<p>I actually bought a few pairs of “skinny pants” at J.Crew for my skinny 15 year old S. I didn’t realize they are “skinny;” I just thought they’d fit him better than baggy regular pants. </p>
<p>I don’t think that he has any idea whatsoever that they are trendy.</p>
<p>If they ban baggy pants (schools still ban those, right?) and they ban skinny pants, what’s left??</p>
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<p>CLEARLY A DELINQUENT.</p>
<p>Hmm, ban baggy pants, ban skinny pants. Maybe Seth should show up in a skirt (knee length, with knee socks of course).</p>
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<p>Maybe students can use that as an excuse to come in “au naturel”. :D</p>
<p>Mousegray, I wonder if the dress code prohibits kilts?</p>
<p>Our high school’s dress code prohibits showing the “Six B’s: Breasts, Buttocks, Backs, Bellies, Boxers or Bras.” It’s not really well enforced, though. The biggest offenders are the girls with the low-cut or spaghetti-strap tops. I really feel bad for the male teachers in high schools - these are young girls but they have women’s bodies and some of them like to show them off. It’s just really awkward for male teachers or administrators to enforce the rules: “Miss Student, your breasts are too exposed.” Ouch. They also ban shirts that advertise alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs, and studded belts.</p>
<p>^^^I went to a Catholic girls school where our uniform was a plaid skirt just above the knees. Our Physics teacher, one our the few male teachers, had a hugh sign in the front of the room “KYT — Keep your knees together!” He used to stand in the front of the room and throw erasers at offenders.</p>
<p>My middle school uniform was my biggest motivation to master my grandpa’s old Singer. After a few alterations, my ugly, long, baggy uniform dresses looked like stylish numbers 
My mother only shook her head when she saw my work (she confessed that she was glad someone in our household could actually do hemming).</p>
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<p>That reminds me of my physics teacher in high school. A very shapely young lady in my class wore a short, hip-hugging, and altogether vavoom-y dress to school one day. It wasn’t exactly street-walker material, but close, and I remember my poor teacher trying to convey this fact to her without sounding horny or sexist. At the time I thought it was just kind of funny; now I really feel for the guy. I don’t know what he could have said to get the idea across without seeming to impugn himself.</p>
<p>Thanks, m-s, now I have “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” running through my head.</p>
<p>I work at a middle school - I am very undiplomatic when I see boys with their pants way below the curve of their butt and girls with their breasts falling out of their their tops - usually along the lines of “For god’s sake, pull your your pants up!” or “Pull your shirt up, for heaven’s sake.” But I’m not a teacher. I think the key is not that I’m horrified at their dress - I’m not. It’s just looks ridiculous and I let them know it.
I don’t have any problem with skinny jeans - they are usually worn above the hips.</p>
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My husband wore a dress for Halloween, it was quite amusing when S2 told him too much was showing.</p>
<p>I didn’t think public schools had these kind of dress codes anymore. No stripes or plaid on shirts??? I don’t wear “skinny jeans” because I’m not so skinny myself anymore, but don’t have a problem with them on others.</p>
<p>S’s hair is long, thick and shaggy. I don’t like it, but it is one of those “pick your battles” issues for me. I figure some day he’ll realize how much better looking he is without the hair in his face and get it cut. My neighbors son did.</p>
<p>Skinny Jeans are the only jeans that FIT my son. Just like the video, my son can easily get his hands in his front pockets & a cell phone.</p>
<p>I’m all for reasonable dress codes, but this one just isn’t logical. Why not just be clear, concise & specific – i.e. “khaki & solid polo” only.</p>
<p>Checked the Cleveland Metropolitan School District dress code. (The students always look nice.) No jeans allowed, but no rule about skinny pants. A nice clear set of rules, I think.
<a href=“http://www.cmsdnet.net/Resources/Students/DressCode.aspx[/url]”>http://www.cmsdnet.net/Resources/Students/DressCode.aspx</a></p>