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• Elizabeth Gentle, a celebrated journalist and communication specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the news industry, will be the featured alumni speaker for this year's Freed-Hardeman University ALUMination Days.
• HENDERSON, Tenn., Oct. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Elizabeth Gentle, a celebrated journalist and communication specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the news industry, will be the featured alumni speaker for this year's Freed-Hardeman University ALUMination Days.
• "I love Freed-Hardeman University, and I am excited to return to campus," Gentle said.
• A multiple award-winning journalist recognized with several Associated Press Awards for her outstanding work in the field, Gentle was also nominated for an Emmy.

• "EV sales are rising but are not keeping pace with EV inventory growth.
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• Apparently, it was enough to compel senators to unanimously pass a resolution on Sept. 28, 2023, mandating a coat, tie and slacks for men on the Senate floor.
• As a fashion historian, I’ve heard this tune before.
• It’s the same one sung by college administrators in the late 1950s when women wanted to wear pants to the campus cafeteria.
• The people living through these changes often consider them devolution rather than evolution.

‘Brainless’ students bare their legs

• The Shorts Protest of 1930 brought more than 600 students to the hallowed steps of Robinson Hall at then-all-male Dartmouth College to defy the much-hated dress codes outlawing exercise clothing in campus buildings.
• The Associated Press picked up the story and took it national.
• Student papers at Princeton and Harvard covered it, too, and Fox Movietone News showed up to record the day’s events.

Regulating women’s bodies

• Beginning in the late 1920s, shorts worn by women in public spaces were the subject of intense debate for more than 30 years.
• Social critics, boyfriends and fashion writers tried to put parameters on “when” and “where” the garment could be worn.
• And some country clubs in the 1930s made women wear trenchcoats to the tennis court in order to cover their shorts.

Pants pushback

• For decades, written or unwritten dress rules also forbade women from wearing pants to formal settings.
• Etiquette writers explained that slacks “insulted the aesthetic sense of men” and were appropriate in only one setting: when “you’re roughing it.” Nonetheless, women continued to wear pants in many varieties.
• The criticisms surrounding Schumer’s decision sound a lot like the complaints against female politicians wearing pants.

Independence and individuality

• As sartorial standards change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
• When John Fetterman wears gym shorts in public, I see him tapping into his personal identity and his political brand.
• Despite the buttoned-up outrage and jokes from Susan Collins about wearing a bikini, fashion is born of culture, and culture is dynamic.

• And 78% of firms expect that backlog to grow or remain level during the next twelve months.
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