Everyone has their own sense of style - and as long as they feel comfortable and confident in their clothing, there shouldn't be a problem. However, one woman ended up being isolated from her classmates because her teacher thought her top would insight a "riot" at school.
Taking to Reddit, she explained how her school has a strict dress code and has banned certain shades, claiming they're "gang colours". She said: "I went to a school where we weren't allowed to wear red because it was a gang colour. I showed up wearing a red shirt one day, and I got sent to the office. The lady at the desk told me to take off my shirt and I could go back to class."
Despite telling her teacher she didn't have another top to change in to, her teacher wouldn't let her return to class until she removed her top.
"She couldn't seem to wrap her head around the fact that me running around in nothing but a bra would be worse than me wearing a red shirt," she added.
The woman was called out for being "difficult" and was told she could spend the entire day sat in the teacher's office if she wasn't going to abide by the rules.
"I sat there until she left for her lunch break, then I left the office and went back to class. Shockingly, there were no riots held on account of my red shirt," she added.
But this wasn't the only time she was called into the headteacher's office for "violating the dress code", as she was once made an example of for wearing too many accessories.
She said: "I also got sent to the office for 'over-accessorising', which nobody would clearly define to me and for dying my hair blue during summer school.
"I didn't think summer school would care what colour my hair was, but they said if I showed up the next day with blue hair that I would be kicked out.
"So I dyed it bright red with white bangs. They let me keep it because it wasn't blue."
While most users couldn't believe her school considered red to be a "gang colour", others shared their own experiences with being dress coded at school.
One user said: "I went to high school in Texas where it was like over 100 degrees in the summer. We still weren't allowed to wear shorts."
Another user added: "We had a school uniform at my school. It even specified what colour hair ties we were allowed to have."
A third user said: "We had the "fingertip" rule. Which means that if you stand with your arms straight down by your side, your shorts had to be past your fingertips. They made me change once when my fingertips were exactly even with my shorts.
"Annoying, but the bigger issue I have with it is that they did not enforce it with the boys. A bunch of guys in my high school had a day where they all wore short, tight spandex and the teacher's thought it was hilarious."
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