Dress codes

[TRIFORCE89]

But still - are they gonna make it illegal for a girl to wear pants to school? Come on.

Uhh.... that's not cross-dressing. They sell pants in the woman's department at clothing stores. Won't find skirts and dresses in the men's section though.

Masks I can see. You want to see who is in the school for security purposes.
Fake weapons? Yep. Some look real and you don't want to cause a scare.

Cross-dressing, uhhh... I dunno. Depends how it's handled. If done in jest (a dude dressing up as a grandmother or Susan Boyle for example), fine. But if it's done to be sexual in some way, then no.

 

[Melody]

....yeah....like any guy in his right mind is going to try to dress as sexily as a woman can. XD

But, when I was talking about the pants, I was making fun of the double standard. You'd think that if women could have pants, men could have dresses and skirts. XD

But anyways, yeah. I do believe the context in which a person is dressing counts for a lot. That is what dress codes should be based on. Not arbitrary banning of entire styles of dress.

 

[sims796]

Triforce is the smartest one in this thread ever.

No, it isn't exactly a double standard, more along the line of what society is used too. For a man to wear a dress in today's society in unacceptable. Which is why they aren't sold around here. Skirts are for females, unless you live in Scotland. Which is not America.

However, a man has every right to wear a skirt (unless it violates a dress code, in which case he still has a right, just not around that institution). But we are talking about a school here. Skirt wearing males may cause an uproar, of sorts. It's distracting, it's needlessly provocative, it's somewhat annoying unecessary.

But most importantly, it's sexist. Or, at the very least, can be seen as such. THAT is why they couldn't cross dress at your school. It may be offensive to some, at least that is what they think, so better to stamp it out ahead of time.

 

[Idiot!]

We wear uniform. The stupid rule says that one has to wear double layers with a freaking tie for both males and females. It's just that it is very hot here. I do hate the silly crossdressing rule. I am stuck with impractical skirts. Pants are so much better. The best, actually. Only God knows why girls love skirts, high heels, piercings, super tight clothes etc.

The time modern women first wore pants is WW1, IIRC, because the women have to replace men in factories, mining, etc. Since then, it is okay for women to wear pants. More and more do it, and society accepts it. Point here is, so long as a change is persistent, people has to adapt to and accept it. It's the same case as women voters. Sadly, there's no such major event where it is acceptable for men to wear skirts.

 

[Pokémon Ranger ✩ Moriarty]

It is a double-standard, though, isn't it? A girl can dress as a boy and not receive any odd looks, but it isn't the same the other way around.

This is pretty much what I think of the matter. Girls go around now wearing 'men's clothes' in the form of jeans, tee-shirts (hell, half of my tee-shirts are men's teeshirts because women's ones don't come with the comic book characters I like on them >_<), boots, etc., but the second a man wears anything remotely feminine his sexuality and mental health are challenged.

On the flip side of the coin, our school uniform (propah British school uniform with blazers and ties and whathaveyou) thankfully allowed us girlies to wear skirts or trousers, but I have several female friends who went to schools where they were not allowed to wear trousers, even in winter. It were a wee bit bizarre. o.0

 

[FlyingSquirrel]

Man i have to wear a school uniform, dark blue shirt and jeans that cost over 200 dollars....

 

[Blue Nocturne]

I dont mind my schools uniform, it looks pretty good. Its a blue blazer with light blue piping and a pretty awesome tie.

But the teachers go over the top with enforcing it. If your tie is less that four stripes long, they will not stop until it is fixed, you cannot have anything other than a black bag (logos and stuff is fine though, within reason), if you have a coloured tag or lacing on shoes, you will have to colour it in black (with polish or something). Shirt tucked in ect.

But some teachers are so obsessed with uniform, that it cuts into the lesson and just wastes time. Once a teacher wasted almost an entire 50 minute lesson going over uniform with someone he knows wont fix it. He got a 45 min detention for it. They have no reason to inforce the rule, and im sure half the staff question how far the enforcements go themselves.

Who cares if my bag is blue? Does it impede my learning in any way? To hell it does, it has nothing to do with learning, which is all i am at school to do.
Does it distract anyone? No.
Is it a fashion statement? No, and does it matter if it was? What effect does that have? A blue bag doesn't cause a riot any more than a black bag could. What does a fashion statement mean in school? No one cares because the only time anyone sees eachothers bags is outside the lesson, and even then no one cares who has what bag.


Its social nannying at its finest, i can just imagine some nasal-voiced councilman saying "Its to protect kids who might not have access to the latest bag or shoes."
As always, mr. councilman, you misinterpret teenagers, we certainly dont care what bag everyone has, especially not the one people bring to school. No one cares because everyone is so depressed because of the boring lessons spent dealing with it.

 

[SonicThrust]

Although I definitely complained about it at the time, my high school uniform wasn't that bad. Just a polo shirt and dress pants really.

Now for Halloween, cross-dressing should definitely be allowed, and it was at my high school. I distinctly remember a guy showing up in a miniskirt one year. Note: I went to a Catholic High School. But really having a specific rule that 'cross-dressing' on Halloween is not allowed is a bit ridiculous since it's obviously only aimed at guys. If a girl showed up dressed as a male character from an anime, for example, I doubt the rule would be enforced.

 

[Vigilante]

Dress codes are there for a reason. I mean, without them, people would probably being showing a little too much.

Also, I could understand the cross dressing one. 'Cause, it was a spirit event at our school(dressing up as the opposite gender) and a kid got sent to the ER, because the Seniors thought he was a "fag" and beat him up.