Learn about School Uniform Policies, Benefits of School Uniforms, Dress Codes, Culture, Sexual and Social Politics, Fashion and Slumming it
The 1% Big Wig
vs
the
99% Wig Out
Why
does the term "Big Wig" represent the fashion of the
1%?
Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn't wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term 'big wig'. Today we often use the term 'here comes the Big Wig' because someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.
WIG OUT There
was a syphilis outbreak in Europe in 1580 that left most people, including women
bald.
For nearly two centuries, powdered wigs—called perukes—were all the rage. The chic hairpiece would have
never
become popular, however, if it hadn't been for a venereal disease, a pair of self-conscious kings, and poor
hair hygiene. The peruke's story begins with the syphilis outbreak which sparked a surge in wigmaking. The
cost of wigs increased, and perukes became a scheme for flaunting wealth. An everyday wig cost about 25
shillings—a week's pay for a common Londoner. The bill for large, elaborate perukes ballooned to as high as
800 shillings. The word “bigwig” was coined to describe snobs who could afford big, poufy perukes.
By the late 18th century, the trend was dying out. French citizens ousted the peruke during the Revolution,
and Brits stopped wearing wigs after William Pitt levied a tax on hair powder in 1795. Short, natural hair
became the new craze, and it would stay that way for another two centuries or so.
Why do we have School Uniforms and Dress Codes?
Read about school uniforms: arguments pro and con, implementation issues, and benefits and disadvantages.
school dress code
school uniform
Culture: Fashion, Morals, & Slumming it. Low Class vs. High Class, and respect for the uniform.
THE RUNGS ON THE LADDER OF JUDGEMENT
CLASS = STATUS = WEALTH = DISPLAY = DRESS = SPEECH = MORALS = HIGH BROW VS LOW BROW
Why have School Uniforms and Dress Codes?
Why do the runways of Europe and the US take the low class street culture for Haute
Couture?
Do the kids with Spiked hair know that's the institutional look from leaving a mental ward?
Do the kids know that Baggy, falling down pants that's the look of prison uniforms?
"Regional clothing from our locale" including "bling bling ice ice, grills" and "hoochie hoops."
Damage Done
A Misogynist education, that humiliates girls is appalling and abusive especially when delivered by school administrators or news anchors.
The State and the Department of Education cannot be permitted to "groom" girls, to believe they
are
the "prey" who can be attacked by boys at anytime for any reason including what they wear. No
means
no. It doesn't matter what your wear.
Boys in middle school, high school, college and in the work place are not allowed to be thugs who feel free
to
insult, and assult female and this has nothing to do with what they wear. It is not the girls responsiblity
to
control thugs, that is not possible.
He
Supports She
Example: The First Female Fighter Pilot who was the US country's team leader in Syria
Strikes and dropped bombs on ISIS is wearing the uniform.
Why isn't respect demanded? Why is a thug like Ric Bolling on the air? see Jon Stewart explain starting 5:00
Fox news thug made the snarky "boobs on the ground" remark and An Open Letter To Fox News About 'Boobs On The Ground'
DEMAND RESPECT
All School administrators define what is disruptive.
MANAGING HOT MOMENTS IN THE CLASSROOM
Remember the same "fight" over dress codes in the 1970's?
Dress was considered protected expression with the exception of anything disruptive to educational process.
There is already a dress code in black shapeless garments which totally hide their physical shape, and which
also covers their heads and faces. Is this uniform also disruptive?
2014 #iammorethanadistraction #DressPolice
Students protest 'slut shaming' high school dress codes with mass walkouts Students
around US organise protests after administrators have made them wear 'shame suits' or mandate hemline
limits.
Studen protests complain at the way girls have been “humiliated” and forced to cover up accusing schools of
sexism and so-called “slut shaming”. There is a problem here of state power getting confused with matters of
good taste. The state can not mandate "good taste". Student Forced to Wear 'Shame Suit' for Dress Code Violation. Such an approach condoned boys
seeing women as sexual objects, said Huffman. "It perpetuates the idea that girls need to conform to
satisfy the males. If girls are getting harassed, we should blame the boys, not the girls."
