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Everyone was pretty emotional before, during, and after Gabrielle Giffords's farewell speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives today, including Speaker of the House John Boehner. But was he really crying about the departure of his colleague... or a lack of formality in legislators' business clothes? More »
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A young woman was recently barred from taking an exam at BYU-Idaho because an employee at the University testing center felt her pants were too tight. Now some Mormon bloggers are coming to her defense. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5866239&view=rss&microfeed=true The regime's "moral security plan" has added necklaces and "glamorous hairstyles" on men to the list of taboos. Someone must have told them it's a slippery slope from men in chains to boys in pink nail polish. More »
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Today in pyrrhic victories: a Swiss bank has rolled out a dress code that's equally obnoxious to women and men. It even warns dudes against panty lines! More »
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When a Civil Liberties professor finds herself offended by a student's skimpy clothes, she's caught between theory and reality. When is clothing inappropriate? And can a professor ever say so? More »
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Again with the intern mishigas! More »
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In response to the controversy over American Apparel's insanely detailed dress code, New York Magazine researched dress codes at 10 other retailers. The mag found AA's rules are comparable to other stores', except for its creepy photo-submission requirement. [N.Y. Magazine] More »
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• A spokeswoman says Jaycee Dugard and her family will decide when and if a film will be made about her story. She calls Shane Ryan's proposed film Abducted Girl, An American Sex Slave, "exploitative, hurtful, and breathtakingly unkind." • More »
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That's the mother of Ceara Sturgis, she of the no-tux-in-the-yearbook. As gender identity becomes an issue in schools, the New York Times can't help but wonder: whither dress codes? More »
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A 16-year-old boy withdrew from his school in Georgia after school officials told him to stop wearing his "feminine" clothes. They claim his outfit caused a fight, and told him to either dress more manly or get out. [UPI] More »
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A middle school in Colorado has banned all jelly bracelets, as administrators fear that students are wearing them in order to participate in the infamous "snap" games, wherein bracelets are allegedly used to represent certain sexual acts. More »
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"She's the image of a model graduate, this year's recipient of the Heart of Chapin Spirit Award, proud of her school from tassel to class ring, but Chelsea Sarvis' school won't allow her to participate at graduation without the dress." More »
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A women's college in Lahore, Pakistan has banned jeans and fitted clothing and mandated that students wear a dupatta, or veil. The administration says this is in light of reported terrorist threat. [TOI] More »
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A British survey found that women dress provocatively to get ahead at work, but Australians march to the beat of their own drum! "The Aussie marketplace has moved on," says an Antipodean pundit, loftily. [News.com.au] More »
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We get that TV has to sex stuff up. But is it a good thing that every female exec in Prime Time is wearing 5" heels? More »
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A "new survey" says that more than 27 percent of women said they'd wear skimpier clothing to the office if they thought it would help them get a promotion. More »
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Thanksgiving is usually the holiday you don't need to worry about too much. Your only jobs are to navigate familial minefields and eat hearty — neither of which really requires a special uniform. But according to fashion scribe extraordinaire Vanessa Friedman, there is indeed a Turkey Day aesthetic: "Puritan Chic." And sadly, it doesn't seem to involve elastic waistbands. More »
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The British accounting firm of Ernst and Young recently held a voluntary workshop for its female employees to teach them how to dress appropriately for work. Reports the Telegraph, "Fleur Bothwick, head of diversity at the firm, said that while men could simply opt for a uniform of dark suit and tie, officewear was more fraught for women." Accordingly, the 400 women who showed up were told not to wear heavy perfume or low-cut tops or carry evening bags to the office, and given a lecture on their best colors. From Sarah Palin's fashiongate to stories like these, we've been hearing a lot about the double standard applied to women in the workplace. Weirdly, more and more it seems like the message is, "as long as it's there, let's use it to our advantage!" More »
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When I was in middle school about 15 years ago, there were few firm rules regarding appropriate school attire. You were expected to show up to school looking like, well, a kid: relatively well-groomed with your body covered up and nothing "vulgar" scrawled on your t-shirts. But dress codes have gotten much stricter over the years, with everything from hair color to flip flops to hooded sweatshirts getting the authoritative smack down. And as MSNBC reports, even clothing tributes are being banned from schools, as 23 students in Omaha were suspended for wearing t-shirts that memorialized a friend of theirs who was shot to death. So where do we draw the line between offensive and expressive? More »
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Apparently Saudi Arabia's religious police are cracking down on adorned abayas — the black cloaks worn by women — prior to Eid — the celebration which marks the end of the month of Ramadan (it's today). Shopkeepers attempting to sell the black robes decorated with patterns, beads or trim — allowed under slightly relaxed dress codes — claim to have been threatened by the police, or mutawa'a, and have had to turn away customers. "They should focus on fighting vices, not women," said Buthaina Nassr, a women's activist, "I do not understand why they force us to wear black in such a hot country while men can wear white." [Mosan Mosan via Global Voices] More »
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The other day I got an invitation to a wedding that specified "Beach Festive," so today's Wall Street Journal piece on the stupid trend towards increasingly vague and creative dress codes was timely. Whereas most people find the distinctions between "black tie"," white tie" and "cocktail" quite daunting enough, the article claims that "it's no longer unusual to receive an invitation prescribing a dress code of "wild chic," "beach formal," "resort dressy," "international," "creative black tie" or "safari chic." And it doesn't stop there. We learn about such head-scratchers as "High Black Tie," "Ferrari Hot," "dressy resort" and the harrowingly vague "festive attire." Here, a cheat sheet: More »
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• The dress code at the Black Ball in New York tonight is "dress for Bono." [WWD, final item]

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Southwest Airlines, a carrier which favors a orange, blue, and poo-brown color scheme, has anointed itself the Anna Wintour of the mile-high club. Kyla Ebbert was escorted off a flight from to San Diego to Tucson by a customer service supervisor named "Keith" because he deemed her outfit "inappropriate". Ebbert was dressed for the 106-degree weather in the shit-hole she was headed to (for an important doctor appointment no less!), clad in a mini skirt, tank top, and cardigan — picture Posh Spice playing librarian or half the girls in SoCal dressed for work — and was only allowed to remain on the flight after she put up a major fight and explained she didn't have anything acceptably prudish to change into anyway. "Keith" relented but made her pull her top up so her cleavage wasn't as visible and pull her skirt down. More »
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