Do It In A Dress Charity?

[Robyn Jodie]

I ran into this Australian site:  http://doitinadress.com.

Apparently they are trying to raise money to help girls in Sierra Leone get an education, and they have an annual fund drive in October.  Part of the fund raising activities are to have people sponsor you to "do it in a dress" -- like run a marathon or whatever (they have a list of suggestions).

The interesting thing is that part of the "kit" they send out ($30 -- I presume that's $30 AU), includes a schoolgirl's uniform dress -- in ladies' and men's sizes up to XL (with XXL, etc. available for an additional price).



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[BillieJo]

What if you wanted to use your own choice of dress?

[Celeste]

That is one ugly dress.

[sissybaby34]

I think it needs long white socks and mary jane shoes.

[Robyn Jodie]

to: Celeste,

It's a school uniform dress.  I thought there was an unwritten law that they had to be ugly.  I think that's one reason the guys in the picture are willing to wear them.


to: sissybaby34,

Absolutely agree, although I personally would go for ankle socks rather than knee socks.

[Babypants]

I think the pink dress is kind of cute, however, he does need "white" socks and maybe maryjane shoes.  I love the collar on this dress; it looks like a Peter Pan style just a bit.

[Betty]

I've seen lots of school uniforms, but those are the ugliest I ever saw.

[Robyn Jodie]

The funny thing is, after snooping around the site I think they may be the actual school uniforms worn by the girls in Sierra Leone -- or by some of the Australian women at the site when they were actually in school.  I do agree that they're rather ugly (I'd say they're pretty ugly, but that sounds oxymoronic).

[ace]

Standard Australian school "Summer" wear - for girls that is.

The winter uniforms are more "traditional"
 


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[BabyLock]

Ace:
Those summer outfits look a bit heavy/warm and out of place for summer wear - "BUT" then it occured to me that the seasons are opposite of
what we have in the northern hemisphere.
So in that respect we are going into Spring and then Summer while the Australians are going from Summer into Autumn and therefore
the climate change would require something warmer.
Still puzzling is the whole of Australia is closer to the equator and does not have the cold weather extremes the continental USA 48 does.
But then UNIFORMS are UNIFORMS and everything must be UNIFORM aye what say ?

BabyLock