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The Dress-Code Crackdown

Across the U.S., high schools are banning low-rise jeans, midriff-baring tops, and other skimpy articles of clothing. What do you think about the fashion crackdown?

Paul Cooper • Plumber

“What I don’t get is the super-low jeans where the thong straps peek out above the waistline. Why aren’t those required?”

Paul Cooper • Plumber

Nelson Wollersheim • Bond Trader

“Girls that young should not be wearing sexy outfits in school. I say dress them all in plaid skirts and knee-high stockings.”

Nelson Wollersheim • Bond Trader

Lisa Hausherr • Social Worker

“I think girls who violate dress codes should be suspended and picked up from school by their mothers’ boyfriends.”

Lisa Hausherr • Social Worker

Tom Atack • Tom Atack

“The way the kids dress these days, it’s becoming almost impossible to tell the sluts from the regular girls.”

Tom Atack • Tom Atack

Michael Keller • Systems Analyst

“Thank God for Maury Povich. He’s doing his part by sending all those out-of-control, too-sexy teens to boot camp.”

Michael Keller • Systems Analyst

Meredith Wakefield • Legal Secretary

“I don’t know. I think some of those crotchless hot pants they sell in the JCPenney children’s department are kind of cute.”

Meredith Wakefield • Legal Secretary