Style Theory: School Dress Codes Will RUIN Your Life!

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Dress codes kind of suck, don’t they? Sure, they allow us to express individuality and show off cute school outfits in grwm videos on YouTube. But, they also come with annoying rules that cause many students to get suspended! So with the last day of school approaching, we wanted to break down WHY dress codes don’t work. But more importantly we’ll figure out HOW dress codes are impacting society in a negative way.
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[angrynoodletwentyfive]

I knew a girl who got sent to the office for "bleaching her hair" she had naturally bleach blonde hair and had literally never been seen with any other color of hair and had gone to that school disticet since kindergarten

[haunajoe]

honestly its impressive that matpat still kept his png science man holding clipboard with all these years

[Lissymcb]

My school doesn’t allow tank tops, doesn’t allow “short” shorts/skirts, and you can’t show any midrif. The school-issued cheer uniforms has tank tops, super short skirt, and shows a ton of midrif.

[backwardsangels]

I have a large chest and have had to worry about being dress coded constantly. When I was in 5th grade I was told to cover up because my bra strap was showing. I was wearing a dark green shirt and the outline was barely visible. Plus, the teacher was pretty far away from me so she was actively looking at my chest at 11 years old. Grown adults really need to stop staring at children's body's, girl, boy, doesn't matter.

[cecespizzah]

I vividly remember my sisters (who have much thicker hair than I) get dress coded for their HAIR. Saying their curls were too “unprofessional.” I also go dress coded for distracting male teachers AND students while wearing a long sleeved black shirt. Apparently it wasn’t the clothing item that was the problem…it was me. Apparently my body was the problem and I was encouraged to wear more layers of clothing/hoodies to cover up so my “parts” so to speak wouldn’t show as much.

[soudont]

i had a girl in my class dress coded for “being able to see her bra”. she was wearing a long sleeve shirt with a neckline up to her neck. there was a light outline of the padding. it was in no way distracting and absolutely ridiculous, it left literally everything up to imagination

[EdieBird]

It also doesn't help that many dress codes are entirely open to interpretation.

A friend's 8-year-old daughter got dress coded a couple of weeks ago. Two teachers said her outfit was "inappropriate" (no specifics offered), while her regular teacher and the principal said it was fine.

The outfit in question was a charming blue floral romper that hit just above her knees, covered her chest, and had fairly thick spaghetti straps topped with bows. I've seen more scandalous outfits in a Southern Baptist church. She looked...like an 8-year-old girl.

[Heunm]

Them saying dress codes support individual expression while they limit how you can express yourself is completely absurd

[MH-jncm]

My junior year, a girl was coded for her shirt being slightly cropped, and the next day, almost everyone wore a crop top to protest. And we had multiple students conduct surveys that show that girls, especially plus-sized girls, got coded much more often than any boys

[Halfendymion]

My middle school forced us to only wear clothes that are a solid color, because apparently having a shirt or pants or a jacket with more than one color on it is too distracting.

[everyones-a-cryptic]

I once got dresscoded in middle school for wearing my school's PE shorts. On the first day of 6th grade I got coded for wearing a blue shirt with a denim skirt because more than one blue item was considered "gang affiliation." They can genuinely just be so nonsensical.

[Leonagraphy]

I’m glad matpat finally covered this topic, and in such detail. It’s seriously unfair what students have to go through just to stay in class. I’ve heard horror stories from so many friends about being forced to switch out clothing in front of school staff, among other things.

[paolacarrera]

I feel like schools should’ve stressed about hygiene way more than clothes. Kids PURPOSELY skipping out on deodorant BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY DID NOT SMELL was more distracting than some of the “inappropriate” clothing.

[crystalBall]

In high school I was a modest student, always covered up and got dress coded for having two stripes of blue in the front of my hair. A teacher tried to make me go to the cosmetology class and get it dyed back to a "natural" color ... a month after i did it. I told her absolutely not and if it was a problem someone should have said something weeks ago. 🙄

[aly]

I remember wearing a cute maroon dress back in High school that was above the knees. Almost got written up for wearing something "inappropriate" but when I pointed out why was my dress wrong but the cheerleaders and dance team dress codes were basically booty skirts.

[maxis_eats_soap]

My last school disapproved any crop-tops or make-up excluding light LIGHT make-up because "we should focus on our studies and not on our looks" so one day our whole class including boys came in with short skirts, crop-tops and full make-up. Let's just say our sterotypical teacher wasn't happy

[laurelelizabeth]

It's very unfair. I was a National Merit Scholar. Two kids made a slap bet over whether I could get dress coded even if I TRIED because it seemed like certain kids were targeted. It took me about five months and a lot of effort before my spaghetti strap tank top with neon bra straps sticking out and very short shorts that I wore that final day did the job! I was about three days from graduating! Tons of kids in my grade were in on this, and the other choir kids cheered when I came back in itchy sweatpants and a neon green t-shirt. I still didn't get detention.

[Mimmers]

I was dresscoded once because my “chest was distracting the teachers and students” I was wearing a blouse buttoned all the way, a shin length skirt and a cardigan. I was 14 and already embarrassed enough that I had a EU 70F cup.

[In_TheMoonlight]

Never going to get over how as a FIRST GRADER I was already stressing about whether my tank top straps were too narrow. Like dude, a 6-year-old wearing spaghetti straps should not be distracting to anybody!!!

[Syne]

I go to school in a german gymnasium and as long as our clothes aren’t showing the “private areas” we are allowed to wear whatever we want (except hats for some reason). It doesn’t change our learning in any way and the students are extremely peaceful for the most part. Most of the teachers are even chill enough to just let uns get up in the middle of class to go to the toilet without saying anything. That said there are some weird rules as well. For example we are not allowed to sit on the floor during the breaks.