I READ with deep empathy the letter from the 14-year-old girl, “Teen’s skirt ‘not nice’, no entrance to library” (The Star, Dec 3). It reminded me of an incident experienced by my family when my wife and I took our children to the Tun Abdul Razak Public Library, Ipoh one day in the late 1980s, and the letter my wife wrote to The Star after that. I still have the newspaper cutting of the letter.
My wife who was wearing knee-length skirt pants was stopped at the library entrance by the guard who told her that she was inappropriately dressed. When I checked the notice outside the library, it stated among others that shorts were not allowed for males and females above 12 years old even though at that time, shorts were still widely used as school uniforms for secondary school boys and as sportswear for schoolgirls.
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