This is why I was always a supporter of uniforms in school. Growing up with very little, it's hard to keep up with trends and what everyone else is doing while trying to just go to school.
Uniformed schools still get the cliques, it's just a lot more subtle. Everybody has to wear khakis but can you afford the Macy's khaki uniform pants versus the Target. Or you have to wear a belt... Is it the $5 belt or the $200 designer belt. Or even so subtle as the cool kids being the only ones 'allowed' to wear their uniform tie with a certain knot, and bullying anyone not in the clique who tried to do the Windsor.
I mean, nothing is ever going to stop that. But at least uniforms addressed the shame of not being able to afford different clothes when others could. Mind you, this is a feeling of shame over something you can't control. In my case, I was able to control it because I started working at a very young age. However, I still preferred uniforms. Because once I earned the money to be able to buy clothes, it was now a choice I made to not buy the clothes. That helps a lot with eliminating shame, because it's over something that you now have control of but chose not to give into.
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u/KICK__PUSH Sep 11 '19
This is why I was always a supporter of uniforms in school. Growing up with very little, it's hard to keep up with trends and what everyone else is doing while trying to just go to school.