“Oh, how I wish it were so!” Up to now, students in America have embraced almost every aspect of the Harry Potter series of books, except Harry’s clothing. There are scarves and patterns for scarves available online. However, students have declined to dress in the manner required at Hogwarts or most British boarding schools. What a shame!
British boarding school students normally wear uniforms that include a freshly ironed shirt, a tie (for boys and girls), neat slacks or a skirt (depending upon the student’s gender), and a tasteful jacket or sweater, emblazoned with the crest of the school, or the boarding house. How neat and clean! Alas, the Harry Potter books are a series of fantasies, and so is the chance this attire will become popular in the United States.
Although some schools have returned to uniforms, in an effort to curb gang violence, the vast majority of American schools still embrace the idea of “free dress.” Therefore, young men and ladies are given the daily opportunity to exercise as much bad taste as humanly possible, with
T-shirts that expose belly buttons and pants worn low enough to expose us to America’s real “crack problem.”
We expect our sons and daughters to practice abstinence and then dress them as “streetwalkers” and “pimps.” Isn’t there some form of “disconnect” here? There was a time when young women knew the value of mystery, when it was more important to be intriguing than “gynecological.”
Sadly, that time has passed. Yet we can always hope for the influence of “Harry.”
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