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My school's dress code, used to be kinda strict, in terms of wearing tanks tops and short skirts and shorts and guys wearing earrings. Since we have a new principal, the dress codes have become pretty lax and people can wear things they never used to before.

I don't really have a problem with dress codes except when it comes to piercings and hair.

My grammar school had a rule against girls having more than two piercings in each ear, and that's slightly understandable because the kids' ages ranged between 6-14, so it's like what 14 year old would walk around with a pierced nose and tongue?

But I'm glad my high school doesn't have restrictions against piercings and tats and hair dye, and I do realize that most of the professional world frowns upon facial piercings and wacky hair colors, but things are starting to become more liberal today, so some things like nose piercings are becoming more acceptable. I don't think dressing like a skank will ever become acceptable however. :]

`Pretty much the same here.

Except that everyone knows it by heart because every year, in the first week of the year, and then again in the first week back after winter break, all the school does is go back over the rules and the dress code and the cell phone policy and all that crap that isn't enforced and nobody cares about.

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Hate my dress code. Always a white or red shirt with stupid navy bottoms and ALWAYS closed-toe shoes. It's crap alright. stressed

Ive never gotten in trouble for earing dress code!
I usually wear jeans, a shirt, a jacket necklaces, bracelets, shoes, and hair ribbons. so yeah, That dosent violate it.

I need GOLD.

At my junior high (Which I finished and am going to high school) we're not supposed to wear head gear in the school. But by the middle of the year, I'm normally wearing bandanas...

I'd also like to state the difference between school uniforms and schoold dress codes.
Uniforms involve mandatory clothing that you must where. So having to wear a white shirt and black bottoms is a unform. (There was once one in my elementry school, which didn't even last a year. People just stopped, then more and more until the announcement came saying that they were lifting the uniform)
Dress codes are ban certain clothing, not list mandatory clothing. It is normally to keep inappropriate clothing out(like reavealing stuff and swearing text...). I agree with them, but not uniforms. Of course sometimes I get pissed over some rules.
In my middle school, you could wear camisoles, but you're shoulders had to be coverd...so a half sweater....and you couldn't have any cleavage showing.

we had dress codes but the only time i've ever seen them enforced is the FCUK shirt..one of my teachers made a kid turn it inside out but that was back in junior high, in high school we got away with anything. I mean we even had kids coming in on Halloween dressed as a condom, v****a, and a p***s >.> and chasing each other down the hallways yelling at the condom to stop cuz they need protection.. rofl but no one stopped that...the teachers were the only one with an enforced dress code ironically XD