To think that this 6th Form Dress Code is wrong.

[alistron1]

DD1's 6th Form has a strict dress code of business/office wear. They have to look smart - which is fine.

This week it's been really hot, yesterday DD1 wore 'bare legs' with her very modest skirt suit. She got told off - initially for wearing flesh coloured tights (tights should be black) and was referred to the dress code which she brought home for me to read.

It contains this line:

"This is a mixed environment with particular implications for the way in which female students should dress."

AIBU to complain about this statement?

[PersonOfInterest]

a zombie thread but I can still find that wording if I google it.

I absolutely have the rage that young women in an education establishment are being instructed to dress to avoid offending other religions.

WTAF?

[CatCushion]

DD's sixth form has a similar uniform policy, and there are people of various faiths there. The wording of their dress code is not offensive, and allows for 'tan' tights. It hadn't occurred to me before, I wonder whether they are allowed to have bare legs or not. I hated wearing tights at that age. I still do, come to that.

[SauvignonBlanche]

I read 9 pages before realising it was a zombie thread.

[duhgldiuhfdsli]

The school in question has a watered down form of the same words in this year's sixth form dress code. The religious influence is still, one suspects, present: "This is a mixed environment so we ask students to dress modestly", but everything that is mentioned after that (cleavage, midriffs, skirts) clearly only applies to women. And the word "modesty" is a bit of a dog whistle, I suspect.

[SquirrelWearingATrilby]

So all boys/men are rabid animals and just need a sniff of female flesh to become rapists?

Good lord. How do these men folk control their animal urges in summer walking around towns with girls/women in summer dresses no tights and worse, on the beach in bikinis

Best get those table legs covered up, we're roaring back to the Victorian times.

[ElephantsNeverForgive]

I'm sure DDs DFs with that sort of dress code wear nice summer dresses and bare legs when warm.

DDs dress code is more relaxed school uniform than business and she did wear tights the first week when it was very warm here.

[ElephantsNeverForgive]

Didn't

[ElephantsNeverForgive]

And as everyone says the rules are sexist twaddle.

Certain teachers obsessing about skirt length is the one that annoys me. "Stop looking at teen girls legs and go and plan a fucking lesson"

[sashh]

I'd ask exactly what the implications are because you can't work that out, unless they mean their establishment is not safe for female students in which case you would like to see their safe guarding policy.

[moxon]

Not to encourage the further unzombie-ing of this thread, but sauvignon you made me giggle. Sympathies!

[QueenTilly]

An update from a student there? This policy was still an issue last April, I think.