Too Much Skin?
The cheer squad at my alma mater, the University of Idaho, is embroiled in a minor controversy over uniforms.
At the first home football game, they debuted skimpy new outfits. Apparently, those were too risque for some fans, and by the next weekend the cheerleaders were clothed in burqa-like shorts and jerseys.
What do you think? Are the new uniforms too revealing?
I've seen worse at the grocery store, but certainly these uniforms are quite conservative when compared to most NFL cheer squads.
And I won't even mention Olympic Beach Volleyball.
Would you care if your adult daughter wore a uniform that showed too much skin?
Photos by Larry Johnson
At the first home football game, they debuted skimpy new outfits. Apparently, those were too risque for some fans, and by the next weekend the cheerleaders were clothed in burqa-like shorts and jerseys.
What do you think? Are the new uniforms too revealing?
I've seen worse at the grocery store, but certainly these uniforms are quite conservative when compared to most NFL cheer squads.
And I won't even mention Olympic Beach Volleyball.
Would you care if your adult daughter wore a uniform that showed too much skin?
Photos by Larry Johnson
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 11:33 AM
13 Comments:
Those look like standard middle of road college cheer outfits to me. I don't see anything wrong with them at all.
I'm liking the before picture better. It is definitely fairly mild actually.
Cheerleaders are supposed to show a little skin. Bathing suits show a lot more than those. I'd be fine if my daughter (if I ever get one) wore those.
I'm a Vandal and my biggest issue with it was that some of the girls were a bit heavy to be wearing those outfits. I don't mind what you weigh, but it was just bad, especially blown up on the jumbotron. Not to mention the outfits weren't representative of the Vandals, other than the white and pleather with yellow laces. They could show their pride a bit better and little less sluttier.
I don't think the new ones are that bad either. But if they were going to change them again, couldn't they have found some middle ground?
I'd have had to see what they looked like jumping around I guess.
unless they dress the male cheerleader in skin tight outfits keep the gals in cover ups.
I don't see anything wrong with the original uniforms, but taste is local.
I've always found outfits on cheerleaders to be cumbersome things.
Personally... I like the "After" picture better..
I'm a bit of an anomaly..
What I find "attractive" and what most of my friends in high school and college found "attractive" were very different...
It has nothing to do with the uniform: if my (in utero) daughter ended up a cheerleader, I'd be very depressed.
I wouldn't allow my daughter to be a cheerleader in the first place...
I like the "after" uniforms more, but it would've been better had they gotten fit (note: not skin-tight) shirts. Wouldn't it be difficult to do cartwheels and somersaults without the shirts going over the wearer's head?
Personally, though cheerleaders have come to be normally garbed in tight outfits with very little fabric, dressing them in more fabric would, I think, give cheerleaders' image a boost in the right direction.
I like the tops, it looks modest and comfortable.I can judge the bottoms cause I can't see them, but if they are just shorts then it's got my ok!
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