[Prudence]

I'm really ticked that the student in charge of the law review alumni dinner decided to set the dress code such that all female members of the law review are *required* to wear skirted suits if they want to attend. I don't have a suit with a skirt, and I'm not going to frantically search for one and have it altered, all for a dinner AT THE SCHOOL. I have several nice suits. I have several nice dresses. I do not have suits with skirts because they make me look like a potato with legs and I'm not spending $300 on a suit I'll wear once. (Because by the time I had a second occasion where it was required, it would be either inappropriately out of style or the wrong size.) I don't know people feel it necessary to continue to set dress codes for professional settings that would require me to wear a skirt. I know there are hoity-toity firms out there where that's expected, but I would never consider working there. (It would be just one example of many of why that's the wrong place for me.) I didn't expect to hear out here, from a female student, that women aren't professionally dressed if they're in pants. Grrr.