Paper Trails
By Carrie Rengers
Politeness Brings Pants
Because his supervisor asked politely, Dale Miller has agreed to quit wearing women’s clothing to his job at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.”I didn’t want to cause the university any problems,” says Miller, the university’s manager of networks and technical services who also teaches a database class.After a recent “Paper Trails” picture showed Miller in his preferred skirt and heels and two TV reports then featured him, Miller says the university was deluged with calls. Some financial supporters threatened to quit donating to the school.”There are always going to be those people who are close-minded,” Miller says. “The ones who have the narrowest views are the ones who make the loudest noise.”
If men in heels and hose ever become universally acceptable, Miller says he’ll put them back on for work, too. But he doesn’t see that day coming soon in Arkansas.
“I figure we’ll be the last to do anything — we always are.”
Miller still will wear what he wants outside of work, which brings up a question which went unansewered in the first “Paper Trails” item. Readers want to know whether Miller prefers boxers, briefs, or panties.
“It can be any,” Miller says. “Actually, I like thongs. They’re comfortable once you get used to them.”
Miller also corrects a television report that says he wears pantyhose.
“If we’re going to get into the underwear business, we’re going to have to get it right,” he says. For the record, he usually wears thigh-highs or stockings and garter belts.