From hair length to skirt length, school uniform policies, or dress codes, dictate many aspects of a student's appearance.

When a Salford high school insisted that girls wear tights with their skirts instead of socks, it went down like a lead balloon. It's become a familiar tale across the Greater Manchester, with parents ...

SAITAMA--High schools run by the prefecture here that still have dress codes requiring female students to wear skirts ... go to school every day because it is painful to dress in a uniform unfit ...

The school says it "simplifies the uniform" and will prevent pupils from wearing "inappropriate length" skirts. It said most parents and pupils had responded positively but a petition had begun to ...