Boys / Men are not allowed to get away with criminal behavior or be conditioned to think "she wore
it" so she must be asking for it, it's her fault. This is exactly what leads to the brutal behavior
witnessed inside the University Fraternity over and over again, where women have been made into sex objects
then raped.
9/19/14 Obama and Biden launched "It's On Us" -- an awareness campaign to put an end to sexual assault on college campuses (fact sheet). The campaign asks everyone -- men and women -- to make a personal commitment to step off the sidelines and be part of the solution. An estimated one in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years. Of those assaults, only 12% are reported. Of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished. (Note: The Obama Administration has taken steps to help bring an end to campus sexual assaults by sending guidance to every district, college, and university on legal obligations to prevent and respond to sexual assaults; creating the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to work with colleges and universities on developing critical best practices; and reviewing existing laws to make sure they adequately protect victims of sexual assault.)
2013 In Mississippi, if kindergarteners violate the dress code or act out in class, they may end up in the back of a police car. Ridiculous? Perhaps. But incidents such as this are happening across Mississippi. A report, Handcuffs on Success: The Extreme School Discipline Crisis in Mississippi Public Schools," exposes just how bad it's become. The report examined more than 100 school districts and claimed that black students are affected by harsh disciplinary actions at a much greater rate than their white peers. October, 2012 the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against officials in Meridian, Miss., for operating a school-to-prison pipeline. Mississippi ranks sixth lowest among the 50 states in graduation rates. On a recent Science and Engineering Readiness Index, the state ranked 50th for high school students on their performance in physics and calculus. It came in last on the National Assessment of Educational Progress survey in 2012.
Suggestions and Descriptions of Model Programs
- Manual on School Uniforms suggestions and descriptions of model programs
- Source In
1997, 3% all public schools required school uniforms; three years later, the level topped
12%, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The department also found that 47% of public schools
enforced a strict dress code.
The federal government takes a new look at the issue in 2006. Proponents say dress codes and school uniforms increase school safety by eliminating gang-related clothing and helping aid in the recognition of nonstudents on campus. Other potential benefits cited include better student behavior, more resistance to peer pressure and improved emphasis on academics.
About one in four public elementary schools and one in eight public middle and high schools in the USA have policies dictating what a student wears to school, says David Brunsma, a sociologist who wrote Uniforms in Public Schools: A Decade of Research and Debate in 2005.
- If wearing a school uniform brings about behavioral changes and enhanced academic achievement, should we require that teachers and principals also wear the same uniform? Or, does the magic of a uniform only work for students? What should teachers wear? How What You Wear Affects What You Accomplish as a Teacher.
- A study of uniform policies at public schools around Nashville says it simply doesn't work. Students will always find ways to
distinguish themselves. Students in "standard school attire," were just as likely to get
suspended
as their regular-clothed peers.
- Sagging pants, a style popularized in the early 1990s by hip-hop artists, are becoming
a
criminal offense in a growing number of communities. Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by
lawmakers has determined pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they
have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it. Since June 11, sagging pants have been against the law in
Delcambre, La., a town of 2,231 that is 80 miles southwest of Baton Rouge. The style carries a fine of as
much as $500 or up to a six-month sentence"We used to wear long hair, but I don't think our
trends
were ever as bad as sagging," said Mayor Carol Broussard. An ordinance in Mansfield, a town of 5,496
near Shreveport, subjects offenders to a fine (as much as $150 plus court costs) or jail time (up to 15
days). Police Chief Don English said the law, which takes effect Sept. 15, will set a good civic image.
Behind the indecency laws may be the real issue -- the hip-hop style itself, which critics say is worn as
a
badge of delinquency, with its distinctive walk conveying thuggish swagger and a disrespect for authority.
Also at work is the larger issue of freedom of expression and the questions raised when fashion moves from
being merely objectionable to illegal. Sagging began in prison, where oversized
uniforms were issued without belts to prevent suicide and their use as weapons. The style spread
through rappers and music videos, from the ghetto to the suburbs and around the world. Following a pattern
of past fashion bans, the sagging prohibitions are seen by some as racially motivated because the wearers
are young, predominantly African-American men. Yet, this legislation has been proposed largely by
African-American officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30baggy.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/subs-saggy-pants-garter_n_798445.html
Ivy League Plaid Has Always Been Acceptable
Plaid is always acceptable.
