LIVINGSTON Ala.
The University of West Alabama’s 1,850 students aren’t being forced to wear uniforms, but a new campus dress code stresses what not to wear.
Pants can’t be too revealing, specifically sagging or low-riding pants, for example, and nothing can be worn on the head, unless it is religious in nature.
Also banned: any sort of revealing shirt, such as tube tops, netted jerseys or cutoffs. Shirts with writing deemed obscene are banned. Sleeveless undershirts are not to be worn outside residence halls. Students cannot go barefoot or wear only socks or cleats inside.
“It’s more an appropriate dress policy than a code telling you to wear khaki pants and blue shirt. We’re not going that direction,” Danny Buckalew, vice president of student affairs, told The Tuscaloosa News for a story Wednesday.
While drafting the policy, Buckalew said he came across some colleges and departments within state universities with dress requirements, but found no other university-wide code.
For a student’s normal day, the dress code allows casual clothes such as jeans, flip flops, T-shirts and shorts.
