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[[High School|High Schools]]s have [[Dress Code|Dress Codes]]s - no short skirts, no cleavage, no profane slogans - that their students must follow. Even the most liberal public schools have some kind of limits on student attire (even if it is simply "no shoes, no shirt, no service"). Not so in fiction. If a fictional school doesn't wear uniforms, there are no rules guiding clothing at all. Female characters are the most likely to break with reality, sporting cleavage heavy tops, short skirts and even [[Bare Your Midriff|bared midriffs]]. In reality, these students wouldn't make it to their first class without being sent home to change their clothes after being given detention.
 
Subtrope of [[Dress Code]]. Can be a result of [[Hollywood Dress Code]], which dictates certain female types ''must'' dress in a manner inappropriate to a school setting because of her character type (such as the slutty cheerleader must be dressed skanky or we won't know who she is). Akin to [[Dawson Casting]], as both tropes give the impression that teenagers are much more adult than in reality. Schools like this are likely to have a [[Sudden School Uniform]] episode that snaps back to no rules afterward.
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