My husband was running mics during the WT study once when it was probably 95 degrees outside and felt like 150 degrees in the hall. So, he took off his suit jacket so he wouldn't drown in his own sweat. He still had a dress shirt and tie on, but the PO went and asked someone else to take over for my husband because he wasn't wearing his jacket! He didn't even start by asking him if he had a jacket and if he could put it on. The other brother just came up and took over. I always thought the strict dress code was rediculous. When its 95 degrees and humid, who in their right minds would really want to dress in a suit to go door to door? As for me, some of my most vivid memories of field service are of me wondering if I'll ever get the feeling back in my legs and feet after being in service in 0 degree weather for 2 1/2 hours, because HEAVEN FORBID a sister would wear warm slacks in service when its absolutely freezing outside! Surely the householders (who don't want to stand there in the doorway letting out their nice inside warmth anyway) would be totally turned off to "the truth" if they saw women wearing slacks!!!
I remember doing "field watch" at Yankee Stadium in the early '90s before we started going to Nassau Colliseum. If it was 90 degrees in the stands, it was 110 on the field. We could not take our jackets off. I always thought this was extremely impractical, if not unsafe.
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