Dress Code in Catholic Universities

[Joe_5859]

I was always amazed looking at pictures from the “old days” of my alma mater that the male students were all wearing shirts and ties.

It is sad to see at a Catholic university. I think a lot of it is that, with our culture nowadays, many youth simply have no idea what modesty means or looks like. They’re not necessarily aiming to dress like “trollops” (); it’s just all they know.

I like the idea about going business casual. That seems doable. Trying to pitch the idea of going back to shirts and ties in the name of modesty is not likely to gain much traction. But going business casual sounds like a practical solution that people could easily embrace.

 

[andrewstx]

My HS had a dress code and it was challenged by the students. This was in the early 70s and at that time “hot pants” were in fashion and forbidden, also skirts more than 2" over the knees wer banned as well as bare midriffs.

Boys were pretty much left alone, no ties, and jeans were all anyone wore. But button up shirts were required, no tee shirts.

The big deal then was boy’s hair, you had to be a hippy, or redneck cowboy.

Their were teachers who went around with rulers and tape measures. Women teachers measured skirt length and necklines. While a male teacher (also a member of the Birch Society who taught Birch doctrine instead of US government) went around measuring boy’s hair to make sure it did not cover the ears or go beyond the top of the collar.

I think if these gung ho teachers had been calmed down a bit the controversy could have been averted. But that was not to be, the school was like a facist society and was in a far right community.

But it went to the School Board instead. There were no Yeshivas or Catholic high schools the public schools were all anyone had.