UNILAG bans tight trouser, skirt on campus

The Management of the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) on Tuesday introduced a dress code for students of the institution.

This move according to the memo made public, is aimed at curbing alleged indecent and seductive dressing among male and female students.

The memo further instructed lecturers to exclude students who fail to adhere to the dress code from lectures and other activities.

Students are not allowed to wear the following:

1) All tight-fitting clothes including skirts, trousers, and blouses.

2) All clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body such as the bust, chest, belly, upper arms, and the buttocks. Examples of such dresses are transparent clothing, “spaghetti tops, “Wicked straps”, “Mono-straps”, “Tubes”, and “Show me your belly”. Skirts and dresses with slits above the knees fall into this category.

3) Outfits such as knickers and mini-skirts and dresses, which are not at least knee-length.

4) Inappropriate outfits, e.g Party-wear, beachwear, and bathroom slippers should not be worn to lectures.

5) Outfits such as T-shirts, shirt, and jeans which carry obscene and subliminal messages.

6) Trousers such hip-rider, and low waist jeans.