Have you taken your teen daughter shopping for school clothes lately? If you had you would realize there are barely any choices for them to meet dress code.
You make/sell Jeans with rips, holes and tears in them, but barley any without. Your dress code says no rips and at least mid-thigh (fingertip) in length. You design/sell shorts that are shorter than mid-thigh or fingertip length in mass but knee and mid-thigh (fingertip) are scarce, especially when school starts. The only shorts that are available to meet dress code are uniform shorts and sometimes denim Bermuda shorts. Even if the girl’s butt cheeks are not showing, but shorter than mid-thigh, they are dress coded and sent to change. Change into what?! Jeans with rips, yoga pants (also not allowed by your dress code), or embarrassed and humiliated by school staff by forcing them to wear gym shorts so everyone knows a teacher did not like your pants(now what’s distracting), while another student walks by her with even shorter pants. Now add to that your child has issues with types of fabrics, or they are real thin in the waist or short, or they are hefty or have thick thighs. Try finding something for a teen girl to meet dress code that fits them and feels good on their skin.
Now let’s shop for shirts. Have you noticed how thin the shirts are? We can see right through them. A teen’s bra can be seen right through the material. We buy dark colors to compensate for this because if we layered it is too hot in the South. Today it is expected to reach 104 degrees F when you factor in the heat index. School dress code says no offensive writing or gang related symbols on shirts. How many shirts can I find in a department store without some wording on them AND thick enough that you cannot see their belly button outline, bra color or skin color? Not many at all. Like I said we buy dark colors. Winter is not any easier to buy shirts. Now they are long sleeve (less spaghetti straps), but they are still so thin you have to wear at least two shirts. Why not make shirts with thicker material, just a little thicker would go a long way. Then the dress code says show no cleavage. Again, it is hard to find shirts/blouses with higher neck lines for teens.
So today my daughter is wearing Jeans and a dark purple shirt and the temp remember is supposed to hit 104 degrees F.
I would be okay with you selling/making ripped jeans, shorts with frays, short shorts and thin shirts if you would also sell/make just as many jeans without holes and rips, shorts that are mid-thigh and thicker shirts with no words on them. Buyers need to think about back to school shoppers. We need clothes that meet dress code. We also need a dress code that makes since for our area and enforced equally throughout the school
If you have a boy to shop for, it is SO MUCH easier to shop for back to school clothes. Necklines don’t plummet. Their shorts are at least mid-thigh and they have thicker t-shirts. Just need more without slang written on them. Why the double standard?? Girls should have the same choice to be modest. I won’t go into the whole sexualizing our young girls here. There is much more to say about distractions caused by clothing I am sure.
