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Post by al on Mar 7, 2019 11:53:47 GMT 10
Do/did you have to wear a school uniform? What's your opinion on them? Do you think it affects school culture? Has it affected how you dress otherwise?
Pick what most closely aligns with your experience and explain below.
If you've worn both uniforms and regular clothes to school, select both.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 12:05:05 GMT 10
I had a dress code that no one followed, no uniform though.
Personally I'm glad I didn't have a uniform. I like expressing myself through my clothes.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 7, 2019 12:37:27 GMT 10
I had to wear a uniform. I'll be honest, as much as I hated having to wear a uniform throughout my entire time in school, I can understand the reasons for school uniforms being enforced in the first place. They do generally improve the safety/well-being of students and uniforms also make it easier for teachers to identify students when out on school excursions. So, I guess I have a rather impartial viewpoint of uniforms overall.
Uniforms do have a pretty significant affect on the culture of a school. I can only speak from my own personal experience, but apart from there being a small LGBTI community, my high school never had any "cliques" so to speak. For instance, there was never an "Emo/Scene" clique when I started High School in Early 2012, and that's because everyone had to follow the dress code of the school. There were a few people who sported the "long hair" look though. Having to wear a uniform never had an influence on the type of clothes I would wear outside of school. There was nothing unusual about it, as it is what it is. Kids here in Australia have to wear uniforms while attending school and that has always been the case.
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Post by longaotian on Mar 7, 2019 17:13:04 GMT 10
Yes, I liked it. When I woke up at 6:30am on school mornings, the last thing I wanted to do was choose what clothes to wear. Best thing about having a uniform imo. 
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 21:07:20 GMT 10
In the mid-2000s, my school's dress code stated that trousers should always sit above the waist and that no hair gel is allowed, and the teachers tried to enforce it. It was a huge failure and no match for the low-rise jeans and spikey hair trend of the time. I felt like a dork for actually following it. And in my school, kids were forbidden from having facial hair. One day in Grade 10 in the middle of the year, my Science teacher rounded up anyone with so much as peach fuzz on their hair and forced them to go to the pharmacy down the street to buy shaving equipment (with his money) and forced them all to shave. When they came back to class with baby face everyone laughed. Sadly, the dress code was more of a source of humiliation than anything. I can't blame the teachers for not wanting to see 13 year old buttcracks though 
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 21:56:09 GMT 10
I just remembered in Grade 11 I did have a uniform! I was suicidal that school year, I think that says everything. It did teach me how to tie a tie though.
I still have the square-toed black shoe that was part of the uniform; you all don't know the fashion horrors I had to live through.
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Post by rainbow on Mar 7, 2019 21:58:08 GMT 10
I’m so glad that here in the US we don’t usually have to wear school uniforms. I can wear whatever is comfortable for me and it’s the best.
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Post by ★☆GäBBï☆★ on Mar 8, 2019 1:46:47 GMT 10
I've had both uniforms and no uniforms and there are pros and cons to both. Students do look a lot more orderly with uniforms, plus there's no need to pick what to wear.
It wasn't uncomfortable or anything for me and I pretty much lived in my uniform most of the day. Now I haven't had to wear a uniform in the past 3 years and I feel like I'm wearing the same clothes everyday My coursemates are a lot more slack without a real dress code to follow (of course there are certain rules about no revealing clothes etc), but generally people wear anything which doesn't exactly result in the best public image.
So I'd say overall I don't really care either way 
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 8, 2019 10:53:00 GMT 10
Yes, I liked it. When I woke up at 6:30am on school mornings, the last thing I wanted to do was choose what clothes to wear. Best thing about having a uniform imo. Lol, i'm sure picking what clothes to wear wouldn't be that much of an inconvenience. It's not as if it takes over 5 minutes to pick a T-Shirt.  And in my school, kids were forbidden from having facial hair. One day in Grade 10 in the middle of the year, my Science teacher rounded up anyone with so much as peach fuzz on their hair and forced them to go to the pharmacy down the street to buy shaving equipment (with his money) and forced them all to shave. When they came back to class with baby face everyone laughed. That's pretty harsh! My high school didn't forbid students from sporting facial hair, even though the dress code for wearing uniforms was strictly enforced.
