The thing Sunny has found hardest to adjust to about her new high school is the uniforms she has to wear every day: polo shirts in red, black, white or grey (ugh) and Dockers-style pants or shorts in tan, navy blue or black (double ugh). No cute pleated plaid skirts! No white button-down shirts! Nothing cute of any kind!
But strangely enough, the dress code says nothing about her shoes, except that they have to have a closed toe and heel. So she used my fabric paints to alter her white Converses, and now wears these to school every day:
She often wears them with shorts and hot pink knee socks. The dress code is completely silent on socks, which seems to me like a serious error in their program. Any little crack in the system, and someone as determined as Sunny will wriggle right through it.
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Megan 10.01.09 at 3:18 pm
Glad she has found a way to express herself. Hallelujah for fabric paints.
mary 10.02.09 at 12:20 am
I say it is discrimination that there are no skirts or skorts. One should be able to look different from a boy if one wants to. For what it is worth! Mary
Nancy 10.04.09 at 11:56 pm
I agree with mary…what’s with having no option for skirts? They could specify waist band at waist and knee length, perfectly easily.