Provocative or Improper attire means inappropriate and unsuitable office attire.
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What is improper dressing?
Indecent dressing is a social phenomenon that is done by youths. It simply means deliberately exposure of one’s body to the public. In fact, the practice does not conform to the norm that value of the society, particularly in the African society. This practice is now common in public places including places of worship.
What are the effects of improper dressing?
Indecent dressing has negative effects on individuals, the country, and the educational process. This strange way of dressing can result in sexual harassment of the wearer, abortion, and contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, poor academic performance and even the desire to steal.
What do you understand by indecent dressing?
Indecent dressing simply means deliberate exposure of one’s body to the public. This practice is contrary to the acceptable norms and values of the society.
What are the types of indecent dressing?
Types of Indecent Dressing
- Sleeveless tops.
- Body hugs.
- Short Knickers.
- Transparent clothes.
- Head gears e.g. Canopy head ties.
- Bogus fashion jewelries.
- Spaghetti tops.
- OFF shoulders.
What are the causes of indecent dressing?
One of the major root causes of indecent dressing among our youth is peer influence, most particularly those in the tertiary institutions. Some join bad association and immediately their mode of dressing changed.
Is indecent dressing a crime?
It should be noted that no legislation has made a clear provision for indecent dressing but rather indecent acts or indecent exposure. Section 231 of the Criminal Code makes indecent act illegal.
How do you stop indecent dressing?
To curb the menace of indecent dressing, parents are urged to be good models in morals to their children, give them attention and regulate the type of films they watch at home. The mass media must promote good moral values while religious leaders must preach against bad habits.
What is dressing in culture?
Dress culture belongs to the sub-division of anthropology called ethnology, which looks at cultures in their traditional forms, and in their adaptation to the changing conditions in the modern world.
Is sleeveless indecent?
No. Sleeveless garments are not indecent anywhere.
How does culture affect dressing?
Therefore, culture influence dressing of the people greatly. For instance, if the climate of an area is warm then people of that area prefer to wear light clothes like lawn or cotton. But if the climate of some country is cold then very warm clothes are being worn by people of that place.
Why is dress important to culture?
Dress is an important compenent of our daily lives. Through clothing, individuals establish their sense of self as well as their place in society. The connections between dress and both individual and collective identities continue to be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the world of fashion and dress.
Why is it important to wear traditional clothes?
Folk dress has played and still plays an important symbolic role in the preservation of national values and cultural heritage and in the creation of a feeling of unity of the people. National costumes are not worn in daily life but at folk festivals, weddings, harvest festivals, and other special occasions.
Which type of clothes is not allowed in India?
Sleeveless dresses, mini-skirts and shorts have already been banned. Sleeveless churidar kurtas are also a no-no. Why: Sleeveless tops and high heels were banned for teachers, after they banned jeans for women in the colleges.
What clothes are not allowed in India?
Both men and women travelers should have pants and avoid tank tops as clothes to wear in India. In India, attire for women (if you really want to look like a local) includes long skirts that go down to the ankle instead of pants. While T-shirts are acceptable, always err on the side of modesty.
Can you wear sleeveless tops in India?
Sleeveless shirts are fine.
While T-shirts or long sleeve shirts are an easy way to go.
How does fashion affect your identity?
Fashion shapes identity in a multitude of different ways; from the colors we pick, to the stores we frequent, who we are is ingrained in our style. Anything we wear, from hair dye to tattoos, is apart of our style. Our individual personalities influence whether we want to dye our hair or get a new piercing.
Why is religious clothing important?
Religious clothing is also used as a means of communication, conveying information about the person who wears it. That is why Christian monastic orders each have used fashion (in its primary sense), to specify their status.
Do you think people’s clothing tells about their personality?
Your dressing sense reflects your personality, character, mood, style and what actually you are as an individual. People wearing gaudy clothes with loud make up are generally extroverts and love partying. You really can make out what sort of person an individual is by his/her dressing.