Rules to dress by!

I started high school in Houston, Texas at J. Frank Dobie.  Dobie had some very strict dress codes.  For girls you were not allowed to wear pants unless you wore matching pant suits which meant the top and bottom came as a set and matched exactly in color and fabric.  If you chose to wear a dress, which they encouraged, it could be no longer or shorter than two inches above the crack at the back of your knee.  You must understand that in the 1970's the midi and maxi lengths were very popular.  The midi length came between the knee and ankle, the maxi came to the ankle.  Now you would think that a school so concerned with modesty would jump at the opportunity to have dresses mid calf or ankle length especially since it was a two story school with stairs, but the school thought these styles were extreme and therefore, although modest, were not acceptable.
For the boys, again remember in the 1970's fashionable hair length for boys was longer.  Dobie did not allow any facial hair of any degree and the hair on the boys head could not touch the collar, the ears or the eye brows.  The hair could not be too short either, again because it was "extreme."  Boys were to wear dress slacks and button down shirts to school.
I began my Junior year at Dobie and that was the year they relaxed the dress code.  The girls could now wear dress slacks and the boys could wear polo shirts.  That was it, the big change.  We were grateful however.