China's civil servants ordered to wear stinky rubber sandals

[Taro Toporific]

Civil servants ordered to dress properly
Xinhua, 2005-08-02 13:40...In a bid to burnish the public image of the Beijing's civil servants before the 2008 Olympic Games female government clerks wearing tan [sic] top are barred from entering office buildings of the Haidian District.
... shoulder-strape [sic] blouses have become vogue among young Chinese women in this hot summer season, bare feet in sandals are also highly visible among the public, Liu maintained that such behaviors, incompatible with public servants' capacity at office, have constituted disrespect to citizens they serve....
"It's obvious to notice the gap between Chinese civil servants and their counterparts in Japan.......more....

New role model....

[American Oyaji]

Ive wondered about this for a while, what does [sic] mean?

[Taro Toporific]

Ive wondered about this for a while, what does [sic] mean?

It's the way newspapers quote mistakes from a baka source.

sic
Thus]
http://www.answers.com/sic

[emperor]

sic
ill; diabolical...
"yo nigger! we be doin some sic shit up in here!"

[Ebonic sīc.]

[Somerandomgaijin]

[jingai]

Scholars say the reason behind the careless dressing for civil servants in China lies in the outdated idea that too much attention on the appearance for public servants is "simply decadent."

Yeah, right.

[American Oyaji]

Taro et all, thanks for clearing that up for me.

And yeah. That [sic] was definitely needed.

I was wondering about tan tops. I thought they looked nude or something.