History Main / NoDressCode

** By contrast, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' exaggerates this trope to absurd levels. Green Dolphin Street Prison is [[TheAlcatraz Alcatraz]] in [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]], famous for being brutal and inescapable, and possesses guards who won't hesitate to shoot inmates with shotguns, but the number of inmates who wear anything actually resembling a prison uniform can be counted on one hand. About a good two thirds of the characters [[BareYourMiddriff have their navels out,]] and one prisoner by the name of D an G wears a damn ''metal helmet with a spike on the top'' along with what looks like a bear skin rug over a toga.

* ''Series/Euphoria'' has most of the girls in clothes that would raise eyebrows at most high schools, most prominently Cassie Howard.

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* TruthInTelevision in most German schools. It's practically unheard of for someone to be sent home for their choice of dress.
* ''Can'' be TruthInTelevision anywhere, depending how much effort the faculty feel up to putting in to enforcing it.
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* In the ''Comicbook/RobinSeries'', Gotham Heights High School has no discernible dress code with students wearing short dresses, [[BareYourMidriff crop tops]], spaghetti straps, halter tops, hats, shirts with slogans, excessively baggy pants and all manner of piercings and hair styles without reprimand.

* All the girls who attend Midtown High in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' seem to follow this trope, even Mary Jane, who is supposed to be less popular and even slightly geeky compared to her 616 version.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', a minor character named Brittany wears a pink and white shirt that [[BareYourMidriff exposes her belly button]] through out [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the movie]] and the entire series.

Subtrope of DressCode. Can be a result of HollywoodDressCode, which dictates certain female types ''must'' dress in a manner inappropriate to a school setting because of her character type (such as the slutty cheerleader must be dressed skanky or we won't know who she is). Akin to DawsonCasting, as both tropes give the impression that teenagers are much more adult than in reality. Schools like this are likely to have a SuddenSchoolUniform episode that snaps back to no rules afterward.

* Outfits that BareYourMidriff are so common among the main characters of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' and the other students at [[WizardingSchool Alfea]] that you might think that ''is'' the dress code. It may help that Alfea is an all-girls school, though at least one teacher took issue with it in a throw-away line. That's not even counting their fairy forms, most of which seem to have a mandated DangerouslyShortSkirt.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', a minor character named Brittany wears a pink and white shirt that [[BareYourMidriff exposes her belly button]] through out [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the movie]] and the entire series

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' few of the female background students of Dimmsdale Elementary wears [[BareYourMidriff belly button exposing shirts]].

** Averted in season 3, episode 3 of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', "U Got the Look". When Manny starts dressing provocatively at school to change her image, [[RealityEnsues she gets in trouble for breaking the school dress code]]. This is basically forgotten about in all subsequent episodes though.

Real-world {{High School}}s have {{Dress Code}}s -- no short skirts, no cleavage, no profane slogans -- that their students must follow. Even the most liberal public schools have some kind of limits on student attire (even if it is simply "no shoes, no shirt, no service").

* No US high school would allow female students to wear skirts as short as the protagonists do in ''Film/AsianSchool
girls'' Inadvertently {{Lampshaded}} when one of the strippers at The Kitty is wearing the same skirt as part of her stage outfit.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy'' had a midriff baring PE teacher in school.

* In one issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' that forced the heroes into going into school, Bunnie shows up in an outfit that looks like she raided [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy Duke's]] wardrobe.

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* In one issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' that forced the heroes into going into school, Bunnie shows up in an outfit that looks like she raided [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Daisy's]] wardrobe!

* Sam of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' wears the same [[BareYourMidriff midriff-exposing]] tanktop [[LimitedWardrobe every day]]. [[AlphaBitch Paulina]] and several other girls wear navel exposing outfits as well.

