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A dress code is simply the standard expectation of the way people dress depending on the occasion. These occasions depend on people's religion, also depends on where someone's going such as school or a business meeting. Dress codes are made to be an expectation on what to wear depending on where you're going out to. Different places expect you to wear specific clothing and the same things goes for religion. In religion there's certain type of clothing one must wear in order to not get weird looks in public.

Dress codes can show a lot about a person's life and wealth that they have. Dress codes can indicate where certain people fall into social class and also can tell what religion they are due to dress codes. Believe it or not but dress code allows people to depict their mood whether it's a lazy day or maybe an important day and can also depict a new change in someone's life.

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Europe

In Europe the dress code isn't really different from the ones in the U.S. Many people dress around the same in Europe, this meaning showing up to business meeting in comprehendible clothing or when you go to church. One thing in Europe which is very common is that people don't wear casual clothes when going out to eat. Something small such as getting coffee with a friend can make people dress up less casual. Going back to the old days it was quiet the same with this being people dressing up the same in a way. As time went by people started to differentiate from each other by wearing a bit of different clothing. These different type of clothing slowly started to become dress codes and these dress codes depicted wealth. The more rich would wear ornamented garments and the peasants would wear common clothing that included plain pants and shoes and cloaks.

Though in Europe today there isn't many strict dress codes but there are still expectations on what to wear during specific events or being religious.

The Americas
In today's North America there really isn't any dress code unless it has to deal with school, work, religion. In school there are plenty of dress codes and a few examples are men are not permitted to wear simple tank tops that shows a lot and they can't wear their pants too low. With the women in school there are a lot more strict dress codes in America and a few example of this women are not to wear anything that is too revealing. It's quiet similar to the Europeans because there really isn't no dress code when going out but there's more of an expectation on what to wear depending on the occasion whether it's a party, wedding, meeting, church(religion).

In North America school the fashion has changed from the 80's to 2021 especially with the women. Fashion for the women became more revealing and as a result the schools decided to enforce very strict dress codes.

Workplace
Most often employees/workers are required to wear certain clothing in order for them to work. Depending on where you work you would maybe need to wear suit and tie for business meeting and if you're a fast food worker you will probably need to wear the specific uniform for that fast food place.

In Western countries you will noticed that the dress codes for bankers and lawyers are quite the same which is to wear a suit and tie to look professional. Some businesses observe that anti-discrimination laws restricts their determining what is appropriate and inappropriate workplace clothing. Requiring men and women to dress differently at the workplace can be challenged because the gender-specific dress codes would be based on one sex and could be considered stereotypical. Most businesses have authority in determining and establishing what workplace clothes they can require of their workers. Generally, a carefully drafted dress code applied consistently does not violate anti-discrimination laws. So long as the dress code does not favor one gender over the other it is usually acceptable by law for employers to have a private dress code.

It has been argued that such a distinction in a dress code is not discriminatory because both sexes have rules about their appearance. Darlene Jespersen worked at Harrah's Casino for more than 20 years and found that the makeup and dress code was not only unattainable but degrading. Jespersen found that the ‘Personal Best' policy was not true to her natural appearance as it required a full face of makeup including foundation, powder, blush, mascara, and lipstick. Jespersen stated that this policy “forced her to be … ‘dolled up' like a sexual object, and … took away her credibility as an individual and as a person.” In opposition men who worked at Harrah's Casino were banned from wearing makeup, nail polish, and other traditionally female attires. Judge Kozinski argued that hyperfemininity was a burden that only women employees suffered. Kozinski stated that the time, effort and expense was more of a hindrance than just being banned from wearing makeup. However despite these efforts, in the ruling, it was decided that women did not have a larger burden in the requirements of the dress code but two judges disagreed and argued that makeup takes more time and money and that sex stereotyping occurred because women's bare faces were seen as less desirable.