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Mar 9, 2019 22:39:40 GMT 10
I was required to wear a uniform to all the schools I attended. There were exceptions though, as in a certain day during terms we had a thing as ‘free dress day’, essentially where you could choose to wear whatever you liked (within reason of course). These were usually for special occasions. I didn’t mind some of the uniforms I had to wear, but on the other hand some of them were horrible too.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 9, 2019 22:58:02 GMT 10
There were exceptions though, as in a certain day during terms we had a thing as ‘free dress day’, essentially where you could choose to wear whatever you liked (within reason of course). These were usually for special occasions. I didn’t mind some of the uniforms I had to wear, but on the other hand some of them were horrible too. Yep, my primary school used to do the same thing, except that they were known as "mufti days" up here. I always had a bit of a bad habit of forgetting about them and going to school in my uniform. 
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Post by prodanny288 on Mar 9, 2019 22:58:52 GMT 10
I’m so glad that here in the US we don’t usually have to wear school uniforms. I can wear whatever is comfortable for me and it’s the best. Yea, but don't private schools have uniforms? As far as I know, public schools in the US don't have to wear a school uniform.
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Post by rainbow on Mar 9, 2019 23:10:43 GMT 10
I’m so glad that here in the US we don’t usually have to wear school uniforms. I can wear whatever is comfortable for me and it’s the best. Yea, but don't private schools have uniforms? As far as I know, public schools in the US don't have to wear a school uniform. I haven't really been to a private school a lot so I can't really say. But public schools usually don't have a school uniform. I never had to wear one even though I went to a Christian school in Kindergarten, but we never had a uniform.
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Post by al on Mar 10, 2019 16:58:42 GMT 10
Some private schools in the US require a uniform but it's ultimately up to them. a lot of Catholic schools still do the plaid thing. The ones in my area that are more acedemic have a strict dress code which requires khakis and button down, but you can wear whatever brands or colors you want. I read recently that less than 10% of kids in the US attend private school.
My school district had a fairly lax dress code that was more of an issue in the warmer months, due to lack of a/c. The biggest issue was absolutely the shorts and I would but special Bermuda length ones for school. The acceptable tank top parameters were also annoying, as pretty much everyone made it up as they went. When it was big in the 00's to wear thongs or boxers coming out of your jeans, they made you cover it up. If you wore an offensive logo, they might make you put tape over it. I remember in 7th grade my team had some plain XL t-shirts you had to put on if you weren't covered enough.
Things erupted during my junior and senior years. I would attribute this somewhat to Tumblr ideology rising at the time, but many students and even teachers began questioning if the dress code was sexist, along with the outcry after girls began getting in trouble for wearing tight leggings and yoga pants. It is true that it was difficult to find acceptable, cool clothes when it was hot, and it some of the rules were unfairly targeting specific people. Girls with large chests were being told their wearing deep v-necks were inappropriate, whereas boys and smaller girls were free to wear them. Boys were wearing deeply cut tank tops where you could see their nipples, whereas girls were having issues with inch or two wide straps. Meanwhile boys were banned from wearing headbandsand bandanas, while girls continued to. While taking attendance, teachers one quarter were asked to do a dress code check, which they quickly found time consuming and pointless. The madness basically imploded by the end of my senior year and the dress code was all but dropped in the very hot last couple of weeks.
Regardless, I'm so happy I never had to wear a uniform. It kind of makes my skin crawl tbh. I remember some parents when I was little raving about not having to buy their kids many clothes thanks to private school uniforms. Even at like seven I thought that was so odd lol. One thing I have noticed about kids who wore one/had a strict dress code, is that they end up either obsessed with fashion, or completely oblivious, even once they started college. Like they would be so trendy, they wore only sweats, or they put the weirdest things together and were way too formal. Though that may also be preppy New England culture and probably wouldn't exist too far outside the US.
I don't know if clothing contributes to cliques or not. But my high school friends who came from Catholic middle school with the plaid shirts said it didn't matter. It will just end up being about the shoes, then maybe your taste in music, and as always, your personality. Apparently the emo scene was fairly strong at one of the high schools with the dress code back in the day. They just wore black chinos, black oxfords, and dyed their hair a "natural" black lol.
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