As spring approaches, students in schools across America will begin to “strip down” into cooler clothing. However, many schools will place a specific limit on the number of layers students can shed this year with strict dress codes that promote modesty. Although following dress requirements is mandatory for both male and female students, the main focus of the dress code seems to be more on covering the female body. Although most schools use the enforcement of "dress codes" to discourage gang behavior and promote uniformity in the student body, they ultimately reinforce the outdated idea that women's bodies are sexual objects that distract and they must be hidden. What do dress codes say about the female body? Most restrictions regarding school dress requirements apply only to females. Schools across the country have banned items that reveal the female figure, from leggings to strapless dresses (Brown, 2005). One of the main ideas behind these restrictions is to avoid “distracting” other students (i.e. males). While male behavior is excused, these dress codes place all the blame on women for ensuring their bodies are not seen as an inherent sexual threat by their classmates.“ When you tell a girl what to wear (or force her to do so) cover yourself with an oversized t-shirt), you control his body. When you control a girl's body, even if it's ostensibly for her "good," you take away her agency. You tell her that her body is not hers (Valenti, 2013). “Forcing women to cover their bodies not only takes away their ownership, it forces them to see themselves as hypersexualized individuals who need to be tamed. This view can result in women being… the center of the card… and a hint of cleavage. This is not the case. Suggesting that male students' intellectual abilities are too limited to concentrate in the presence of cleavage is also offensive to males. It's dangerous to think that a kid who would never have made this excuse for his lack of concentration before can hear his teachers prepare it for him and then start using it himself. While men are much less distracted by women's exposed bodies than many schools give them credit for. , the idea that women are responsible for the behavior of both sexes is dangerous. Asking women to hide is a superficial solution to much more socially rooted problems such as misogyny and rape culture (Valenti, 2013). As long as a woman is always sexualized, it won't matter how much of herself she hides: she will still be accused of her inappropriate behavior..