(This article is written towards girls not guys)
To start off this article I would like to tell you what our dress code is. Our shirts have to be two fingers wide, which means no spaghetti straps. This is fine with me because I don’t think you should show your shoulders in school. I understand wearing tank tops in the summer because it is hot, but not in school. I think the shirts that hang off your shoulder are fine to wear as long as you have a tank top two fingers wide on your shoulder.
Our shorts have to be longer than our fingers when we put our hands down by our side. I agree with that because no one wants to see any parts of someone that shouldn’t be shown. I do have to say that it is very hard to find shorts that are long enough to wear. Companies make shorts so short that they aren’t appropriate for school, which is ridiculous.
At our school we aren’t aloud to wear cutoffs (which are shirts that are cut down the sides). I think we should be allowed to wear them for certain things. For example, most girls like to wear them in volleyball because it is easier to move your arms. I think cutoffs should be allowed as long as you don’t show any skin.
We are also not allowed to wear spandex, which are basically tight shorts. I think we should be able to wear spandex as long as they are long enough. If you put your hand right under your waist and your spandex goes to where your hand ends, I think that they are long enough to wear. I do agree with not wearing them as school clothes but for sports, they would be great.
Our school has also recently banned leggings. We can only wear them if we cover up our bottoms with a long shirt or dress. It is so hard finding shirts that are long enough these days. It is even harder to find long dresses these days! I do understand that leggings are skin tight and not really appropriate for school, but when we wear leggings we aren’t showing anything bad. You can ask any girl from high school, and they will tell you that leggings are the most comfortable things you could ever wear. It’s so nice to wake up and slide leggings on instead of jumping up and down trying to get your jeans on right. I think leggings should be allowed at our school.
I don’t think our school dress code is a bad thing; it does have some good points. They just don’t understand how hard it is to find cute clothes long enough to cover up or just to wear.