Recurring dress code kerfuffle getting tiresome FMTNews
It’s getting very, very tiresome. This business about the length of skirts and shorts at government departments, hospitals and police stations has gone on long enough.
This happened less than three days after a woman visitor to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Pahang was denied entry because she was wearing a pair of shorts that apparently did not cover her knees. I watched the video that went viral on March 7 and didn’t find anything indecent about her dressing.
On Feb 15, according to reports, a 60-year-old woman was barred from using the elevator at the Pasir Gudang City Council to renew her business permit on the second floor because the security guard felt her dress was “too short” and that it must reach her feet to be considered “long enough”. In May 2022, lawyer Norman Fernandez was quoted in The Star as saying that a security guard stopped his wife from entry at the Wisma Persekutuan complex in Johor Bahru because he deemed her attire “provocative and indecent”.
In 2017, Women’s Aid Organisation assistant treasurer Meera Samanther was stopped from entering Parliament grounds by security personnel because they felt her dress was “indecent”. In fact, after several incidents in 2015, the dress code became a heated topic in the Dewan Rakyat, with Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching urging the health ministry to instruct hospitals and clinics to provide treatment regardless of the attire worn by patients and family members.
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