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Male train drivers in Sweden have up with a novel way of cool in the summer heat after their company the of shorts. The men are instead skirts to work as they do not on the list of banned clothing that forms the uniform code for rail staff. The drivers' employers, the transportation company Arriva, instilled the ban on shorts after it over operations in January. Drivers had previously them for years when conditions got hot in the summer. The mercury in the drivers' cabin can 35 degrees, which is ten degrees above what the World Health Organisation to be a comfortable working environment.

Arriva's communications manager Tomas Hedenius a local newspaper that the company did not men wearing skirts. He said: "Our is that one should look decent and proper when Arriva and the present uniforms do that. If the man wants to a skirt, then that is OK." He added: "To tell them to do something else would be discrimination." Driver Martin Akersten said his passengers didn't to have any problems with his uniform. He said: “Of course people at you a little when you are on the platform, but you just have to up with it….So far no-one has said anything." He added: "I don't mind as it's more about comfort." Arriva is to its dress code again later this year.