[ SECRET POST #2870 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2870 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[X-Files]


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(Doctor Who/Torchwood)


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(Benedict Cumberbatch)


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[Star Trek]


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[Star Trek Voyager, "Macrocosm"]


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[Great British Bake Off series 4, Ruby Tandoh]


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[How to Get Away with Murder]


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[Far Cry 3]


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[Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Skirts were a different length back then. You are making a fair criticism, but I also understand why the cosplayer changed the length to some thing more modern.

It's not really a slut thing, either way.

[(Anonymous)]

Covering your knees in a government job is not remotely retro. If a real G-Woman nowadays went around in short (by which I mean, above the knee) skirts she wouldn't keep her job long.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh really? I'm from the UK so perhaps it's different here.

In the early 90s, office skirts were generally knee to calf length. Over the knee would not have been acceptable.

They've shortened considerably since then, or at least there is a larger range of acceptable lengths. I've seen shorter skirts than that on the cosplayer, and I work in a very traditional finance sector where the staff have to project a serious, professional image.

[(Anonymous)]

The US still retains quite a lot of our early Puritan influence. It's why, when compared to Europe, we are way more uptight about sexuality. No business-woman would wear a skirt that short even in the hottest climate. I think there was even an episode of Ally Mcbeal where the judge threw her in jail for a while because he thought her skirts were so short as to be disrespectful of the court.

(As a side note another Puritan influence is the thing about us not being big drinkers. Seriously, if you drink in America the way many people do normally in the UK, you will be asked if you have a problem. There's also the part where we've got a huge car culture as well, and obviously driving and alcohol are a potentially fatal combination.)

[belleweather]

Yep. I'm a USG Employee and that skirt would be too short for work in any office I've been in or visited. We're finally (mostly, I hope!) over the 'women must ALWAYS wear stockings, even in the sticky morass that is a Washington, DC summer' thing (although some still do) but Federal work is still pretty darn traditional, dress-wise.

[(Anonymous)]

I work in a government job and none of my skirts reach my knees (I wish they did but I'm too tall). I've never had anyone say anything about it, and a lot of other women wear skirts the same length or shorter. Obviously a mini skirt is a no-no, but as long as your skirt is longer than mid-thigh it's fine.

I'm not in the US though.

[(Anonymous)]

really? oh boy. My mom introduced the mini-skirt to where she worked at the district court. And she went on being a well-loved and respected judicial officer for a long, long time.
Kinda happy I live in nudist germany :P

[(Anonymous)]

No. Formal business suits for women still fall below the knee. You could get shorter skirts back then as well.

[iceyred]

Nope. If I came in to work with a skirt that short my boss would tell me to go home and change. Some suits may have skirts that fall above the knee, but not that many and not by that much.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I would never wear an above knee skirt for job interviews and the office work that I do. Maybe I'm just more formal, but I don't think it's really an 'item of its time'.

[(Anonymous)]

Why on earth do you understand a cosplayer doing something to a costume that is incorrect?

It doesn't matter if it's more "modern." Scully didn't exist in the year 2014. Scully existed in the '90s. If you're cosplaying a character from the '90s, then you should dress like it's the '90s (you should dress like the character, period).

[(Anonymous)]

Why does that matter? She's cosplaying a character who was in a show in the mid 90s, not a character who's in the FBI right this minute. If someone were cosplaying Steve Rogers from the Marvel movies, they'd use the military uniform of his time period, not the modern army uniform men wear today.