A Philadelphia barista and water sports enthusiast says she was ridiculed by staff and, eventually, prevented from swimming at a public pool for wearing a swimsuit that looked like "a bra and panties." It was, in fact, an American Apparel bikini, which she demonstrated by letting a male employee pull out the waistband… » 7/18/14 7:00pm 7/18/14 7:00pm

The Russian Ministry isn't joking around when it comes to uniform modifications and a new decree forbids police women from shortening their hemlines, wearing wrinkled clothing, and mixing civilian and uniform attire. Male officers are now forbidden from ripping off their shirtsleeves. » 6/23/14 5:30pm 6/23/14 5:30pm

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… » 6/09/14 2:20pm 6/09/14 2:20pm

In case you weren't already convinced that most high school dress codes are sexist bullshit meant to police young women's behavior along totally arbitrary guidelines, this story should do it for you: a 17-year-old girl was publicly chastised and kicked out of a homeschool prom in Virginia because several dads in… » 5/13/14 2:15pm 5/13/14 2:15pm

The fight for the right to wear leggings to class continues apace at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Illinois. Recently, female students wore leggings in mass to protest a new school dress code that bans the tight pants because they're supposedly too distracting for boys and now teen "leggings activist" and… » 4/01/14 2:30pm 4/01/14 2:30pm

Student athletes wearing their uniforms to school on game day is as much a trope of the typical American high school as inedible hot lunches, boring math teachers and getting stoned behind the field house. This might be changing soon, however, because a bunch of MEGA-NERD administrators are ruining everything by… » 8/29/13 3:50pm 8/29/13 3:50pm

A 1920s-themed bar/restaurant in Riverside, California has been receiving tremendous backlash for a policy requiring women to wear high heels. An advertisement for "Pro-[upside-down-A]-bition" (I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it) reads: "Ladies: No flat shoes or sandals. Must have heels.… » 6/18/13 9:30pm 6/18/13 9:30pm

Tennessee Circuit Judge Royce Taylor of Rutherford County is strictly anti-elbow, according to a recent memo he sent out that specifically addressed the women in his courtroom. » 6/14/13 5:00pm 6/14/13 5:00pm

A wave of new teacher dress codes is inundating schools across America and threatening to sap the last little bit of dignity that the much-maligned school teacher has left. The Wichita School District has made it a point to regulate teachers' appearance, from the number of visible tattoos a teacher is allowed to have… » 7/30/12 10:00am 7/30/12 10:00am

The growing trend for Iranian women to wear Western fashions prompted Iran's reactionary "morality police" to raid 87 coffee shops on Saturday. Tehran police official Alireza Mehrabi explained that the coffee shops "were shut for not following Islamic values, providing hookah to women, and lacking proper licenses,"… » 7/22/12 4:30pm 7/22/12 4:30pm

A Christian Jordanian woman named Vivian Salameh is suing her former employer, the Dubai Islamic Bank, for arbitrary dismissal after she was fired a week ago for refusing to comply with her company's dress code, which required her to wear a headscarf that would cover all her hair except for her hairline. Salameh, who… » 5/27/12 5:00pm 5/27/12 5:00pm

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? » 1/25/12 6:45pm 1/25/12 6:45pm

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. » 12/08/11 9:30am 12/08/11 9:30am

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. » 6/14/11 5:20pm 6/14/11 5:20pm

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! » 12/15/10 2:42pm 12/15/10 2:42pm

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? » 11/15/10 3:30pm 11/15/10 3:30pm

Again with the intern mishigas! » 7/14/10 4:42pm 7/14/10 4:42pm

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] » 6/17/10 4:40pm 6/17/10 4:40pm