Every once in a while a teacher would tell someone to take off their hat inside the classroom. Kind of like a gentle reminder that the teacher was still the authority in there. Does that count as a dress code?
We had to be clothed. Which is fair enough, as it is quite cold in the UK.
Primary school (ages 4 to 11) - We didn’t have a uniform.
High school (11 to 16) - School uniform. Jumper, tie, white shirt, grey trousers, black shoes (not trainers). No jewlery. For girls, skirts couldn’t be above the knee (this was rarely enforced though unless someone was taking the piss).
Don’t show up naked.
I don’t ever remember hearing anyone being told not to wear something.
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No bandanas or masks
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No “Gang Fonts” (like the freakin’ ‘ye olde english’ font)
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No all red or all blue shirts
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Nothing with profanity
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Skirts had to be at least a certain length long
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No visible cleavage
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No “sagging” (this was when that was the style of the time)
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No chains (like wallet chains or sometimes the goth kids had chains on their jackets and shit; little necklaces or bracelets were ok.)
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No hats in the classroom, and hats worn on campus could not be worn backwards or sideways.
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No facial piercings
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No tattoos (idk if just visible or not; nobody I knew or knew of ever had ever actually gotten in trouble for this)
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Not super formal, but I remember things like the “two finger length rule”, all straps must be at least two fingerlengths wide.
Grew up in the middle of the Bible belt.
In both grade school and currently uni (even for long-distance students), it’s the same thing. A short sleeve white dress shirt, a sunset-colored tie, a grey pleaded skirt that goes to the knees, sunset-colored socks, and shoes in the color of the skirt. There is an optional sunset-colored sleeveless sweater that goes with it. Anything can be worn over all this as long as you leave it elsewhere during class, but the only thing the school provides for that is an optional varsity jacket that comes in either lime green or reddish purple. The only two exceptions are during picture day and during the graduation ceremony when people can wear dresses, which I did during one of my graduations (uni graduation being escalative and out of order; I’m not “done” with uni).
In situations like I’ve been in, where being a student also doubles as a job sometimes (in human services class, a part of the education is diving into taking care of other people, and for the whole school year, I landed myself a teachers’ role to the kids that come in which is a part of being taught), even for long-distance students, the sweater changes to a cooler color to help the people I’m presiding over distinguish me.
