Crackdown On Flashy, Skin-tight Uni Uniforms

[george]

Skin-tight & sexy

BANGKOK: -- Every year they're warned and every year they disregard the warning. Students just want their uniforms . . .

Flashy, skin-tight uniforms are the latest rage for female university students while their male counterparts are slipping into loose-fitting jeans with waists cut low enough to reveal their boxers.

But as both sexes prepare for the beginning of the new semester next month, university administrators are updating their dress codes and reminding students they will also be graded on their attire.

Kasetsart University has banned skirts with low-cut waists as well as jeans that reveal boxer shorts, said Surachai Charudej, director of its Student Affairs Department.

Offenders will be banned from lecture halls and will lose marks, Surachai said. "We will warn the freshmen about the issue at orientation day," he said.

So far students are ignoring the warnings. As they pore over clothing racks, they are grabbing sexier, attention-grabbing attire, vendors say.

Skirts are even more daring this year than last year, noted a vendor at Bang Kapi's Tawanna market. "Some are as tiny as 30cm from waistline to hem, and there are short skirts with front, rear or side slits, depending on your preference," he said.

"The SSS size was the smallest shirt size last year, but this year our smallest is the SSSSS," he said.

"Noi", a 21-year-old student at Prince of Songkla University, said she had been wearing close-fitting long shirts and skirts with low-cut waists since she was a freshman. "Wearing a close-fitting shirt makes me look better," she said, adding that she dieted to fit into her uniform.

"It's difficult to find simple uniforms with long skirts and big shirts at shops now," she said.

Usa Malison, from Mahidol University, said trendy students were picking up their uniforms at MBK and Chatuchak market.

Supaporn Suvarnarpa, the owner of MBK's Moomtong at Bonanza, said female students seemed more determined than ever to squeeze into tight-fitting uniforms.

"It's so disturbing," said Dr Chanvipa Diloksamphan, the director of the Student Affairs Department at Rajabat Institute's Bansomdej campus. "While we are trying to campaign for proper dress, many shops near the university offer improper uniforms."

She said the university had always had a strict dress code.

Students who violated it by wearing see-through shirts or short skirts would lose marks and be reported to their parents, she said.

Still, the university's efforts seem to be falling on deaf ears.

"Each year, we warn freshmen about how they dress, but when they become seniors they always dress more improperly," Chanvipa said.

"Some students say if they don't dress according to trends, their friends will tease them," she said.

It is difficult to control students, she said.

--The Nation 2006-05-12

[sriracha john]

We need

P H O T O S

please...

Edited May 12, 2006 by sriracha john

[naka]

Leave the girls alone you bunch of rotters

Bangkok would not be the same without the Uni and office girls.

[Ijustwannateach]

Skin-tight & sexy

It is difficult to control students, she said.

--The Nation 2006-05-12

At last, the truth comes out!

[markuk]

Skin-tight & sexy

they cant stop this, what would i look at during my lunch break.... life could get so boring..

[ovenman]

We need

P H O T O S

please...

Sounds like a job for the Bangkok Herald-Examiner staff photographer.

[george]

Related news:

Poll says Thai student morality in decline

BANGKOK: -- Thailand's education minister said Thursday a recent poll suggested that the level of morality and sense of responsibility among students has declined despite their good education.

The Office of the Education Council recently conducted a three-week-survey to measure public opinion on Thai education. The office received responses from 14,230 of the 20,000 members of the public to whom it sent the survey questionnaires.

Respondents included civil servants, businessmen, parents, teachers and students themselves, according to caretaker Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang.

On the positive side, the survey found that nearly 85 per cent of the respondents are relatively happy with the country's current education system.

At least 70 per cent said teachers are generally of higher quality now, while only half of the respondents gave the same evaluation regarding students--while expressing disappointment over students' low morality, lack of responsibility and poor grades.

Some 68 per cent of the respondents attributed the country's improved education to development, better teaching methods and new technology such as the computer.

The minister said 72 per cent of the respondents expressed desire to participate in the country's education reform. They said students should be encouraged to develop the discipline of self-learning methods and to participate in social activities in their own communities.

''We will analyze the results of this survey and improve our work to meet the public's demand on education, ''said the education minister.

--TNA 2006-05-11

[skippybangkok]

OK, let me understand this right...... a policeman has skin tight uniform, but students are forbidden ?

Wierd.....

[BKKDUDE]

Skin-tight & sexy

It is difficult to control students, she said.

--The Nation 2006-05-12

At last, the truth comes out!

They really want it stopped, tell every farang attack each and every girl with short skirt.

Bangkok post:

Cave men are attacking girls having short skirts

Edited May 12, 2006 by BKKDUDE

[Sandstone Art]

The students are just trying to make a fashion statement

Life will be so boring of they wear those goody 2 shoes uniform. Come-on, they are old enough.

Show-off what you've got! They give an interesting mixed fashion parade when I shop in MBK or Center Point.

ps

But for those who has nothing to show, pls conform to the university dress code . Either few sizes bigger for those 'bigger girls' & 'boys'

[Phil Conners]

It's getting more and more absurd, almost like Iran with their blocks on what people can view on the internet and how people can dress.

