Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. As students ...

Dress codes, on the other hand, are different from school uniforms. They are not standardized, which usually means that students can wear most varieties of a specific type of clothing.

A change to the Greater Lawrence Technical School student handbook looks to create more uniformity within the school’s walls with how the students dress for classes and shops. The School Committee ...

As students return to school, one patterned textile now synonymous with uniforms will make its seasonal reappearance on pleated skirts, jumpers and ties: plaid. The design has long been a mainstay ...

Abbott Tech students embrace khakis, polo shirts under new dress code ... 16, a junior at Henry Abbott Technical School in Danbury, wears the school uniform, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010.

Plaid has become a catch-all term in the US, but includes patterns with distinct histories, including tartan, from Scotland, which is more associated with Catholic school uniforms, and madras ...

But the textile didn’t become a fixture of school uniforms until the 1960s, according to historian and educator Sally Dwyer-McNulty, who authored “Common Threads: A Cultural History of ...