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Here's a thought:
Mar. 24th, 2009 09:35 pmScungies.
Those weird lycra undie-like things which you have to wear over your underpants and under your sports skirt in primary school. What is with scungies? They do absolutely zippo as far as Protecting the Young Lady's Modesty goes. All they do is make sure that everyone has something green, or blue, as the case may be, under their skirt.
Yet I if I recall correctly, at at least one of my schools, they were part of the uniform.
I think I also remember wearing 'cottontails': cotton underpants designed to be the same size, colour and shape as scungies, without giving you the nasty synthetic-stuff-in-your-nether-regions effect, and being called out on it (by teachers? other students?), because my scungies weren't the same as everyone else's.
SERIOUSLY, people. If you're going to have uniform undies, why not under regular skirts too? (After all, primary school girls hang upside down from monkey bars in all their clothes.) If you're concerned about the young lady's modesty... what is WITH those miniscule netball skirts?
Finally, observe the fact that at my school, where on out-of-uniform-day your hems were inspected for modesty, those blasted netball skirts were uniform right from Kindy to year 12 (shorts did appear as an option at some point, thank god, but sadly, vr. ugly shorts. We could've done with nice green culottes, IMHO).
Those weird lycra undie-like things which you have to wear over your underpants and under your sports skirt in primary school. What is with scungies? They do absolutely zippo as far as Protecting the Young Lady's Modesty goes. All they do is make sure that everyone has something green, or blue, as the case may be, under their skirt.
Yet I if I recall correctly, at at least one of my schools, they were part of the uniform.
I think I also remember wearing 'cottontails': cotton underpants designed to be the same size, colour and shape as scungies, without giving you the nasty synthetic-stuff-in-your-nether-regions effect, and being called out on it (by teachers? other students?), because my scungies weren't the same as everyone else's.
SERIOUSLY, people. If you're going to have uniform undies, why not under regular skirts too? (After all, primary school girls hang upside down from monkey bars in all their clothes.) If you're concerned about the young lady's modesty... what is WITH those miniscule netball skirts?
Finally, observe the fact that at my school, where on out-of-uniform-day your hems were inspected for modesty, those blasted netball skirts were uniform right from Kindy to year 12 (shorts did appear as an option at some point, thank god, but sadly, vr. ugly shorts. We could've done with nice green culottes, IMHO).