American Voices

The Dress-Code Crackdown

September 5, 2001 | ISSUE 37•31

Across the U.S., high schools are banning low-rise jeans, midriff-baring tops, and other skimpy articles of clothing. What do you think about the fashion crackdown?

  • What I don't get is the super-low jeans where the thong straps peek out above the waistline. Why aren't those required?

    Paul Cooper
    Plumber

  • Girls that young should not be wearing sexy outfits in school. I say dress them all in plaid skirts and knee-high stockings.

    Nelson Wollersheim
    Bond Trader

  • I think girls who violate dress codes should be suspended and picked up from school by their mothers' boyfriends.

    Lisa Hausherr
    Social Worker

  • The way the kids dress these days, it's becoming almost impossible to tell the sluts from the regular girls.

    Tom Atack
    Tom Atack

  • Thank God for Maury Povich. He's doing his part by sending all those out-of-control, too-sexy teens to boot camp.

    Michael Keller
    Systems Analyst

  • I don't know. I think some of those crotchless hot pants they sell in the JCPenney children's department are kind of cute.

    Meredith Wakefield
    Legal Secretary

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