Business casual
Business casual dress is a popular workplace dress code that emerged in white-collar workplaces in Western countries in the 1990s, especially in the United States and Canada. Many information technology businesses in Silicon Valley were early adopters of this dress code. In contrast to formal business wear such as suits and neckties (the international standard business attire), the business casual dress code has no generally accepted definition; its interpretation differs widely among organizations and is often a cause of sartorial confusion among workers. Everywhere in the world work requires a specific dress code in order to work.

The job search engine Monster.com offers this definition, "In general, business casual means dressing professionally, looking relaxed, yet neat and pulled together." A more pragmatic definition is that business casual dress is the mid ground between formal business clothes and street clothes. Generally, neckties are excluded from business casual dress, unless worn in nontraditional ways. There's an argument between whether or not blue jeans or denim jeans are ok to wear in some workplaces. Some work do allow jeans such as fast food restaurant but in the business profession it is not ok to wear jeans.

United States education
In 1996, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced his support for the idea of school uniforms by stating, "School uniforms are one step that may help break the cycle of violence, truancy and disorder by helping young students understand what really counts is what kind of people they are." Many school districts in the United States took up the idea. In all 70 schools, comprising around 60,000 students, switched to school uniforms. School uniforms have been used with several schools to teach students how to dress appropriately, and in cases it has worked, more likely that not private school are the ones that enforce school uniform but public school allows students to wear what they want as long as it complies with the dress code.

One common criticism of school dress codes in the U.S. is that they infringe on students' right to self-expression. There have been many court cases regarding school dress code, the first being Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which involved students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam war. Most dress codes have to deal with too much showing of skins nowadays instead of gang affiliation.

Within the educational system, the Federation supports professional dress code standards for all teachers.

Dress code violations
"Communicative" dress code violations are violations where the clothing has implications of hate, violence, gang-affiliation, and today dress codes violation can be by just showing too much skin. In cases where dress code rules in public school systems have been violated by non-communicative clothing, courts repeatedly legitimize dress code discrimination based on gender, minor punishment for dress code violations in school can just be having to wear a big shirt to cover up everything. Amongst the transgender populations, gender based dress codes are primarily enforced against individuals who do not yet pass.

Violation of dress codes have become a subject of school protests, such as at a high school in Toronto, which had a protest after a student was disciplined for wearing a crop top. Students at multiple schools have protested gender discrimination in the application of dress codes. There has been successful protest due to the women thinking that the dress codes is specifically targeting them.

Dress code backlash
Certain dress code restrictions in schools across North America have been accused of perpetuating sexist standards. In March 2014, a group of middle-school girls from Evanston, Illinois, protested their school's dress code, which prohibited them from wearing leggings to school under the pretense that it was "too distracting for boys." Thirteen-year-old student Sophie Hasty was quoted in the Evanston Review saying that "not being able to wear leggings because it's 'too distracting for boys' is giving us the impression we should be guilty for what guys do." In a Time magazine article covering the incident, Eliana Dockterman argued that teachers and administration in these schools are "walking the fine line between enforcing a dress code and slut shaming."

On Monday, September 22, 2014, "about 100 people walked out of Bingham high school in South Jordan, Utah" after more than a dozen girls were turned away from a homecoming dance for wearing dresses which violated the dress code. "School staff allegedly lined up girls against a wall as they arrived and banished about two dozen for having dresses which purportedly showed too much skin and violated the rules." It is believed that this act was awkward and humiliating towards the female students, which spawned the walkouts.

In August 2021, one student's mother criticized her daughter's school for continuing to enforce clothing restrictions on girls while allowing students to opt out of mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There have been several issues with dress code backlash happening to several students, such as a 15-year-old girl who attended Edmonton High school, she was banned from attending her school due to dying her hair blue, this resulted in the girl suing her principal for discrimination. In another case, a 16-year-old girl was sent home because she refused to take her eyebrow ring out. Situation like these are very common in today's world, there are a lot of statement from young women and teachers that contradict each other.