Characters who show too much off are AlwaysFemale - the guy equivalents are exposed underwear, which has been out of fashion (at least in some areas of the country) since the late '00s and has never been considered effective {{Fanservice}}; and T-shirts with "controversial" slogans, which are reserved in fiction for AnAesop about free speech. On the other hand, since baseball caps make lighting someone's face difficult in live-action and are difficult to render through 360 degrees in animation, sometimes a "no hats in school" policy is mentioned to justify their near-total absence.

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* In the ''Comicbook/RobinSeries'' Gotham Heights High School has no discernible dress code with students wearing short dresses, [[BareYourMidriff crop tops]], spaghetti straps, halter tops, hats, shirts with slogans, excessively baggy pants and all manner of piercings and hair styles without reprimand.
* All the girls who attend Midtown High in ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan seem to follow this trope, even Mary Jane, who is supposed to be less popular and even slightly geeky compared to her 616 version.

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* In ''Film/ScaryMovie'' this is lampshaded for laughs. Buffy arrives at school dressed modestly in a cardigan. Once her father is gone, she changes into a {{Stripperific}} outfit and attends school that way.
* In ''Film/MeanGirls'' the plastics get away with performing in a school pageant wearing [[SexySantaDress sexy Santa outfits]] that are closer to lingerie than costumes. Also applies when Regina accidentally starts the trend of wearing shirts with holes cut over the breasts. Given that the principal himself raises his hand when asked "How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?", this may be an example of how just ''strong'' Regina's influence could be.

* Most of the girl's outfits in ''Film/BringItOn'', which seem to consist of cropped tops and PaintedOnPants. Even the cheerleading outfits would most likely have gotten them banned from competing.
* Modern-day B-movie ''AmericanHighSchool'' is a parody of the modern teen movie, and as such has literally all of its female characters (teachers included) coming to school dressed as if they were headed to a rave (or even an orgy). Even the guys get in on this; most male students at the school are topless 80% of the time.

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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' was mostly G-rated, but all three of the primary female characters on the show routinely wore crop-tops, mini's and stripperiffic pants to school (also the odd strapless top, which is never allowed at any school in America, or see-through tops with little more than bras worn underneath).
* Most of Creator/DanSchneider's series include this, be it ''Series/AllThat'', ''Series/Zoey101'', ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' or ''Series/{{Victorious}}''. ''Series/Zoey101'' is probably the worst offender, given that the characters are all under 18 and all of the central female characters seem to be competing to see who can expose the most skin, whether in class or not.

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* Parodied in the hit Website/CollegeHumor sketch series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZ8L6SZmaA "The Problem with Jeggings"]], where the teacher flips out over his students wearing clothes that qualify as borderline nudity.
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' has one male and one female example; most of the cast who don't wear their high school cheerleading or football team uniform at all times dress fairly conservatively, but Than wear [[WalkingShirtlessScene an open jacket with no shirt under it]], and Saison wears a [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]], [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] shirt so brief that her [[WardrobeMalfunction nip slips]] come from [[{{Underboobs}} below]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' the title characters and many female background characters wore outfits that are more appropriate in night clubs. But for some odd reason, belly buttons weren't visible until later seasons.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy'' had a midriff baring PE teacher in school

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* Parodied in the hit Website/CollegeHumor sketch series, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZ8L6SZmaA "The Problem with Jeggings."]]

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Characters who show too much off are AlwaysFemale - the guy equivalents are exposed underwear, which has been out of fashion (at least in some areas of the country) since the late '00s and has never been considered effective FanService; and T-shirts with "controversial" slogans, which are reserved in fiction for AnAesop about free speech. On the other hand, since baseball caps make lighting someone's face difficult in live action and are difficult to render through 360 degrees in animation, sometimes a "no hats in school" policy is mentioned to justify their near-total absence.

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* In ''Film/MeanGirls'' the plastics get away with performing in a school pageant wearing [[SexySantaDress sexy Santa outfits]] that are closer to lingerie than costumes. Also applies when Regina accidentally starts the trend of wearing shirts with holes cut over the breasts. Given that the principal himself raises his hand when asked "who has felt personally victimised by Regina George?", this may be an example of how just ''strong'' Regina's influence could be.