid sitcom mishaps.
There are also some dresses that need to be hitched up a bit to allow the woman to sit down. This happens when the skirt is very tight around the hips but gets wider around the thighs (to allow for walking). When I was living in Asia I bought a long and rather tight cheongsam-style dress on a whim. The salesman warned me that I’d need to hitch the skirt up a couple of inches to sit down or I’d risk busting the seams. I did this both times I wore the dress and had no problems, but if I hadn’t been forewarned I might have tried to sit normally, realized it was difficult/seam-straining, and wrongly concluded that there was no way to sit down safely.
I’ve read similar stories of cowboys doing the same thing with the original Levis. It was either in Panatti’s Extraordinary Origins OF Everyday Things or his Browser’s Book Of Beginnings.