"As servants of Jehovah, we rightly want to look our best, which means dressing in a way that is neat, clean, in good taste, and appropriate for the occasion." - God's Love ch. 5 pp. 50-61

 

Yeah that's my thigh. It was spring "Sprit Week" at the school I work at.  Everyone is a little down and stressed out.  We have state exams for three days starting next week.  Spring break feels like its forever away. We needed this week of funny outfits to ease the stress.  On twin day, I dressed like one of my thirteen year old student, blue sweatshirt, black skinny jeans and sneakers.  Today is black and white dress up day.  So I put on my black skirt, and white blouse.   My short black skirt.  My “not witness approved”  short black skirt.  In all actuality, the skirt really isn’t that short, but according to JW’s views of dress and grooming, showing your knees is immodest.  Granted, some of the girls broke the rules but typically not at meetings or out preaching in filed service.  I never broke the above the knee is bad skirt rule until I officially left.  Here the cover of  a brochure of what the Watchtower Society would like good witnesses to wear:

Take note, the women and the girl in the picture are both wearing skirts to their shins.  I detest skirts that length.  When I was a Witness and a Pioneer, I lived in below the knee pencil skirts.  I wore them everyday to work because I would preach after work, and I had no time to go home and change. I had to make 70 hours of preaching every month, no time for slacks!  At our meetings in was below the knew skirts, and I often wore blazers or cardigan sweaters.  Also high heel shoes were a must!  If I wasn't wearing heels, a nice witness boy would never ask me out.  

Towards the end of my stint as a Witness, when I  didn't care about the stupid dress and grooming rules anymore, I brought a few fit and flare dresses that were above the knee and I wore these dresses with flats.  I think the dresses were cute and comfortable, I'm sure I was on the rumor mill for the congregation because my knees showed.

Yeah, so my knees showed today.  And I had school sprit, another witness no-no.  Oh well. 
 I broke the short skirt rule shown here: