So, today at school is one of the formal dress days, which really really sucks in my opinion.
First off, Girls pretty much get to wear anything they want, as long as it is not too slutty looking, and isn’t jeans.
Guys however, have to wear exactly this.
Long sleeved button up shirt, tie, black dress shoes, black socks, and a nice looking belt. AND a jacket if you want.
What do you think about this, and how do you think this came to be?
-Miles
Letter of complaint and if that fails a small scale strike/ riot(not a violent one). Get every body to write a letter.
Next time, get all the guys to dress “like girls” in protest. 
Why would you wear a jacket? Doesn’t it feel warm like spring there? All that stuffy clothing must be uncomfortable. Ties are evil.
What happens if you don’t follow the dress code?
Welcome to the real world. That is the purpose of the lesson the school is teaching you: the need to be able to fit in with irrational social codes, because nearly all social codes are irrational, but without them life would be chaotic.
I am sure that the girls have a different set of requirements that you do not know about. We never had a day at school where we had to dress up…do you go to a private school?
I think it is a minor annoyance in the life of a young man who is probably well off enough to have time to give a crap about it.
It came about because historically men, not women, have served in the armed forces and their civilian dress mimics the military need to strip them of their individuality. It doesn’t hurt the interests of business if their workers, blue and white collar, walk in lock step.
yes, it’s like 85 here right now.
If we don’t we get detention 
You even get detention if you just wear your normal school uniform?
We don’t have a normal uniform.
Our detentions are on Saturday, are from 8 to 12, and consist of picking u trash 
Schools don’t need to support stupid social codes.
Say you’re gender neutral and that the boy’s dress code dosn’t apply to you.
But I’m not 
does the super indendent have a spoiled duaghter?
I didn’t say they did. But they do need to teach people the ability to comply with social codes - whatever those social codes may be. Back to my earlier reference in a different thread to Robert Heinlein and eating cake with a fork.
It’s not what the code is; it’s the ability of a mature and socially aware human being to see past the obvious absurdity of the code itself to the less obvious fact that manners, fashions, styles and rituals are all part of what allows us to rub along together as a society.
You wouldn’t wear a three pieces suit, collar and tie to a punk rock gig; you wouldn’t wear bondage trousers and studded leather to an interview for a job as a receptionist at a posh hotel.
A huge part of the world’s population has no access to schooling at all. In other parts of the world, kids walk miles barefoot to school as well as having to work almost full time on their parents’ farms. In my own country people fought and died for the right to universal schooling. It’s a pity that in the modern affluent west, some kids are unhappy at what their schools sometimes ask them to wear.
Welcome to society, this is the norm for all social functions. Trust me when you can get away with wearing the same suit or tuxedo to all formal events while women you know feel pressure to always be in something new you’ll appreciate it.
And Mike, I did actually wear a dinner jacket, bow-tie and frilled dress shirt to a Marilyn Manson gig just before Christmas. (not quite punk but close enough). Subverting supposedly open-minded people amuses me.
I’m all for following social codes to preserve society, however, having grown up in a hotter than hot climate (Phoenix, AZ), I think it’s completely ridiculous to follow dress codes that were obviously created in colder climates. 85F in San Diego is too nice and warm to enforce wearing long sleeves and a tie all day at school. Also, this is California–I would bet that even most white-collar male workers don’t wear ties to work.
Because this is what happens when you are allowed to dress yourself…
Had you all dressed in a decent and un-distracting way then you wouldn’t be required to adhere to a dress code.
Even though you yourself may have dressed properly I bet you know a lot of kids who didn’t.
We are all having to live with rules that had to be created because of a few bad apples.
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I know that most of the world has sub-standard schooling and all but what I’m saying is, whereas wearing a Superman outfit to a job interview for a company that has a strange distaste for anyone who dresses (casualy or profesionaly) as Superman isn’t something most would do, dressing in semi-formal trousers and a neat shirt to Formal Day at school shouldn’t be wrong.
That being said… I don’t see it as much of a big deal. I actually like wearing formal suits and dresses for the most part… What they should stop restricting is cross-dressing in schools. But that’s for another thread.
What exactly is wrong with that?
I can understand how people from a different generation might think clothes of a newer/older generation are not modest, absurd, stupid, ugly, etc. but keep an open mind… How people dress is part of who they are and how they express themselves. Saggy pants aren’t “bad” and therefor shouldn’t be a reason for stupid rules.