You can’t legislate good taste of appropriate attire. Bless them for trying. If you’re the type of individual who will appear at an event completely inappropriately dressed…believe me…there will be giggling and laughing behind your back. A pair of jeans one or two sizes larger, which cover a bit more , don’t cost more. It’s just harder to pick the ones with the lager number on the tag.
Just hand out gowns for the event. Once which need to be worn or you can’t participate. The gowns would be FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE to the user.
Really, if we spent a little bit less time and energy finding ways to be insulted, offended, ‘disrespected’ we’d all just ‘get along’ much better.
Lowish income people today typically have far more clothes than lowish income people of yesteryear.
This school wrote a terrible note, but they SEE these kids regularly and therefore know that these kids don’t just have a few outfits to choose from. With the onslaught of inexpensive clothes coming from overseas and the fact that the non-poor have massive wardrobes that they often purge to thrift stores, today’s low income people typically have a lot of clothes, too.
If this school was comprised of students who are showing up in “the same things” every few days, and are desperate to find pieces that are clean and w/o holes, surely the school would already be sensitive to that fact.
I think the school knows that these kids have clothes. they just sent out the most undiplomatic and sexist note.
If you’re large-busted, no. A blouse or dress that fits properly over your breasts often won’t fit at all at the shoulders or waist. Very often, you can try on every size they have in the store and none of them will even come close to fitting you.
Unless you can pay to get every garment you buy altered, you have a problem.
I’ve had this problem since I was 15. I’ve been fat and I’ve been thin, but the one thing that has never changed is that I have disproportionately large breasts. Buying clothes is hellish, and it was worse when I was younger and wanted to dress like a young person because the few garments that fit tended to be matronly in style. I welcomed middle age because it meant that looking matronly was OK.
Even now, though, when I find a shirt that fits, I buy it in every color they have to avoid further shopping.
^^^ You’re right, I was referring to pants. D is large-busted. She can find very inexpensive tops that work at H&M, Forever 21, T.J. Maxx, Marshall’s etc. A simple flow top with ‘girl-coverage’ that is appropriate for a professional office can run as little as $9.99. I don’t think she’s paid more than $20 for any of the 15+ tops she has for the office. A very simply cardigan which again covers the girls is not expensive.
So, it’s not an expensive proposition (the jeans being worn are much much more expensive). When I was a youngun’ I shopped at Goodwill etc because I was saving $$$.