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Re: Long Skirt

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-03-08 18:49

When dinosaurs ruled the earth, we had school rules that forbade girls to wear trousers. We also had a rule, in those early days of the mini-skirt, that if a teacher thought a skirt looked too short and gave the order, "Kneel down on the floor," the skirt had to be long enough to touch the floor from that position. Otherwise: suspended; go home. But even so, a knee-length skirt was plenty short enough to discourage me from sitting with my knees apart. As a result, I learned to play alto clarinet "sidesaddle."

As an adult, I much prefer trousers to skirts. I now play with the alto clarinet straight ahead. It's so much easier and more convenient for me that the learning curve for switching positions lasted maybe half an hour. Maybe less!

I'm an amateur and I don't play in public, but if I did play in public and a conductor tried to dictate that all the women had to wear dresses, I think I'd start an insurrection. I mean, sheesh, hardly anybody dares to yowl and moan about U. S. Congresswomen and female Senators wearing trousers on the House and Senate floor any more -- and nearly all of those women do prefer trousers. The Secretary of State wears them, too. Welcome to the 21st century!

Lelia
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