When Daily Observances Go Too Far
Honestly, I don't know how this got started. Or why. Or by whom. I just wish it hadn't. I've no idea how widespread this practice is. Does it extend to judges in courtrooms? To members of Congress? To surgeons? Waitstaff? For many years I worked at a Quaker school and after that at a school for kids with autism. I used to wonder how the kids felt seeing their teachers in their 'jamas. For the record, I was never, not even once, a participant. I didn't understand those who did participate. But if you , dear reader, choose to wear your flannels to work, I support your [dubious] choice and right to do so. When I was in junior high school, back in the days when no one of any gender wore blue jeans to school, there would be the occasional "dress up day." The girls would be wearing Sunday dresses along with their nylon stockings (with garter belts) and worrying about getting "runs" in them. This was so long ago that knee-highs hadn't been invente...
