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Today is a Skirt Day

This is the day, generally referred to be females who wear jeans or pants nearly all the time, when they have no choice but to wear a skirt.

It is also known as Laundry Day.
You think I jest? Well, this is the typical conversation a woman may have in a restroom or in another place where ladies gather:

Woman 1: You don’t usually dress up! You look nice.
Woman 2: um..
Woman 1: Is it a special occasion? Do you have a meeting?
Woman 2: (grimaces) No.
Woman 1: Ah! (realization dawns) It’s laundry day, isn’t it?
Woman 2: Yes it is :-(
(Woman 1 grimaces in sympathy)

Another incantation of Skirt Day is when a group of such females decide together that on day X they will all wear a skirt just for a change and they will do it together in solidarity so if someone comments on one of them, they will have to comment on all.

I myself have never participated in this collaborative effort, but I have seen the females in my sister’s lab do it.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of skirt days I had while in undergrad and that is including the dress up days (some special holiday/festival when I figured I would get all dressed up to celebrate and that isn’t really a skirt day). I was lucky then. My mother is a manic washerholic. By the time I reached undergrad she washed clothes every single day. If we weren’t careful our jeans would be washed that often!!!

In grad school, where I am now, when I’m depressed and not in the mood, I postpone laundry day until absolutely necessary.

So, today is a skirt day.

And it is notoriously difficult to either get skirts with decent pockets or get seamstressed to put decent pockets in them.

Skirt Days are horrendous.