*1850 *Woolrich unveils the two-tone plaid Buffalo Check shirt, which is still available today. According
to
the Pennsylvania-born company's history books, the pattern designer owned a herd of buffalo.
There is a legend about Native Americans who encountered a "Buffalo plaid"
fabric pattern, best known in its red & black manifestation on the "lumberjack
shirt" worn by Big Jack MacCluskey, a late-19th century Scottish settler in
western Canada. They had never seen cloth dyed a brighter red, & thus believed it to have been made from
the blood of his enemies and prey.
- 1970 we had a sit-in @ Cheltenham High School Wyncote, PA for the right to wear blue jeans (called dungerees at that time) to school. Jeans were banned because only farmers wore them. Blue collar work clothes were considered inappropriate for school.
Now thanks to icons like Steve Jobs: 40 years later they are called "power jeans" which are increasingly common in high-ranking business and political
circles. Jeans are now a legitimate part of the global power-dress lexicon, worn to
influential confabs where the wearers want to signal they're serious - but not fussy - and innovative.
Many leaders wear jeans for a power look, like Barack Obama. Traditionally cut blue jeans carry a whiff of
the
laborer about them, so denim on a leader suggests a willingness to roll up the sleeves and dig in. There's
also something of the rebel in a pair of jeans. In the boardroom, that can read as creative.
But jeans must be carefully paired with a pressed shirt and good shoes to be elevated to business class. And
some industries haven't (yet) become open to denim as power wear. Banks and accounting-firm boardrooms, for
instance, remain decidedly woolen. New York-based career adviser Jonscott Turco says jeans are generally a
"no-brainer" in the media, manufacturing and creative industries, but not in financial services
and
law firms.
2016 Palantir is the Palo Alto, California, data analytics company co-founded and backed by billionaire
Peter
Thiel and does work for the CIA and FBI went to the Pentagon to bid on a contract wearing slacks and an
unbuttoned dress shirt without a tie so they lost the
contract.
Commercializing, marketing, merchandising the poor is historically rooted in ideas about sex, morals AND CLASS from Victorian England.
THE BOSTON BRAHMINS
THE RUNGS ON THE LADDER OF JUDGEMENT
CLASS = STATUS = WEALTH = DISPLAY = DRESS = SPEECH = MORALS = HIGH BROW VS LOW BROW
2016 Why do we have Dresscode Rules in the Courtroom?
"NO PAJAMA'S IN THE COURTROOM"
Judge Craig Long recently put up a sign in the lobby of his courtroom. It says, "pajamas are not appropriate attire for district court." Long says he's
seeing
more and more people coming into his courtroom wearing pajama bottoms. He hopes the sign will help people
know
his rules. “We have a growing problem of people not dressing appropriately for
court. And I just put it out there as a reminder of the code of
conduct that should be followed when appearing in court. It's not a law. It's not a rule or
something
that we can enforce. It's just basically a reminder,” Long said.
Historical Fashions and Vintage Clothing Styles Archives 1880s - 1930s Men's and Women's Clothing Styles on Board the Steamships
Background Story:
Poverty in Victorian England.
His book is "Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London."
