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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, your DS doesn't have a dress shirt? Don't you go to church or a funeral or a school dance? To answer your question, my DS dressed up on game days, but it was 10 years ago.[/quote]

This will be hard for you to imagine, but plenty of families do not go to church. And do your kids really go to so many funerals that their funeral clothes still fit them?! [/quote]

At this age teenagers are going to plenty of events that would require a dress shirt and dress shoes. [b]Things like job interviews, school events, dances, funerals (yes, funerals) etc. [/b]where it would be expected to have some level of dress requirements higher than a t-shirt and shorts and crocs and that it would require at least putting on a dress shirt/shoes. It wasn't even a jacket. Give me a break. There is nothing wrong with asking a kid that wants the privilege of playing a sport to dress up (and we are really talking about high end business casual with a tie) to demonstrate they want to play that sport. It sets a tone.[/quote]

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This is about the first game of the fall season freshman year.   These boys are 13 or young 14 years old.  "Job interviews" are walking to over to the neighbor's house to discuss mowing their lawn or walking their dog--no tie needed.   Middle school dances do not require ties at his middle school.   Not everyone has tons of people close to them die by the age of 14.
Like I said, this was a couple years ago, so in my son's case he and his classmates were just coming out of that virtual school for Covid year--no one was going anywhere fancy.   So even if he had those clothes for events prior to covid, a year and a half later they wouldn't still fit him because most boys grow a lot in the middle school years.

Of course he had stuff that was nicer than a t shirt and shorts--he had things like polo shirts and khakis...but that was not acceptable.  It had to be a dress shirt, tie, and dress shoes.[/quote]

We aren't church people OP, and we were in the same boat - our boys didn't have suits or business attire in 9th grade. We weren't going to weddings or funerals on a regular basis, and the kids were growing so it wasn't worth investing in this stuff, especially formal shoes.  The sports team demands sound over the top - who is enforcing this?

I was surprised when I saw sports professionals shown arriving at stadiums in fancy suits, diamond jewelry etc. Maybe that stems from this school tradition.  When I was preparing for my sports events, I wore a tracksuit.[/quote]

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