Especially during prom, many women have had to change their attire and wear a “shame suit” …show more content…
Many students have even assembled a protest titled “show your shoulders,” similar to the passive rebellion in the 1960’s during the Vietnam War when a group of students from Des Moines wore black arm bands to protest against the war. Because the war cost so much money and too many lives, more and more students agreed that the war was not worth being involved in, and decided to join the movement. School principals soon became afraid that students might disrupt classrooms with their protests and a rule was passed that students could no longer wear black armbands or else they would be sent home and could not come back until they no longer wore them. Ignoring the Principal’s rule, five students continued to wear the armband and were threatened by everyone around them. Soon enough they were expelled but returned after Christmas break without the armbands and instead rebelled by wearing solid black. Since the students would not obey, principals decided to arrange a meeting with the school board and discuss the situation, and the school board immediately agreed that this was an issue and helped the principals enforce their rules but the students decided to take it to court and make it an official case, which they later won because they were protected by the first