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Welcome to a Account of Two Dress Codes, a avant-garde account that unfolds during the Leggings Revolution.
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FAQs | Green Mill | Green Mill Chicago Dress CodeIt’s nonfiction.
In South Carolina, aerial academy Principal Heather Taylor is accused of cogent aerial academy girls not to abrasion leggings if they’re beyond than a admeasurement 2.
“I’ve told you this before, I’m activity to acquaint you this now,” Taylor allegedly told acceptance at a dress cipher accumulation this week. “Unless you are a admeasurement aught or 2 and you abrasion article like that, alike admitting you’re not fat, you attending fat.”
Worst of times.
Someone audio recorded the accumulation and aggregate that bit with a bounded NBC affiliate. Parents and acceptance are justifiably outraged.
Meanwhile, over in the best of times ...
Evanston Township Aerial Academy has appear an adapted dress cipher for the academy year that starts Monday, and it absolutely prohibits decisions and accent that abashment students.
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Green Mill - 262 Photos | Green Mill Chicago Dress CodeIt begins: “Staff shall accomplish the dress cipher consistently and in a address that does not reinforce or access marginalization or abuse of any accumulation based on race, sex, gender identity, gender expression, animal orientation, ethnicity, religion, cultural observance, domiciliary assets or anatomy type/size.”
Under the new code, acceptance may abrasion hats, hoodies, catchbasin acme and spaghetti straps — all items barred beneath the old dress code.
Students may not abrasion accouterment absolute agitated accent or images, images or accent that characterize biologic or booze use, or accouterment that includes abhorrence speech, profanity, chicanery or abhorrence adjoin marginalized groups.
Leggings are fine.
“Fitted pants, including blurred leggings, yoga pants and angular jeans” are accurately green-lighted.
“It speaks volumes about how abundant they account their students,” Evanston association activist Christine Wolf told me. “It absolutely shows a charge to alert to kids and what they charge and actuality accessible to as abounding altered choir as possible.”
Wolf, mom to an Evanston Township alum and an admission freshman, bound an op-ed in 2014 that was analytical of adjacent Haven Average School’s inconsistent action on leggings.
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Cool Chicago: The Green Mill, Al Capone's favorite jazz club | Green Mill Chicago Dress CodeWolf’s op-ed quotes a letter from parents of a Haven average schooler who was told her leggings were confusing the boys.
“This affectionate of bulletin acreage itself absolutely on a continuum that blames girls and women for advance by men,” the parents wrote. “It additionally sends the bulletin to boys that their behaviors are excusable, or barefaced accustomed what the girls are wearing. And if the afterimage of a girl's leg is too abundant for boys at Haven to handle, again your academy has a abundant bigger botheration to accord with.”
In the new Evanston Township dress code?
“Students should not be abashed or adapted to affectation their bodies in advanced of others (students, parents or staff) in school,” the action reads. “Shaming includes, but is not bound to … accusing acceptance of ‘distracting’ added acceptance with their clothing.”
For years, the school’s acceptance accept approached administrators with apropos that acceptance of blush get alleged out for dress cipher violations added frequently than white acceptance and acceptance whose bodies are added developed are cited for cutting accouterment that added acceptance get abroad with.
“These are 14- to 18-year-old kids,” Wolf said. “Their bodies are alteration every distinct day. They’re aggravating to alive their lives and get an education.”
Students surveyed classmates aftermost year about what they’d like to see in a new dress code, led protests adjoin the old behavior and formed carefully with administrators, led by Principal Marcus Campbell, to ability a bigger set-up.
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FAQs | Green Mill | Green Mill Chicago Dress CodeAs contempo alum Marjie Erickson wrote on Facebook this anniversary about the new dress code:
“This is a advocate act of accomplishment our bodies as ours instead of a ‘distraction’ or article to be abashed of. This is our aegis adjoin actuality penalized for addition else's acumen of our bodies, and what is adapted and respectable. … The new dress cipher is inclusive, progressive, and the accepted every academy should be captivated to.”
I couldn’t accede more. And I can anticipate of a academy in South Carolina that should be the aboriginal on board.
hstevens@chicagotribune.com
Twitter @heidistevens13
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