So a question to be posed. Up to you guys. Want to cut your hair and wear official uniforms? I won't be here next week, but Q'luin is free to impose these restrictions on you guys so you look like fine, upstanding weyrlings -and have something to growl and complain about or admire just how hot you look with well-trimmed hair and looking smart in a uniform. Begs the question… will Veveshoth insist Al'tair go bald?
Chironath would be /thrilled/ with a uniform :P OOC, I'm fine with whatever. Maybe a uniform, but as long as hair is pinned up and off the collar/not in the eyes/out of the way people don't have to cut it? Military women are allowed to have their hair braided and pinned up so long as it meets those requirements. So it seems fair enough.
Hee. Of course, for at least half of the services, that particular part of the female uniform isn't allowed 'til after boot/basic. The idea being they'll be too busy/worn out to take care of it 'til afterwards…
…Okay. Uhm. Klohi has frizzy, curly… /nappy/ hair, right? And we keep this controlled in pigtails. …I don't even quite know that would happen if it was cut. Other than Harquith mourning. Loudly.
I'm good with whatever the majority wants. I could work with the super strict dress code, or just let things be.
I will admit, the idea of uniforms and the weyrlings having something new to gripe about does appeal to me. ;)
Uniforms. Um. Wouldn't all the cleaning, scrubbing, oiling negate the purpose of having uniforms for now? O.o It's a cool idea but weyrling riding leathers when we get to that point? That does seem to spur all sorts of possibilities leading up to it. :D
Actually, that /is/ the point, I'es. This is why when you work on cars in a shop you wear dungarees. Uniforms are generally made out of an unattractive durable fabric which holds double the threat — easy to wash, and unsexy. Having to wash all those separates — well it pisses off the drudges. Toss a bunch of ugly uniforms in, and they get a kick out of knowing you /had/ to wear them, and they all wash together in one big load. Wheeeeee!
There seems to not only be a lack of response, but a pretty lukewarm one, so I think I'll let it lie. Too bad, cause we had a lot of fun with the uniform when I was a candidate. They said we had to wear black and white any way we wished, and an orange crossing guard vest. I dressed Q'luin up in prison stripes from chin to boot - and we glowed in the dark! No losing one another. I think last group had bright orange dungarees? I can't remember. Just somethin to RP! Good, bad, or ugly!