workshop dress code

[jackiew]

I wear bib and brace overalls when I'm doing anything messy but they are all made to fit men ... i.e. to get them big enough in the bum you end up with overalls that are too big everywhere else ... you have to cut the legs down and shorten the shoulder straps.

yakka do a range of women's workwear which unbelievably goes up to a size 22 ( there seems to be some odd view from the manufacturers of specialist clothing that women over about size 16 don't exist e.g. cycle/motorcycle gear)

http://www.yakka.com.au/ww/ww_range....At=ww&depAt=ww

[smmee2]

i definately have to wear a shirt thanks

[smmee2]

thanks i will look up that site thanks jackiew

[Termite]

to get them big enough in the bum you end up with overalls that are too big everywhere else ... you have to cut the legs down and shorten the shoulder straps.

Hmmm.... so my calculations come out big bum, no t1ts, short legs and I hope to God a good sense of humour

[smmee2]

opposite of what you are thinking.
You are very funny!

[gold leader]

Just curious..... Which school? My SWMBO just landed her first job as a geography teacher at Waverley College, and she's fresh out of uni.
A female woodwork teacher? Wow, how cool......

[smmee2]

sorry dont want to tell as the bigwig might find out and then i could be in even more trouble than what I already am. But it is not that school.
I am a female teacher teaching Wood in an all girls School. Watch out boys

[outback]

AHHHM shouldn't you be teaching girls to woodwork, and not finding out about dress codes from a bunch of blokes, who struggle to dress themselves?

[Barry_White]

Looks like the younger generation is in for some competition to see who uses the shed. Whatever happened to embroidery and cross stitching and most important cooking and washing.


From an old dog for a hard road.

[Barry_White]

Hmmm.... so my calculations come out big bum, no t1ts, short legs and I hope to God a good sense of humour

Ithink he was writing to jackiew.

[jackiew]

Hmmm.... so my calculations come out big bum, no t1ts, short legs and I hope to God a good sense of humour

perfect figure in other words - btw you missed a mean right hook and a long memory

[smmee2]

we teach the boys those topics now!

[DaveInOz]

WHOA - TIME OUT

You're teaching woodwork to the general female population ! :eek:

That is not on. We love our exceptional lady woodworkers but teaching females indescriminatly is not on.

Don't you realise that these women may get married.
Having a wife with even basic woodwork skills would severly cramp my beer-drinking / bullsh!t-talking shed time.
If SWMBO knew what productivity should be .. I'd be shot.

Anyone know the ramp up time for a really obscure but potentially productive hobby.



BTW dust coat is the go for classes, just don't keep your lollies in the pocket or people will get suss.

[AlexS]

When will these tin gods stop worrying about workshop dress codes and start doing what they're paid for, which is educate the kids. Things haven't changed since my school days, when the headmaster used to preside over a disfunctional school (despite the efforts of a few good teachers) while periodically conducting purges on those wearing crew cuts, black socks (?) fluoro socks (OK, I can understand that), ball games in the playground (it was a boys school, George) and rugby league (I do wish you boys would take up chess instead).

One of my few entertaining times at school was when I was outside the head's office when the new woodwork teacher turned up - wearing his crew cut & black socks, and proceded to tell the head that rugby league was his sport of choice.

If you're reading this, Mr. Cleary, you were a good woodwork teacher, despite the crew cut.

[Wood Borer]

Smee2,

I think it is great the girls are learning woodwork. Is it compulsory or optional and how many years do they do?

Our son had to choose either woodwork or metalwork but whatever the choice, it was for 6 months only. He chose metalwork so he went through 13 years of Primary and Secondary school without ever doing woodwork – very sad and pathetic.

Our daughter on the other hand went to an all girls state school and did a whole year of woodwork. We still use the recycle box she made.

When she was living at home and going to university, she would often go into my shed with her friends when we were on holidays. They didn’t do any woodwork but they all enjoyed the atmosphere and the smell of the timber. It still makes me feel good that the magic of woodwork rubbed off to her. I am sure her woodwork at school also helped.

Now she is keen for us to buy her and her partner some woodwork tools for Christmas.

I am not sure what clothes she will be wearing when they do their woodwork though.