GOP Priorities

As recently as 2021, the dress code allowed women to wear “dresses or skirts or slacks worn with a blazer or sweater and appropriate dress shoes or boots.” The newly-adopted house rules now state proper attire for women consists of “jackets worn with dresses, skirts, or slacks, and dress shoes or boots.”

The change was largely-backed by GOP lawmakers in the Missouri House, particularly two female legislators. Rep. Ann Kelley (R-Lamar) proposed the change on the floor Wednesday. Rep. Brenda Shields (R-St. Joseph) offered an amendment to classify jackets as blazers or cardigans.

  Fox

The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming the amendment failed to pass, because the only thing I can see as the intention of the dress code rule itself is dropping the allowance of sweaters. (And maybe blazers, but are they not normally considered jackets?) I'm surprised women are allowed to wear slacks.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.