Follow Your Fellow Dress Code

So it's summer time, that means heat, which means shorts, and that means that I have been seeing a ton of things on social media sites about girls wearing immodest clothing. Such as:

"When you send a girl home from school because her shorts or too short, or her clothing is immodest, you are telling her that hiding her body is more important than her education. You are telling her that making sure the boys have a distraction-free learning environment is more important than her education. In a way, you’re telling her that the boys are more entitled to an education than she is, and that isn’t acceptable."

My first opinion of this post was maybe... but the more I think about it, the more I shake my head and roll my eyes. Really?

Wearing shorts that are too short for a schools dress code is in fact breaking the rules, and if a boy were to wear shorts that were to short then he would be punished as well. This is not an attack on a girls education. This is not an attack at all. It is merely an enforcement of rules.

I will say, however, that I can understand the resentment some girls have when it comes to gym class. The rule that cut off shirts cannot be warn makes complete sense until a guy wears them. Men are allowed to wear cut off shirts but women aren't? That is not right. I don't care if "life isn't fair" I don't want to see a man's nipples, because, frankly, I find that awkward. (I mean what do you look at? Eye contact, right? Well eye contact can only last so long before it becomes awkward...and a man's chest is distracting.) At least when a girl wears a cut off shirt she is covering herself with a sports bra so it's less distracting.

Either way I have not seen a girl sent home because she was dressed "immodestly" but if this is in fact the case then I do find it unacceptable that anyone were to be sent home for this. It is a disappointment that the school would not have an extra pair of pants or extra shirts instead of sending a child away from their right to education.

Girls wearing short shorts are not the only problem I have heard of; I have also heard of immodest prom dresses. Dresses that were too short or too revealing for bustier girls. There must be some consideration for long legged women or busty women. There are different shapes and not every dress is made for every shape, and my goodness is it hard to find a flattering dress, that is modest, because hardly any dress is created that way

In truth, all clothing can be immodest, it depends on how a person wears the article of clothing, and who the person is and what their body type is. There are so many factors that go into the "immodest" category. What should truly matter is how a person feels in the clothes they wear (spoken like a true girl) and how they act. We should keep in mind how we dress but that should not be the basis of our concerns. Our main concerns should be how we act towards people, because when we aren't polite then that is where indecency starts.