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-List of items prohibited by new Vice Chancellor
The new Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun has introduced a dress code for those in the university – from students to lecturers and other support staff.
And there are policemen and security guards ensuring that the dress code is obeyed.
Here are items no longer allowed by the 33 year old institution….
The new dress code forbids, among other things:
- Transparent dresses
- Mini and skimpy skirts/dresses
- Body hugs
- Spaghetti wears
- Mono straps
- Wicked straps
- Boob tubes
- Lacy camisoles
- Backless tops
- Cleavage-exposing outfits
- Low neckline shirts and blouses and other wears revealing sensitive parts of the body
- Tattered, dirty jeans with holes and obscene or subliminal messages
- Baggy, saggy, ass level and over length trousers
- Tight fittings, for example, leggings, hipster, Patra and Lacra that reveals body shape and contours of the body.
- T-shirts and tops with obscene obnoxious or seductive inscription
- Chest bust, belly, backside, arm, thigh and leg revealing outfits (male and female)
- Wearing of loose tie, folding, holding and pocketing of tie
- Shirts without buttons, improperly buttoned
- Rolling of sleeves or flying of collar
- Face caps or complete covering of face
- Piercing of body and tattooing
- Wearing of earrings by male students
- Wearing of nose ring
- Very big dropping ear rings and necklaces by female students
- Wearing of bogus distractive knocking shoes like stiletto to lectures and the library
- Plaiting, wearing, bonding of hair by male students
- Bum shorts, knickers, tight shorts and slacks are allowed only for sports
- Slippers,bare foot and bare body, lousy, unnatural/artificial hair attachment beyond shoulder length
- In fact, general unkempt appearance
