As an aside, I remember a story when one young lad came to school in a skirt...somewhere in America I think. He got sent home and of course it made the local news and got picked up on the national feed.
I thought his comment was so funny and put everything back into proportion. He said something like "I really don't see what the problem is with wearing one piece of material that surrounds both legs as opposed to a more complicated item that covers each leg individually.".
Oh to be eighteen and articulate and to burst the adults' bubble of pretention.