One Houston father is fuming mad after his five-year-old daughter was reprimanded for wearing a spaghetti-strap sundress because it was deemed too revealing.
In a blog post for the Houston Press, Jef Rouner wrote that he picked up his daughter from school one day to find her wearing a T-shirt over her spaghetti-strapped rainbow dress and jeans underneath it. He was shocked.
"I'm not surprised to see the dress code shaming come into my house," Rouner wrote. "I have after all been sadly waiting for it since the ultrasound tech said, 'It's a girl.' I didn't think, though, that it would make an appearance when she was 5 years old."
He goes on to defend his daughter's dress: "She's worn it to church, and in the growing heat she was looking forward to wearing it a lot because it's light and comfortable."
What upset him most about the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District's dress code — which prohibits showing midsection, torso, back, and chest — is that it is clearly designed with only females in mind. Rouner plans to discuss the school's decision to ban his daughter's dress at an upcoming parent conference, according to the Huffington Post.
"There are literally no male-specific guidelines anywhere on that list," he writes. "I mean prohibitions against exposing the chest or torso could hypothetically apply to boys except that they don't. They don't sell boys clothes that do that."
"We still live in a country where someone can decide the shoulders of, and I can't stress this enough, a 5-year-old girl are so distracting that they must be sent away and decently hidden," he said of the restrictive dress code.
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