Dress codes

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Pros
- Pro 1: Dress codes enforce decorum and a serious, professional atmosphere conducive to success.
- Pro 2: Uniformly mandated dress codes promote safety.
- Pro 3: Dress codes promote inclusiveness and a comfortable, cooperative environment.
Cons
- Con 1: Dress codes can reinforce racist standards of beauty and dress and be tools of oppression.
- Con 2: Mandated dress codes are seldom uniformly mandated, often discriminating against women and marginalized groups.
- Con 3: Dress codes can bolster religious and cultural intolerance.
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Row of unrecognizable men standing close together, all wearing dark business suits and dress shoes, shown from shoulders down.

A woman wearing a green chadaree, or burqa, holds a young child in an orange sweater and headscarf. Other women in blue burqas and children stand in the background.

Dress codes: Media

Should dress codes be implemented and enforced?

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Row of unrecognizable men standing close together, all wearing dark business suits and dress shoes, shown from shoulders down.

Business dress codes

Should dress codes be implemented and enforced?

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Dress codes

Dress codes

Uniforms are common for kids in private schools.

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A woman wearing a green chadaree, or burqa, holds a young child in an orange sweater and headscarf. Other women in blue burqas and children stand in the background.

Religious dress codes

The chadari (burka), a full-body garment, is part of the mandatory...

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