Clothing - Was Sadism or not ? McGonagall and her punishments

[wildirishrose01us]

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> Shaun:
> 
> I'm aware of the list. I'm also aware of similar lists that exist for real 
> world schools, and such lists do not normally contain a list of all the 
> schools rules relating to uniform and appearance. I have seen exceptions to 
> that, but in general, I would not expect to find such information contained 
> in a list of what students to buy in regards to uniform, and so the fact 
> that Hogwarts list doesn't do that, doesn't in any way suggest that such 
> rules don't exist.
> 
> The uniform list for my old school can be seen at:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/p4ukj2
> 
> Nowhere in that list is there a list of rules concerning appearance - 
> because that's not something that needs to be sent home with a list of 
> things you need to buy for school, which is what the list Hogwarts sends is.


Marianne:

I just looked at the link. Dear God.  It's not cheap to buy school uniforms.  It is clothes for boarding school, isn't it?  If WW clothing is as expensive as boarding school clothing, no wonder the Weasley children wore second hand robes.

Question I've wanted to ask for a while, and maybe it's been discussed before.  Why is it in the WW it seems the families are small - 1 maybe 2 children.  With the exception of the Weasleys.  With WW families that small no wonder the pureblood status would be hard to carry on.  Ok.  Back to school uniforms.

I've heard good and bad about school uniforms.  Good is that the parents don't have to worry about sending their kid to school in the latest fashions.  Bad in that parents complain that they have to buy two sets of clothes.  One for school and the other for everyday/play wear.  I see the kids that go to private/charter schools come into Wal-Mart nearly every night.  It seems every kid wears light brown pants or skirts and red or blue shirts.  The hair styles are what every other kid would wear.

My son teaches Jr. high, public school.  He says the hairstyles aren't that big of a deal.  They wear their hair "shaggy" as he puts it, but there isn't anyone wearing red, green, orange, purple, blue hair.  That he's seen anyway.  The only violation of dress code is that the weather is getting warmer and the girls are wearing their shorts too short.  The kids are always trying to dress older, but to me the kids are starting to look younger and younger or I must be getting old.  I'm carding men/women for beer that look 16 and in reality they are 23 years or older.

Marianne