Time for a new goverment, but I guess it's on it's way...

[opothai]

love it

i expect claire short and the frumpy brigade from the uk have been advising the said universities.

and lets face it if the frumpy brigade can not pull the men then they have to bring the sexy looking girls down to thier own level to make an even playing field.

and call it exploitatation of young women.

spoil sports

[Joey Boy]

The crackdown last year lasted a total of 3 days, then they were all wearing the same short tight skirts again... One advantage of the baggy skirts tho, there easier to

[Scott]

I guess this is what happens when you live in the tropics. In the northern climates, where we have weather to talk about and report on, these things don't happen. Here they don't have weather, so I guess this is what they have to do instead!

[game4shame]

Flashy, skin-tight uniforms are the latest rage for female university students

erm, yeah, ban them, erm, it's disgusting.

[astral]

University should be a place for learning to think and express yourself.

Any uniform is totally out of place.

But then this is Thailand, thinking is not a strong point.

[stumonster]

seeing as the the enormity of this horrendous problem I decided to head to google images knowing that an outrage of this magnitude would be well documented.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&h...rts&btnG=Search

eh?

[romulus]

University should be a place for learning to think and express yourself.

Any uniform is totally out of place.

But then this is Thailand, thinking is not a strong point.

I have a friend who just set up a language school in the NE. She's been here for about 6 months and her registration only JUST got approved. Apparently the education officers were not as interested in her curriculum as they were in her school's "policy concerning dead students". The schools application was NOT approved until she wrote that the school does not accept dead students and that dead students were not required to attend class or examinations and they thus would not be allowed to graduate... something like that.

Someone should write a book. Really.

[Bryan in Isaan]

University should be a place for learning to think and express yourself.

Any uniform is totally out of place.

But then this is Thailand, thinking is not a strong point.

I have a friend who just set up a language school in the NE. She's been here for about 6 months and her registration only JUST got approved. Apparently the education officers were not as interested in her curriculum as they were in her school's "policy concerning dead students". The schools application was NOT approved until she wrote that the school does not accept dead students and that dead students were not required to attend class or examinations and they thus would not be allowed to graduate... something like that.

Someone should write a book. Really.

I think you are getting closer to the real problem. I have nothing against uniforms - tight or loose - whatever, but if superficial "policies" become a substitute for real education, it shows that the school is unable to deliver. There is a teacher at my nieces high school who spends a lot of time checking to make sure the girls don't let their hair grow longer than the regulated length - as if this teacher is doing something important. It reminds me of the slogan from a few years ago - "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"

[sriracha john]

seeing as the the enormity of this horrendous problem I decided to head to google images knowing that an outrage of this magnitude would be well documented.

Thailand University Skirts

eh?

OMG! That's disgusting!

Thaivisa is no place to display such filthy pornography!!

[VanZam]

But at least we now know who the real "brains"(cough) are behind this outrage!

[elkangorito]

seeing as the the enormity of this horrendous problem I decided to head to google images knowing that an outrage of this magnitude would be well documented.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&h...rts&btnG=Search

eh?

Try

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=th...nG=Search&meta=

[elkangorito]

I wonder if anyone else has read that little red book, written & distributed by the Thai Ministry of Culture, titled, "Thai Etiquette?"

It is great for a real laugh.

Edited May 14, 2006 by elkangorito

[Maestro]

I wonder if anyone else has read that little red book, written & distributed by the Thai Ministry of Culture, titled, "Thai Etiquette?"

Do you mean this one?

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Maestro

[Maestro]

I wonder if anyone else has read that little red book, written & distributed by the Thai Ministry of Culture, titled, "Thai Etiquette?"

It is great for a real laugh.

I have read that web site now and, unlike you, saw no reason to laugh. It contains little I did not know already and represents only a fraction of what one gets to know about Thai etiquette if one lives in Thailand for some length of time, interacts socially with Thais, and has occasion to meet members of the Royal family.

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Maestro

[bkkmadness]

Is this too short?

Well, someone had to turn this into a pictorial thread.

Edited May 14, 2006 by bkkmadness

[OlRedEyes]

Thanks bkkmadness. We needed and illustration. I assume thats the long skirt. Now how about one of them tight short skirts?

[joyeves]

We need

P H O T O S

please...

Here we are, o.k ???

[sriracha john]

We need

P H O T O S

please...

Here we are, o.k ???

that's a nice effort....

but I don't think it really qualifies for the thread as she isn't wearing

1) buttons on her uniform to identify herself as a uni student

2) the top is not all that "skin-tight"

I believe the thread is more in reference to a desire to reduce the number of students shamelessly parading about in these type uniforms:

or in regards to skirts, this type of brazen shortness:

I agree with the Culture Ministry they should ban these uniforms and just allow the students to go to class without wearing anything like this:

*photo removed by mod* (what are you, crazy SJ??)

Edited May 14, 2006 by sriracha john

[KhunMarco]

lol SJ got a bit carried away?