An Iowa Catholic high school just released the dress code for their end of year "scholastic achievement" assembly, and you'll be shocked to learn that it's a tad sexist! The boys of Dowling Catholic School can celebrate their scholastic achievments by being "classy" and removing their facial hair; the girls, though,…

Visual material can be really helpful in the classroom. For example the "Carol never wore safety goggles" poster worked for decades. Most of my understanding from science comes from Bill Nye The Science Guy videos. But when it comes to talking to students about a dress code, maybe don't show them a film about a…

It's only been two weeks since school started at Tottenville High School in Staten Island and already, some 200 students, mostly girls, at a Staten Island high school have been sent to detention over various dress code violations. And now the students intend to fight back.

There are people out there — fancy, elegant people — who strongly argue the case for dressing nicely on airplanes."The plane is not your living room," they say. "Dressing well around other people is a show of respect so why not put in a little effort when you travel?" The answer is easy: Because I don't want to and…

Every six months or so, some dusty old fuddy duddy writes something truly idiotic about how female lawyers are too slutty or frumpy or, uh, female to be taken seriously, and how any glass ceiling that exists in the legal field is built out of trendy heels and fashionable blouses. Well, this time around, we've done it.…

After a North Carolina high school student was sent home in tears on the last day of her senior year for wearing a floral dress that teachers said was a half-inch too short, her mom decided to stand up against the school's arbitrary dress codes by wearing the same outfit to the graduation ceremony days later.

Summer is a dangerous time. Murder spikes in America's cities, treacherous heat waves threaten the health of the elderly and underserved, and, most menacingly of all, women in sleeveless tops attempt, like slatterns, to enter Utah courtrooms as though their bare arms don't inspire violent lustful fantasies in all who…

In news that shouldn't surprise anyone, the Utah school which claimed it photoshopped girls to show less skin in order to comply with the dress code allowed pictures of shirtless boys exposing their underwear in a previous yearbook.

A reader spotted this sign up at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin.

A district crackdown saw 20-30 students sent home for dress code violations in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador late last week. While both male and female students were asked to leave school, the vast majority of those punished were girls cited for wearing visible bra straps.

Back in high school, most of us just grumbled resentfully at every dress-code crackdown. But one Canadian teen, busted for the terrible sin of wearing shorts on a hot day, decided to take a stand.

There’s a riot down in Texas and it’s not about women’s health or racist ranchers; kids are trashing their school to free themselves from oppressive dress codes!

Chaos erupted at Duncanville High School in Texas last week when the school administration performed a rather harsh crackdown on the school dress code, examining each student's clothing and general appearance with no prior warning. Anyone who violated the dress code was asked to change, with many kids simply being…

Are we still living in the Mad Men era? It seems like it, when in 2014, someone can kick a female student out of prom for wearing pants.

A public Illinois high school that requires female students to wear skirts or dresses and men to wear pants and and a tie to their graduation ceremony is facing criticism from parents and alums who take issue with the policy.

Ready to feel even more paranoid about your work wardrobe? Turns out giving zero fucks about conforming in the workplace can have a social upside—but only if you deviate in precisely the right ways.