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. Exception… » 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," and the … » 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

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

• 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." • » 11/18/09 5:40pm 11/18/09 5:40pm

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] » 10/08/09 9:20am 10/08/09 9:20am

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. » 9/13/09 6:05pm 9/13/09 6:05pm

"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." » 6/03/09 3:20pm 6/03/09 3:20pm