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Sin I'm not sure we've caught up to the middle east, maybe in some parts of the South, the so-called bible belt. I do know in my public high school in the Northeast, serving three adjacent towns there was a dress code. Females were forbidden bare shoulders, bare middies (even an inch), jeans with holes in them and skirts above the knees. We all kept hoodies in our lockers which avoided one being sent home for above the waist violations. The rational often given was not that such wear was indecent but that it would distract the boys and interfere with the learning experience. Evidently college boys concentrate better because at my uni we can wear anything that won't get you arrested on the street.