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Heels Dress Code At Bar In California Riles Customers

Posted 06.18.2013 | Style

A local bar/restaurant is on the defensive this week after posting a new dress code that mandated "must have heels" for female patrons. ProAbition...

Patience -- Not One of my Virtues

Laverne H. Bardy | Posted 06.04.2013 | Fifty
Laverne H. Bardy

Today I spent what felt like a year at the Motor Vehicle Agency. If I'm ever given a choice of going back there or scrubbing gas station toilets, I'll choose the latter.

The Rise Of Quirky Wedding Dress Codes

www.today.com | Posted 05.24.2013 | Weddings

"Bohemian black-tie"? "Farmhouse chic"? Wedding dress codes are becoming increasingly creative and theme-specific, often leaving guests with a sart...

Dress Codes or How Schools Skirt Around Sexism and Homophobia

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.21.2013 | Parents
Soraya Chemaly

Girls and LGTBQ youth are disproportionately affected by school dress codes. Challenging schools to align unexamined, traditional dress codes to contemporary values is a tangible place to start if you're interested in teaching kids to live in a diverse, tolerant society.

A Dress Code for Teachers? Or Anything Goes?

Rae Pica | Posted 03.13.2013 | Home
Rae Pica

Admittedly, I haven't been a public school student for a long, long time. So it came as an enormous surprise when I saw a proliferation of newspaper reports and blogs describing midriff-baring, sweatpants- and pajama-bottom-wearing teachers. Surely, this couldn't be!

5 Ways To Shine At Your Office Party Without Embarrassing Anyone

The Huffington Post | Christina Anderson | Posted 12.13.2012 | Style

Thinking of wearing this to your company holiday party? Don't.

Dad Protests Principal For Teaching Teen About Porn

Posted 11.12.2012 | Home

Steven Werner is protesting a Michigan principal's decision to educate his daughter on porn, calling it an act of bullying and demanding a written apo...

Ohio Students Told To Remove Gay-Supporting Rainbow T-Shirts

Posted 11.02.2012 | Home

A group of Celina High School students are at the center of a contentious debate on free speech after nearly two dozen students were told to remove th...

Teen Suspended For Pink Hair Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness

Posted 10.08.2012 | Home

South Carolina mother Denise Sargent is upset that her daughter Rheanne was suspended for dying her hair pink to support National Breast Cancer Awaren...

Why I Allow My Daughter to Wear THIS

Stephanie Covington Armstrong | Posted 10.30.2012 | Parents
Stephanie Covington Armstrong

My girlfriend couldn't contain the surprise and horror at what my daughter was wearing in public. She stared at me open-mouthed, waiting for some sensible answer, like maybe all of my child's pants were dirty or better yet, stolen.

Airlines Say: You Can't Wear That

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 10.25.2012 | Style

DALLAS — Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stir as much debate as this: How you're dressed. A woman flying fro...

Boy In Trouble For Wearing Out-Of-State Shirt Gets Huge Surprise

Posted 10.23.2012 | Home

The 5-year-old kindergarten student who was told to turn his University of Michigan T-shirt inside out will be receiving a hero's welcome at an upcomi...

School: Boy Violated Dress Code By Wearing Shirt For Out-Of-State Team

Posted 08.22.2012 | Home

One Oklahoma elementary school has a strict dress code policy -- no college apparel that isn't from Oklahoma. Last week, Wilson Elementary School's...

Single in the City: The Niqab and I

Rym Tina Ghazal | Posted 10.14.2012 | Style
Rym Tina Ghazal

By banning the niqab and burqa we are not really helping anyone. A truly repressed woman has far bigger problems than what she wears on her face.

100 Miss. Students Suspended On First Day For Their Shoes

Posted 08.14.2012 | Home

Nearly 100 Canton High School students received in-school suspensions on their first day last Wednesday after sporting neon-colored shoes, neon shoe s...

What People Think Is Office-Appropriate May Surprise You

Christina Anderson | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Christina Anderson

So, it's not without irony that I work as a fashion editor and come to work dressed in everything from a caftan to cutoff denim shorts. That said, even at a creative company where jeans are the norm, there is still quite a bit of ambiguity on what is acceptable in the workplace.

Student Forced To Shave Matt Bonner Haircut, Scores Courtside Playoffs Tickets

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.18.2012 | Home

Patrick Gonzalez, the 12-year-old student forced to shave off his haircut -- which was a tribute to San Antonio Spurs player Matt Bonner -- finally go...

Middle Schooler Faces Suspension For Crazy Haircut

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.18.2012 | Home

Patrick Gonzalez, a student at Woodlake Hills Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, was given in-school suspensionfor coming to class with the likeness...

Middle Schooler Suspended For Red Hair

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.16.2012 | Home

Hannah Adams, a 13-year-old student at Riverside Middle School in Greer, S.C., received a week of in-school suspension for coming to class with her ha...

GOP Lawmaker Explains Playing Hooky For Two Months

Easley Patch | Carolyn Farr Smith | Posted 05.29.2012 | Politics

Republican State Representative Eric J. Bikas said that he hasn't been to Columbia in two months, after he was asked to leave in January. Bikas, 25...

Those Matching Work Outfits Could Cost You Your Job

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.19.2012 | Business

It's always a little bit embarrassing when you show up to work wearing the same thing as the person who shares your cubicle (a situation we're very fa...

Queeries: What To Wear When It Seems No One Cares Anymore

Steven Petrow | Posted 05.13.2012 | Gay Voices
Steven Petrow

It's simply a fact of modern life that attire, whether in the office, a night on the town, or even a cocktail party, is a lot more informal than it once was. In my book, that's not the end of the world as we know it, nor does it mean you need to follow suit.

Pennsylvania District Bans Fur-lined Boots Over Cellphones

AP | Posted 01.27.2012 | Home

POTTSTOWN, Pa. -- A suburban Philadelphia middle school's ban on a popular type of fur-lined boots isn't about fashion, it's about cellphones. Pottst...

A Holiday Dress Guide for the Pajama-Inclined

Corinne Mucha | Posted 02.18.2012 | Chicago
Corinne Mucha

For those who prefer to wear jammies all the live-long day, it can be hard to decide what's appropriate to wear for important holiday occasions. This handy guide lets you know: Pajamas? Yea or nay?

POLL: Should School Dress Codes Ban 'Distracting' Hair And Piercings?

Posted 11.23.2011 | Home

A California high school has proposed a controversial new dress code which, if approved, would prohibit students from sporting "distracting" hair (suc...