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Revealing Dresses Keep Girls Out of Texas School Dance
It's a night many high school students dream about -- the homecoming dance. Well, that dream became a nightmare for dozens of girls in Mesquite, Texas over the weekend. They were turned away from the event because of their alleged "revealing" dresses.
"Your dress is too short, your dress shows too much cleavage," one student said school officials told her.
Some 50 girls (several of them pictured above) were told they could not enter the dance at Mesquite High School in Dallas on Saturday night because their dresses were said to be too revealing.
The local CBS station in Dallas tried to talk to school administrators, but they would not comment. However, a flier for the dance called for "modest" attire and cautioned against wearing anything "too short" or "too tight." Several girls said because their dates bought the tickets, they never saw the warning.
Some parents who were dropping off their children tried to intervene, but they say security escorted them off school grounds. Before being led away, parents managed to snap pictures of girls who were allowed inside the dance. They say several had shorter skirts than their daughters.
"What really angers me was that it was at one person's discretion with no rules," said one parent, Sarah Barnes.
Barnes said one girl even appeared to be wearing the exact same dress as her daughter's.
"She got in the dance, and I didn't," 17-year-old Christina Barnes said.
The families are demanding an apology, as well as refunds for the unused $30 tickets.
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Comments
There was nothing wrong with their dresses
It's a matter of opinion and mine is that these girls look perfectly fine. Not sluttly at all.
Normal young girls. That is the trend. Nothing wrong with it.
Texas is stupid anyways.
No.
Your whore dressing daughters don't deserve an apology. Raise them better and tell them to dress as if they respect themselves.
Thanks, bye.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
It was a boob thing
I just watched a news piece on this story and it showed the photos of some of the girls who had been allowed into the dance. One of the girls was indeed wearing the identical dress as a girl turned away. And several other girls' dresses were even shorter and tighter than the allegedly inappropriately dressed girls. And many of them had the same strapless style.
From what I saw it appeared like many of the girls turned away had bigger chests than the less endowed girls wearing identically cut dresses. So it seems that the person in charge of checking dress code had an issue with boobs. It must have been either a woman who suffered from being flat chested her whole life an had a chip on her shoulder - or - it was some older guy who could not keep his mind out of the gutter. What were the bustier girls supposed to do??? Tape their breasts down? This discriminates against body type and the school should throw those kids another dance. That stinks.
Cheerleader dresses
Excuse me...but if they are going to do this, then perhaps they need to revisit the school policy on their cheerleaders outfits. Have you seen how short and tight they are?
I miss the 70s!
Not only were the dresses a LOT smaller back then, so were the girls!
Oh well.
Perhaps at the next dance
all the girls could show up in burkas. That would highlight their cause and the school official couldn't say THAT was too revealing.
Sounds like the problem was that there was no set standards, just one person's opinion. When two dresses are identical and one girl gets in and another doesn't, that is a sure cause for problems.
There are those who think a one piece bathing suit is immodest, anything above the knee is immodest, and everyone knows about the dress code in the Islamic countries. If you are going to regulate modesty, you need hard and fast rules. This school didn't have any.
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Really?
First of all, how is this national news? I have to say that from this photo, the dresses do not look that bad. That being said, I have to agree with schools finally showing a little common sense in the enforcement of dress codes. I have worked in public schools and been absolutely appalled at what was permitted. Also,is anybody buying that these girls "never saw the warning?" Evidently their parents are! Why else would they be snapping photos of other girls' dresses instead of using this opportunity to teach them that life is not fair. It's not the end of the world, nor worthy of national attention.
Looks like
The problem wasn't them not allowing them in for dresses.
When I first saw this article, I thought "Well good. Finally getting some back bone and enforcing some class back into class."
But it looks like the problem isn't that they weren't allowed in because of their dresses, but rather because what constituted "too short" or "too tight" was subjective.
I'd be 100% with you though, if there had been a codified set of what was too short or too revealing. Like "Must be X inches past finger tips." or that "the top can't go X inches below the collar bone."
But then again, that probably would lead to idiots with tape measures, blocking girls for being 1/8 an inch too short. We likely can't ever win. :(
Yes
You are exactly right about that. There should have been a standard.
Lucky for me, I have only boys!