Who wears short shorts?
Wednesday, Aug 21, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Umm…
A Southern Illinois courthouse is relaxing its dress code to allow visitors to wear shorts — if they’re long enough.
Jefferson County officials began enforcing a new dress code this week. The rules also banned pajamas, house slippers, hats, tank tops, muscle shirts and halter tops along with inappropriate or offensive logos.
But officials now say they’re relaxing the shorts ban to include “appropriate” items. But too-short shorts are still verboten — if their hemline is above a person’s fingertips when their arms are extended at their sides.
So, what if somebody has really short arms?
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:00 am:
The anti-T Rex lobby strikes again.
- Been There - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:00 am:
===So, what if somebody has really short arms?===
Everybody else will be getting a good looking view.
Well, maybe not…
- so... - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:02 am:
Who wears shorts to a courthouse? Honestly?
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:02 am:
The nuns at my high school used to make girls kneel and if the hem of their skirt didn’t touch the floor, they got sent home.
Fun haters.
- Excessively Rabid - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:03 am:
Do flip-flops fall under the house slipper clause?
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:06 am:
Am I the only one disappointed that this post wasn’t a caption contest?
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:06 am:
You see all kinds of weird things in court. I saw a gal in pajamas one time. That instills a lot of confidence from the judge, I’m sure. I’d kick some of these people out of my courtroom if I were the judge. Decorum and respect are apparently four letter words to some people.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:07 am:
“Dear Jefferson County,
If I can’t wear shorts when I golf at certain places, then shorts should be banned at court.
Hit ‘em straight,
Tom Cross”
- Just Observing - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:09 am:
=== Who wears shorts to a courthouse? Honestly? ===
I think you’d be surprised what some people wear to court, even if they are the defendants. Remember this woman:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/jennifer-lapenta-contempt_n_587984.html
Still I’m not a big fan of courts of imposing dress codes.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:11 am:
===Who wears shorts to a courthouse? ===
If I’m going in to pay a property tax payment, and it was summer, I’d be wearing shorts.
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:13 am:
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If I’m going in to pay a property tax payment, and it was summer, I’d be wearing shorts.==
I’d wrap myself in a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. But that’s just me.
- langhorne - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:14 am:
taking it in the shorts w property taxes–seems appropriate to wear them. but clerical functions are different than appearing in a court room, even if it is in the courthouse generally.
- Friedman - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:15 am:
Rich—Is this the courthouse or courtroom? Courtroom makes sense. Courthouse…thats another matter.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:17 am:
===courthouse or courtroom===
Courthouse.
- Montrose - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:23 am:
Admit it. You did this post just so you could use that title.
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:24 am:
Similar to the ban that the nuns at our high school enforced that a boy’s hair could not touch his shirt collar. Except my (now) husband’s hair was the caucasian afro that just grew up and up and up. Ah, the 70’s!
- Cheswick - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:30 am:
Men’s shorts suit:
http://jerseygirlonstrike.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/short-suit-two.jpg
- A guy... - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:33 am:
Think of all the NBA players from pre 1990 who would not be allowed in the courthouse.
- Skeeter - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:35 am:
I see this as primarily inconveniencing lawyers.
The attorneys show up, pro se person is not appropriately dressed and gets sent home, attorney has now wasted an hour or so.
If a judge enters an order, the judge is going to reverse it when the person shows up.
Better to just have the judge yell at people for not having the judgment to act like adults when coming into the courthouse. It saves everybody time.
- bobby dylan - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:49 am:
47th Ward, your nuns were nice. We couldn’t get sent home no matter what we did! They did however keep tissue paper that they would pin to our hems to make sure the skirt did reach the floor. Plus you received demerits requiring additional time be spent at school. Sent home? That would have been heaven.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:57 am:
50 years ago, you’d be ridiculed and stared at for wearing shorts to church in summer…now it’s pretty common in many denominations. Aaah, the decorum.
- Joan P. - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 12:00 pm:
This sounds like my high school. Criminy. Don’t their security people have anything better to do than wield rulers?
- Aldyth - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 12:13 pm:
This runs a bit shy of being allowed to wear the clothes of my people approach to courthouse fashion.
- Realist - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 12:21 pm:
Who defines an “inappropriate or offensive logo”?
@Soccermom - I think it’s the small mammals. They’re planning to take over the world after the environmental destruction.
Oh, wait, that’s the cockroaches waiting to take over from us. Sorry ’bout those T-Rexes.
- Cincinnatus - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 12:41 pm:
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 11:06 am:
Am I the only one disappointed that this post wasn’t a caption contest?
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We had that one already, with Bill Daley.
- Luggie - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 1:48 pm:
I think it’s time for the human species to quit fussing about the cloths that a person chooses to put over their physical being. No one ever asked me if I thought it would be a a good idea to tie a decorative strap of material around my neck, yet others (heard followers) require me to do this in certain situations (court, business). The people who came up with this idea (neck tie) aren’t even living now, but we are still blindly following their rules with out asking why. I say we burn all neck ties.
- Shark Cyclone - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 2:12 pm:
“So, what if somebody has really short arms?”
They get an assist from the long arm of the law.
- Timmeh - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 2:56 pm:
“hemline is above a person’s fingertips when their arms are extended at their sides.”
Just for the record, I have fairly long arms (or so I have been told). When I do this, my fingertips are 3-4 inches above the top of my kneecap. My shorts are still longer, but cut another few inches and they’re not.
- Empty Suit - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 3:28 pm:
===Who wears shorts to a courthouse? ===
=If I’m going in to pay a property tax payment, and it was summer, I’d be wearing shorts.=
I believe that would violate the state’s obscenity laws Rich!
- AlphaBettor - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 3:37 pm:
I was afraid this would be a Pat Quinn caption contest.
- dupage dan - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 4:05 pm:
Short arms? That has a bad connotation in some parts. I won’t go any further.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Aug 21, 13 @ 9:32 pm:
Once, again. Nothing like living in Southern Illinois!!
- TCB - Thursday, Aug 22, 13 @ 8:20 am:
= So, what if somebody has really short arms? =
Jackpot!!!!!