The Fashion Industry - 1447 Words

The fashion industry; also better known as the most common yet expensive commerce that has topped the charts in necessities for centuries. Between the hundreds of fashion magazines, â€Å"Fashion Weeks† in Paris, London, New York, everywhere in between, and the countless wannabe bargain fashionistas, fashion has not only inserted itself into wealthy, decorative cities but also into the lives and environments of public schools and their students. The insertion of so called â€Å"fashion† into the public school environment can be taken either as noble or corrupt; however in this case, there is nothing spectacular about the so called â€Å"fashion† and or â€Å"self-representation† that students are claiming to be wearing in today’s society. Not only has the†¦show more content†¦Shortly after the LBUSD court case, more and more school throughout the country began to follow in the footsteps of the LBUSD, and applied school uniform policies to t heir schools. Even though many countries around the world have had the idea of unifomrs established in all types of schools for decades now, the uniform trend is still relatively new for US schools. However, many US schools have now adopted and adapted to the trend. According to the Institute of Education Sciences, in the 1999-2000 school year, only 12 percent of US public schools required students to wear uniforms, and in the 2009-2010 school year, about 19 percent of public schools had mandatory uniforms; which is a noticeable increase (Chittom). In 1996, at the height of this topic, Bill Clinton’s administration along with the Department of Education, published a â€Å"Manual on Public Uniforms†, giving those public schools that chose to stay on the traditional track to still have some sort of order to their student’s attire. With Clinton’s administrative publishing still in effect, the US currently has about â€Å"30 percent of all public schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that require school uniforms (Chittom)† and are still