The Din about dress code

Just as students of the kaduna polytechnic tunduwada welcome students back to school, its management has begun full implementation of a new dress code to fight indecent dressing on the campus.The dress code which does not necessarily prescribe what should be worn on campus but which frowns at indecent and provocative wears emerged following consensus reached at the management’s meeting upon resumption for the semester recently. The authorities of the Kaduna polytechnic have pledged to enforce a new dress code on students to maintain decency in the institution of which students of the institution are to adhere strictly on the code.Recently, there has been a lot of noise about the controversial issue of Dress Codes on our campus. Yes, I said “controversial” because there are so many varying views on this Dress code issue. However, before I begin to present the very diverse views on the dress code,The Dress Code in tunduwa polytechnic campus is simply a law passed by the authorities of the school in order to ensure that students dress properly and decently. The Dress code committee prohibits certain types of dressing considered to be indecent for the students in the campus. It goes further to specify specific uniform dress for students in some professional courses such as Mass communication,mechanical engineering, SLT and among others. Furthermore, in order to ensure compliance to the dress code law, the school authorities have empowered the school security personnel to turn back any student not properly dressed from the school premises. This was operational here in kadpoly. Where students were checked at the main gate before being allowed into the school.Aside the security, lecturers have also been empowered to send out from lecture halls, students who do not comply with the dress code. In an interview section with one of the dress code committee Mal.Shehu he said,the sudden glamour everywhere for dress code on the campus,such as the deafening din is whether we like it or not we must all agree that the type of dressing on our campuses nowadays can best be described as outrageous, dangerously seductive and flagrantly indecent we learnt from History and anthropology that early human beings were naked wanderers. But as Evolution progressed, Humans became wiser and began to live in houses and to wear clothes. unfortunately, we are now witnessing a backslide or reverse of evolution because it seems that we are going back to the days of early man by the mode of dressing most students wear to the campus all in the name of fashion.” Additionally, it has led to the molestation of so many students by some staff and on the other hand, molestation of staff by students. Having considered some of the problems caused by the indecent dressing here in kadpoly today and against the background of religious teachings as well as the fact that these indecent modes of dressing do not tally with our culture as Nigerians, the need for a dress code to stem the dangerous tide of outrageous dressing, in my opinion is pertinent. The dress code affects both male and female students, the greater part of the brunt is borne by the female students and this is not surprising. We all know that some boys are in the habit of plaiting their hair and wearing ear rings, but by far, girls pose a greater danger to the society by their types of dressing which includes such “wears” as spaghetti tops, body hug, transparent materials, miniskirts and generally, outfits that reveal almost all their natural endowments. One is forced to ponder about the cause of these indecent dressing. Lots of people have rightly pointed fingers at the increasing westernization of all facets of our lives and the gradual but sure erosion of our social values and norms.