Chapter from "Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London" Seth Koven
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7850.html and
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7850.pdf
<snip>
"The intimate, turbulent, and often surprising relationship between benevolence and
sex, rich and poor, in Victorian London is my subject. I came to this topic circuitously through the
history
of elite men's and women's philanthropic endeavors to bring "sweetness and light" to the
dark spaces and dirty inhabitants of the metropolis. As I immersed myself deeply in the sources, I found
it
impossible to keep sex, sexual desire, and sexuality out of their story. So what began as an inquiry into
class-bridging institutions and social welfare programs took on a life of its own, propelled by several
insights. First, it became clear that debates about "social" questions such as homelessness,
social hygiene, childhood poverty, and women's work were often sparked by and tapped into anxieties
about sex, sexuality, and gender roles. To understand how elite men and women thought about the poor
required me to reckon with how they thought about sex, gender, and themselves. Second, I discovered that
the
widely shared imperative among well-to-do men and women to traverse class boundaries and befriend their
outcast brothers and sisters in the slums was somehow bound up in their insistent eroticization of poverty
and their quest to understand their own sexual subjectivities. But how and why were these movements, both
literal and imaginative, connected? And what were the consequences of such linkages for the histories of
class, gender, sexuality, and welfare? An inquiry into the set of social practices and relations that
Britons called slumming promised a means to untangle and knit together in a new way the history of sexual
and social politics. Once I started looking for slumming, it was hard not to find it
everywhere." </snip>
CHARACTER EDUCATION: What does it mean to be an educated person?
Crippled by Their Culture
Crippled by Their Culture
Mr. Sowell, the Rose and Milton
Friedman Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution 4/17/05 (his comments start about 1/2 way through the
program)
"For most of the history of this country, differences between the black and the
white
population -- whether in income, IQ, crime rates, or whatever -- have been attributed to either
race
or racism. For much of the first half of the 20th century, these differences were attributed to
race -- that is, to an assumption that blacks just did not have it in their genes to do as well as white
people. The tide began to turn in the second half of the 20th century, when the assumption developed that
black-white differences were due to racism on the part of whites.
Three decades of my own research lead me to believe that neither of those explanations will stand up under
scrutiny of the facts. As one small example, a study published last year indicated that most of the black
alumni of Harvard were from either the West Indies or Africa, or were the children of West Indian or
African
immigrants. These people are the same race as American blacks, who greatly outnumber either or both.
If this disparity is not due to race, it is equally hard to explain by racism. To a
racist,
one black is pretty much the same as another. But, even if a racist somehow let his racism stop at the
water's edge, how could he tell which student was the son or daughter of someone born in the West
Indies
or in Africa, especially since their American-born offspring probably do not even have a foreign
accent?
What then could explain such large disparities in demographic "representation" among these three
groups of blacks? Perhaps they have different patterns of behavior and different cultures and values
behind
their behavior.
There have always been large disparities, even within the native black population of the
U.S. Those blacks whose ancestors were "free persons of color" in 1850 have fared far
better in income, occupation, and family stability than those blacks whose ancestors were freed in the
next
decade by Abraham Lincoln.
What is not nearly as widely known is that there were also very large disparities within the white population of the pre-Civil War South and the white population of the Northern states.
Although Southern whites were only about one-third of the white population of the
U.S., an absolute majority of all the illiterate whites in the country were in the
South.
The North had four times as many schools as the South, attended by
more than four times as many students.
Children in Massachusetts spent more than
twice
as many years in school as children in Virginia. Such disparities obviously produce other disparities.
Northern newspapers had more than four times the circulation of Southern newspapers. Only 8% of the patents
issued in 1851 went to Southerners. Even though agriculture was the principal economic activity of the
antebellum South at the time, the vast majority of the patents for agricultural inventions went to
Northerners. Even the cotton gin was invented by a Northerner.
Disparities between Southern whites and Northern whites extended across the board from rates of violence to
rates of illegitimacy. American writers from both the antebellum South and the North
commented on the great differences between the white people in the two regions. So did famed French
visitor
Alexis de Tocqueville.
None of these disparities can be attributed to either race or racism.
Many contemporary observers attributed these differences to the existence of slavery in the South, as many in later times would likewise attribute both the difference between Northern and Southern whites, and between blacks and whites nationwide, to slavery. But slavery doesn't stand up under scrutiny of historical facts any better than race or racism as explanations of North-South differences or black-white differences.
The people who settled in the South came from different regions of Britain than the people who settled in the North -- and they differed as radically on the other side of the Atlantic as they did here -- that is, before they had ever seen a black slave.
Slavery also cannot explain the difference between American blacks and West Indian blacks living in the United States because the ancestors of both were enslaved.
When race, racism, and slavery all fail the empirical test, what is left?
