Quite frankly, I've never really understood school dress codes. As a kid, even though I never personally had an issue with the dress code, I always wondered why the school was so concerned about it in the first place - like what, wearing clothes that violate the dress code will suddenly make me unable to learn? In particular, I remember hats being a big issue. Not that I even owned a hat, but I couldn't understand why, if I did, I wasn't allowed to wear it in school. And no one could ever give me a straight answer about it, either. I'd always ask the teacher at the beginning of the year when we were going over school rules, and not once did I ever get an answer that made sense. Usually it was something about it being impolite to wear hats inside. Why is it impolite? I have no clue, and neither did the people who gave that answer. It's just a societal norm, and we have to follow it because everyone else follows it. As a result of getting ***** non-answers like that whenever I questioned the rules, to this day, I'm still convinced school dress codes exist for the sole purpose of beating the individuality out of students - it seems it's just another way to enforce conformity.