Can Someone Explain To Me Why Men Cannot Wear Shorts On A Building Site But It's Ok To Wear A Skirt?

[youngmafbog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5837467/Ingenious-brickies-wear-summery-skirts-dresses-health-safety-rules.html

[ToraToraTora]

don't look for logic, this is Elfin-Safe-tee!

[hereIam]

I absolutely love those photos of the brickies wearing dresses and skirts - good on 'em !

[Mamyalynne]

Adam in the animal print (for day wear?) wants to watch his tie belt doesn't get trapped in any machinery.

Once happened to me with my pinny in the mangle.

[Peter Pedant]

thank god
Brexit Trump and the world cup - Kim and world starvation
and here we are discussing the really important stuff like Brickies wearing shirts - skirts I mean....

[Peter Pedant]

// Once happened to me with my pinny in the mangle.//

poor rather thick Daley Thompson got crucified with a variant of that ( nevuh laughed so much since my gran caught her ...... ) - the dec in decathlon gives you some idea of the IQ needed to do it

[anotheoldgit]

/// The wearing of shorts is discouraged by the HSE because it leaves the legs vulnerable to cuts which can easily become infected and due to sunburn (melanoma cases have apparently increased rapidly recently). ///

Good job that the 8th Army were made of stronger stuff back in those days.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Edwin_Brookes_%28right%29_8th_Army_Royal_Engineers_North_Africa_1942.jpg

[jno]

is Edwin Brookes someone I should know about?