15 UNWANTED CLOTHING TRENDS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE LISTED BY LASU.

The administration of Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo has directed all of its professors to make sure that they don’t let any students enter the classrooms dressed inappropriately.

The university’s vice-chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, is no longer at ease with the students’ continued disregard for the university’s existing rules and regulations on students’ modes of dressing on campus, according to a statement by the acting head of the center for information, press, and public relations, Mr. Olaniyi Jeariogbe.

He claimed that the college provost, deans of faculties, heads of departments, and faculty officers at both the main campus and satellite campuses had been informed by the vice chancellor to work with the lecturers to enforce the dress code.

The institution provided a list of 15 dress codes that the administration believed should not be worn by students, especially on campus.

Wearing tight-fitting clothing, shirts and tops with obscene, obnoxious, or seductive writing, wearing shirts without buttons, improperly buttoned, or risquély buttoned; wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy skirts/dresses, and other clothing revealing sensitive parts of the body, especially by women; wearing tattered, dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages; wearing “baggy,” “saggy

Other distracting behaviors include donning slippers, plaiting, weaving, or bonding hair by male students, wearing distracting knocking shoes like stiletto heels to lecture halls and the library, wearing lousy, messy, extremely fake hair or colored artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brown, fixing of long eyelashes, artificial dreadlocks, as well as fixing of long nails.

Insisting that any student who disobeys the regulations would not only be let inside lecture halls, the institution stated that every student is expected to dress simply and in a manner that is generally acceptable by society.