CULTURE IS LEFT
The culture of the people who were called "rednecks" and "crackers" [ Cracker - A Cracker is a Creagaire: a hard, misely person ] before they
ever got on the boats to cross the Atlantic was a culture that produced far lower levels of intellectual and
economic achievement, as well as far higher levels of violence and sexual promiscuity.
Crackers By the 1760s the English, both at home
and
in colonial America, were applying the term (cracker) to Scots-Irish settlers of the southern
backcountry
in southern Georgia and northern Florida.
Amazing Origin of the words
KU KLUX KLAN, CRACKER, and JIM CROW
Cracker - A Cracker is a Creagaire: a hard, misely person
That culture had its own way of talking, not
only
in the pronunciation of particular words but also in a loud, dramatic style of oratory with vivid imagery,
repetitive phrases and repetitive cadences.{source} (MUSIC
BELOW)
Although that style originated on the other side of the
Atlantic in centuries past, it became for generations the style of both religious oratory and
political oratory among Southern whites and among Southern blacks -- not only in the South but
in
the Northern ghettos in which Southern blacks settled. It was a style used by Southern white politicians
in
the era of Jim Crow and later by black civil
rights leaders fighting Jim Crow.
Hear Martin Luther King's famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 was a classic example of that style and you can hear it.
While a third of the white population of the U.S. lived within the redneck culture,
more
than 90% of the black population did. Although that culture eroded away over the generations, it
did
so at different rates in different places and among different people. It eroded away much faster in Britain
than in the U.S. and somewhat faster among Southern whites than among Southern blacks, who had fewer
opportunities for education or for the rewards that came with escape from that counterproductive
culture.
Nevertheless the process took a long time. As late as the First World War, white soldiers from Georgia,
Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi scored lower on mental tests than black soldiers from Ohio, Illinois, New
York and Pennsylvania. Again, neither race nor racism can explain that -- and neither can slavery.
The redneck culture proved to be a major handicap for both whites and blacks who absorbed it.
Today, the last remnants of that culture can still be found in the worst of ghettos, whether in the North or the South. The counterproductive and self-destructive culture of rednecks in today's ghettos is regarded by many as the only "authentic" culture -- and, for that reason, something not to be tampered with.
CULTURE OF HONOR
Teachers, Dress Code, Evolutionary Psychology, Culture of Honor, Reputation
An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on Cultures of Honor Abstract: A key element of cultures of honor is that men in these cultures are prepared to protect with violence the reputation for strength and toughness. Such cultures are likely to develop where (1) a man's resources can be thieved in full by other men and (2) the governing body is weak and thus cannot prevent or punish theft. Historically a herding culture operating outside of formal government, the southern United States has a rich culture of honor. In this article, I briefly review research conducted by Nisbett, Cohen, and colleagues on the southern culture of honor. I then present several important but unanswered questions about the development and maintenance of the southern culture of honor. I next argue that current models of the development and maintenance of cultures of honor and violence can be informed by an evolutionary psychological perspective. I conclude with a tentative evolutionary psychological analysis of the development and maintenance of the southern culture of honor.
Bryan Palmer explains the connections between
charivari, rough music and forerunners of the
KKK.
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
If people want to use honor to achieve moral and political ends, they have to use it well, not just wield
it
willy-nilly. To motivate honor, you have to be honorable yourself. And, sadly, too many of those who speak
of this concept get it twisted.
Honor's a powerful concept that can either spark moral
progress or shame once-great nations. Honor's an ambiguous, subjective concept, one mixed with morality,
reason and social custom. “Honor involves being entitled to respect. To care about you honor is to care not
just about being respected, but also being entitled to respect.” Honor must be earned, and stems from a
system
of codes that prescribe and define “respectable” behavior.
“The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen,” explores the ways in
which this seemingly obsolete concept helped dismantle three contemptible traditions: dueling in Britain,
footbinding in China and the Atlantic Slave trade. And these case studies, he says, provide clues on how
mankind can use honor to eradicate today's equally shameful practices, like “honor killings” in
Pakistan.
Honor is not just a concept, it's a biological function.
