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Male fashion for mail men

By Times Wires
In print: Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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Men's fashion

Man attempts to skirt postal uniform policy

If Dean Peterson gets his way, male mail carriers will be able to add unbifurcated garments to their uniform options. Which just means kilts. "This is important to me," Peterson, of Lacey, Wash., told the Boston Globe. "I just want to be comfortable. I just want the option." He wants that option a lot, too. He spent his family's $1,800 economic stimulus rebate on a campaign ahead of this week's letter carrier convention in Boston. "Please open your hearts — and inseams — for an option in mail carrier comfort," he asked in a mailing sent to 1,000 letter carriers. Count Paul Lunde of Oregon among his supporters. Lunde already wears a kilt to work on days he thinks he can get away with it, because he likes to show off his ancestry. "Occasionally there are people who appear to be offended," said Lunde. "I say, 'Show me a picture of Jesus in slacks, and I'll consider it.' "

Cover your tail in two cities

• Rationalizing that exposed underwear is the reason major retailers are staying away from Lynnwood, Ill., village leaders have passed an ordinance imposing a $25 fine on anyone who shows three inches or more of underwear.

• The chief of police in Flint, Mich., has been asked by the ACLU to change a policy of stopping people and searching them when the only probable cause he has is exposed underwear. David Dicks says he will not. "I guess I'm expecting a lawsuit," he told the Detroit Free Press.

No hunting

Please don't shoot the animals

Ten members of the advocacy group OpenCarry.org toured Zoo Boise in Idaho on Saturday. OpenCarry.org advocates the right to openly carry handguns in public, and as such, they were packing heat. "Coming to the zoo was something we could do together, like any family would," said Carol Schultz of Nampa, who carries her holster on a heart-studded belt. The people at the gate didn't see them as "any family," though, and had to be persuaded that it was legal to carry unconcealed weapons. Alex Lundgren of Boise was also visiting the zoo Saturday and had a different viewpoint. "Legal and appropriate are two different things."

Update

Self-cleaning toilets

Seattle's multimillion-dollar self-cleaning rest rooms are still available on eBay, and with four days left, you could still be the first to bid the bargain price of $89,000. But that city's toilet travails will not stop Toronto from trying to make them work. Seattle found that drug users and prostitutes took them over. Toronto thinks it has a solution: charge $1. Also, the unit will alert security if someone is in there more than 15 minutes. So hurry up. Seattle says good luck, but it couldn't use that strategy because Washington has a law against charging for public toilets.

Compiled from Times wire services and other sources by staff writer Jim Webster, who can be reached at jwebster@sptimes.com.