Concerns about Lady Mariner sports teams, regarding sleeveless practice shirts, have caused the administration to require all male athletes to practice with their shirts on. The change was made in the interest of creating equal clothing requirements for both male and female athletes.
Yet only one, Christian, Cross Country team in our division, wears running uniforms with sleeves.
Sports apparel deemed appropriate by one community may not be considered proper by another. Then again, mankind is constantly adapting to its ever-changing social climate.
Dress-codes vary along with the development of communities. Differentiating religious doctrine, economic situations, reputations to uphold in addition to personal heritage, affect each community’s approach to dress requirements.
In response to appropriating dress-code policies, Monica Davis stated: “As long as it’s not offensive to people… then it should be fine.”
The progression of dress-codes is almost like ethics; humanity’s standards of right and wrong change as additional perturbances present themselves.
Evident lack of clothing wasn’t always so reprehensible. Archaic art forms — sculptures, portraits, Tibetan Thangkas — commonly depicted entirely unclothed or semi-nude people and deities; whether or not the entity was male or female. Men originally participated in the Olympics without any clothing.
People change, circumstances change, but why must the extent to which people clothe themselves have to follow suit?