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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardy uses the term "uniform" when in fact it really should use the term that St Albans uses: dress code. My son attends Hardy and wears Khaki pants and blue polo shirts and pullovers. There is no special uniform store or catalog where we purchase these items. I buy them in regular stores like Target, Lands End and the Gap. He looks like any prep school kid.

Perhaps I will suggest to Principal Pride that the language be changed to "dress code." Maybe then this fear of uniforms will go away.

Oh wait. What am I thinking? Folks will then find another reason to find make disparaging comments. I'm sure if Hardy kids were allowed to wear whatever they wanted, there would be posters here talking about how "ghetto" and inappropriate some of the students' outfits are.

Some of these comments about Hardy's "uniforms" are just thinly veiled racist comments. No one thinks Georgetown Visitation is sending the "wrong signal" by requiring what TYPE OF SHOES the girls wear. (They are required to wear Sperry 2-eyed boat shoes in a choice of 3 colors) And no one thinks St Albans students in their khakis and blazers "look silly" in Ward 3. But God forbid a kid at a public school in Georgetown is wearing khakis and a polo shirt. It MUST be because there are urban thugs there that need controlling. Yeah, that's got to be the only take-away. [/quote]

A dress code at Hardy would certainly make more sense than a uniform -- as long as the code doesn't specify what colors the kids can wear, which would sound too much like a Headmaster's authoritarian fetish writ large to me (seriously, does no one else see how a pervy adult would appreciate seeing a kid in those outdated uniforms at Albans and Visitation?).  (boat club/poolboys/japanese schoolgirl uniforms with short skirts -- yeesh).

St. Alban's and and Visitation are simply anachronistic examples of rule-based attire:  most normal people think such restrictive codes don't make sense in the modern era, either.  Elite private school parents tend to impart so much weight to the perceived social status of Albans and Visitation that they overlook or ignore the 19th-century nature of the respective polo club/stepford uniforms.[/quote]

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