Olivia Turner’s Take on the Dress Code

Both women and men have different body types, and for some, it is hard to find clothes that show off or cover certain parts. When dealing with male bodies, there aren’t as many “sexualized” areas as women are portrayed of having. Girls with larger breasts or longer legs may have a harder time finding clothes that fit in with the requirements of school dress codes. So while one shirt may look appropriate on a girl with a smaller chest, the same shirt could be much more revealing on a girl with a larger bust. This concept also applies with legs and shorts; a shorter girl would be able to wear a certain pair that is easily an acceptable length, whereas they could seem much less ‘appropriate’ on a tall girl with long legs.

I am a girl with a larger chest size, I will admit. I’ve only ever been dress coded once, for skin colored tights, not for exposing cleavage. However, I cannot say exactly what is acceptable and what isn’t in a case like this. Yet I can say that it is hard for me to keep my clothes within the dress code. It’s becoming more difficult as my body matures and changes. Girls experience problems with their bodies in multiple ways, and trying to maintain dress code while all of this is happening to them is incredibly difficult. Between becoming taller and going up in bra sizes, girls have it a bit more difficult than boys to keep everything within school standards.