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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 313822" data-attributes="member: 1061">There are still dress code standards @ public schools. Some are far more lenient than others.When I was in school (80's - early 90's), there was a written dress code published in the student hand book that every student and parent had to sign off on each year. It was conservative also. My mother remembered having to fight to be able to wear jeans at the same school in the 70's. For us, it was shorts. There was nothing published about wearing shorts to school. It was kind of an unwritten rule that you could only wear shorts @ the beginning and end of the school year, during the months of August and May. They would include over the morning announcements when it was okay to start wearing shorts.During my senior year, the "skort" became popular with girls. For lack of a better fashion term, it was a combo skirt/short and was somewhat dressy. The girls got away with wearing it because they classified it as a skirt. Several of us decided to fight The Man, and we all wore shorts to school one day. They were nice shorts, and we wore button down shirts with them. We didn't even make it to our first class of the day before we were told to go home to change. We refused and were suspended. We caused a rebellion, and because there was nothing published, everyone started wearing shorts. The school responded by updating the dress code for shorts for the next school year and it has stood ever since.We couldn't wear sweatpants, unless it was a goofy school spirit day (wear sweatpants, pajamas, etc). No hats of any kind, ever. Not even after school hours, like @ basketball games. No student could wear a hat @ a school function. No open-toed shoes. I'm pretty sure most of this stuff still stands today.</blockquote>

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