Daphne Bramham: Just quit telling women what to wear

Oh boy. Women in the Canadian armed forces can now sport ponytails instead of buns and braids. They can wear flat shoes instead of pumps or oxfords. And (gasp) they can throw away their “nylons.”
Yes, nylons. I hadn’t heard that word for at a couple of decades. But I guess it would be undignified for the men who run the military to say pantyhose.
The reason for the change is that the men at the top want women to have “greater control over personal appearance” which,