“Social psychologists,” Appiah writes in “Honor Codes,” “acknowledge a fundamental human disposition to
care
about hierarchy and respect, with respect understood as something that is derivative of hierarchy.” We
humans, in all of our social glory, crave respect, and not receiving it, or being actively dishonored, can
have devastating results, as we saw too clearly in a recent series of gay
suicides.
“We're social creatures and part of our sociability consists in requiring the respect of our fellows in
order to flourish. To be denied that respect is a terrible burden.” Appiah's assertion helps shed light
on
key aspect of honor — its “what,” respect, only works when coupled with a “who.” Yes, identity, as happens,
plays a significant, three-pronged, role in honor.
The first way identity figures is within the honor world, “The class of people giving and taking of respect
matters.” Then honor and one's own identity have an interaction, typically along gendered lines. And,
finally, honor influences shared identities, often through nationalism, which is exactly what happened when
China abandoned footbinding at the end of the 19th century.
Though there were already laws prohibiting footbinding and a vocal movement against the practice, for
centuries considered “honorable” among the elite, it wasn't until China began interacting with more
industrialized states that the nation as a whole was forced to either defend or discard this honor. They
chose
the latter.
Laws and activism alone don't work; minds, and a collective sense of honor, must
be
channelled in new directionThe press can play a significant role in raising awareness, and
sometimes
shame, to help dismantle “dishonorable” actions. The state, too, helps. In order for honor to flow toward a
more righteous end, there must be a shared level of respect, the aforementioned honor world's must be
expanded. A counter protest, led by Jon
Stewart and Stephen Colbert, called “Rally to Restore Sanity,” which, amusing as it may be, does
nothing
to help create the dialogue needed to save America's honor.
Nobrow:
The Culture of Marketing,
the Marketing of Culture
Highbrow, Lowbrow, or Nobrow
"It used to be that reading poetry, going to the opera, or attending art galleries meant you were
part
of the cultural elite. Watching television and mainstream movies, and listening to top 40 hits was
considered more common, a kind of cultural slumming. In America, where equality is the ideal, people
don't like to talk about class distinctions, but they love to show it. But lately, it's getting
harder to distinguish one from the other as professional wrestlers become governors, Michael Graves makes
high priced teapots for Target, and Metallica dabbles in symphonic music. Join Michael Krasny and guests
as
they take a look at the changes in culture and class: High-brow, Low-brow or No-brow?" Nobrow:
that the distinction between high culture and low culture has collapsed, making the idea of highbrow and
lowbrow absurd. If, after all, the home of serious, complex journalism, hitherto unworried by such troubling
concepts as marketing and sales, was now running features on rap musicians and chasing a fragmented mass
market, what hope was there for those who thought of themselves as the cultural elite?
Culture of Celebrity - "culture" no longer, for that whole congeries of institutions, relations, kinship patterns, linguistic forms, and the rest for which the early anthropologists meant it to stand. "The celebrity, is a person who is well-known for his well-knownness".
>Zoot Suit Drape Shape and Reet Pleats
Cab Calloway knew something about extreme styles. In his The Hepster's Dictionary he listed "ZOOT
(adj.):
exaggerated." Just under it, necessarily, was "ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only
totally and truly American civilian suit." He makes it sound patriotic, but some Americans looked at
the
zoot suit and were as horrified as only an older generation looking at the peculiarities of a younger
generation can be. If the zoot suit was truly American, so were the anxieties it caused, and the race riots
it
sparked. Kathy Peiss, a professor of American history, has looked at these interpretations of a peculiar
garment, its history, and its influence.Harold Fox, Who Took Credit For the Zoot Suit, Dies at 86
Dress Codes of Mexican Gangs
In the early 1930's and 1940's the fashionable Zoot Suits were inherited from a man named Mickey
Garcia. The Zoot Suit or the Pachuco look is composed of a felt hat with a long feather in it called a
“tapa”
or “tanda”. The shirt was creased and called a “lisa”. A “carlango” or long, loose fitting coat was used.
The
shoes, known as “calcos”, were French toe style or Stacey Adams brand and were constantly shined. To perfect
the style a long chain was attached to a belt loop that hung past the knees and into the side pocket of the
pants (Valdez, 2000).