What teenagers wear

School uniform, school colors or no rules at all?

Pupils at the Semmering tourism schools in school uniform

(Bild: Tourismusschulen Semmering)

A question that has come up again since the recent introduction of a dress code at a secondary school in Weiz: What should and may pupils wear? Are rules sensible or do they restrict personality? Three different approaches to a sensitive topic.

Appropriate clothing in schools is always a hotly debated topic. Calls for a "uniform school dress code" have already been heard in politics, with jogging bottoms, belly-baring T-shirts and hot pants in particular regularly causing tempers to flare and raising the question of whether there should be more regulations regarding clothing in everyday school life.