Oct
08

Sidedoor: Dress Coded

If “clothes make the man,” then school dress codes can help make (or break) the girl—and her reputation.

Graphic showing girls fashions

Dress codes for school girls designed to impose propriety have been around a long time: from the days of knee-length gym bloomers and miniskirts being measured with rulers, to prohibitions against exposed shoulders or yoga pants. While the specifics of what girls can wear to school have changed…the purpose of the dress codes have not.

Cover yourself up (only if you’re female) and listen to Dress Coded.

For more, visit the live premier of the National Museum of American History’s new exhibition, Girlhood (It’s Complicated), October 8, at 7:00 p.m.

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Posted: 8 October 2020
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Jessica Sadeq has worked in the Central Office of Public Affairs since June 2007. She is the Marketing Manager for the Office of Communications and External Affairs.