28-07-2022, 08:24 AM
Uniforms are a strategy for control. The marketing blurb about creating a sense of identity and togetherness may be based on that very same level of comfort you mention but imposed rules about what can be worn is very different to people choosing to wear something that signals their affiliations. Regulation around dress is not the same as picking up the local team colours in your scarf, or choosing to wear a moko, or a Star of David, or a kilt, or even a different hairstyle.
If it was, then there wouldn't be such a fuss when a rebellious soul tries to do just that while wearing regulation dress. Remember the performance around facial tattoos on Navy officers? And how the upper echelons patted themselves on the back for 'allowing' it? Or the Police for permitting hijab? Certain schools furores over hair length? Concessions disguised as something they really are not...
If it was, then there wouldn't be such a fuss when a rebellious soul tries to do just that while wearing regulation dress. Remember the performance around facial tattoos on Navy officers? And how the upper echelons patted themselves on the back for 'allowing' it? Or the Police for permitting hijab? Certain schools furores over hair length? Concessions disguised as something they really are not...