I feel like embarrassment is my middle name because I have found myself in lots of embarrassing situations. When it comes to clothing, I have had my fair share of embarrassing, ridiculous and revealing. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures to show because taking pictures is the last thing you do during some of these moments.
I am a uniform personnel but I do not dress to work in my full uniform. I prefer to wear my white vest over my uniform trousers to work then dress completely once at work.
It happened that on this particular day, I wore my white vest inside out from my house to work and I boarded public transport. I noticed people were stealing glances at me but it never occurred to me to check what I was wearing. Not until I got to the office did a colleague point it out. I felt really embarrassed that I dressed that way as an officer to work.
Another embarrassing thing that happened to me also has to do with my uniform. I love my trousers a little tight so I'll look smarter. It so happened that the day I wore the tight uniform was the day the Commandant decided to drill us on parade. The uniform was tight so I couldn't move my legs up as required for the left and right commands. The parade commander called me out and asked me to raise my legs shouting the orders "Legs up, Legs up, shoulder level, Legs up". I had no choice than to raise the legs to the required level and the next thing I heard was a splitting sound behind. Everyone burst out into laughter. The parade commander afterwards told me that he intentionally did that to use me as a warning to female officers who sew tight uniforms.
This is a good ridiculous because the clothing was worn for a purpose. In the university there is something that happens during Student union week and that is rag day. It is a day for students to dress up in rags. They carry a metal tin with coins inside and go around begging for money from people. It is a fun time for students and the money collected is meant for charity. On that day, I wore an afro on my head, a red vest worn inside out with a black bra worn on the vest. My trousers had one leg longer than the other with panties on. It was a long time ago and I have lost the pictures but that ranks as the most ridiculous thing I've ever worn.
I had just collected the Ankara gown from my tailor and decided to wear it to church. It was a short ankara ball gown. You can Google to get an idea of what it looks like. The gown was a little above my knees and the only thing I had under was my panties, no tights. All was going well until I needed to cross the road. I had successfully crossed the first lane and was in the middle of the road waiting to cross the second lane but the cars were splitting by and the air they left behind messed with the lower part of my gown raising it above waist level.
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I struggled to hold the gown down with my hands but did a poor job as my legs and inner wear were on display. I felt so naked on the road and that was the last time I wore the gown 😀
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