{"id":347791,"date":"2022-09-23T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/?p=347791"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:55:39","slug":"new-dress-code-shocks-student-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/2022\/09\/23\/new-dress-code-shocks-student-body\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dress Code Shocks Student Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Aug. 24, during an assembly not soon to be forgotten, the 2022-2023 school year dress code was revealed. The new Dean of Students Erica Barbakow gave her presentation about the rules for the school, and much of it was the same as years prior. However, the one big change that everyone is talking about is the brand new dress code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Barbakow decided to take a new approach to demonstrate what the student body can and cannot wear to school by using several seniors as models on a catwalk. Ms. Barbakow announced when each of the models walked up whether or not their outfits were within dress code, which became active as of the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though this was presenting bad news to much of the student population, people did find the show entertaining. \u201cI hope that the students enjoyed the fashion show,\u201d said Senior and Catwalk Model Marit Uyham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most students were upset over their loss of midriffs, tennis skirts, sweatpants and ripped jeans. They were also shocked by some of the clothes that were considered \u201cacademic professionalism,\u201d such as leggings and tracksuits. \u201cRIP tennis skirts,\u201d said Senior Ellie Gabriel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Ms. Barbakow believes that the dress code is extremely fair. \u201cIt actually used to be a lot stricter, but what we decided was that we wanted to be inclusive and let students be able to express themselves the way that they see fit but also in an academic professional way,\u201d said Ms. Barbakow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe key takeaway is being covered shoulders to mid-thigh, but the truth is that if you look at the old dress code, even what it was last year and the year before, it\u2019s actually looser now than it was written then. It\u2019s just that it wasn\u2019t really enforced because we were more concerned with making sure you all had masks on your faces, but now that we\u2019re not wearing masks, we can focus our energies back on making sure that we are professionally dressed for school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Barbakow explained that dress code and discipline will hopefully be more easily enforced now due to Veracross, which is how attendance has always been taken and can now be used to submit disciplinary issues more easily for faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the students\u2019 responses to losing midriffs, tennis skirts, sweatpants and ripped jeans, Ms. Barbakow responded, \u201cThose are the four actual main things that the faculty and administration felt really needed to be addressed, so it\u2019s not really all that surprising to me that that\u2019s what the students are upset about. I think that\u2019s up to them as individuals whether or not they choose to hang onto that upset. I hope they don\u2019t – it would be silly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if students really want to discuss something in the dress code, Ms. Barbakow is willing to hear everyone out. \u201cI\u2019m always open to looking at something through a different lens or having students come to talk to me about why they think something should be changed,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m definitely open-minded, but I will say that I think if people actually read and look at the dress code, it\u2019s pretty bendy right now. You can wear basically anything that you want as long as you\u2019re covered from shoulders to mid-thigh.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Barbakow also believes that Pace students will not have many issues with obeying the new code. \u201cPace kids want to follow the rules most of the time,\u201d she said. \u201cI think that they will try to do what they think is the right thing. We were trying to give you all a little bit more freedom, so we didn\u2019t want to completely take away athletic wear, even though it does state in the handbook that athletic wear is not appropriate for the school day,\u201d she explained. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re covered appropriately, it\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Barbakow doesn\u2019t wish to overstress the importance of dress code, however. \u201cDo I think that dress code is the most important thing we do at Pace Academy? Absolutely not. But I do believe that the way we present ourselves says a lot about this community and who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Bianca Vaneri models an example of what is now out of dress code. Photo: Didier Brival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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