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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes at our public HS.  You can get inexpensive pants/shirt/tie at Target or Kohls.  It's a respect thing[/quote]

respect? what? why do schools require this? it is insanity to expect public school kids to buy dress clothes to wear to school. it is such a waste.

reminds me of the dumb black and white outfits required for 3rd grade violin. [/quote]

I played a team sport in high school in Fairfax (admittedly 20 years ago, my goodness time flies!) and we dressed up (home game) or wore our jersey (away) on Game Day. It was not a school mandated requirement, it was the culture within the team. The Captains explained to underclassman or new teammates at the beginning of the season what to wear--I understood it as mostly a bonding/camaraderie exercise and, to answer your question about respect, acknowledging that Game Day is a special occasion and we were about to implement all the hard work we'd been practicing together to open a can of whoop-ass on another school.

As far as "dress" clothes are concerned for home games, I'm pretty sure everyone just wore what they considered their nicest clothes. For some that was shirt/slacks or khakis/tie/others that may have been a polo and maybe they had Mom iron their jeans that day. If they got called out the response was usually something like "this is my nicest sh!+, what more do you want from me?" and everyone moved on.[/quote]

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