Guy Wrote to ST to Complain on Students Wearing Slippers to Campuses. Netizens Triggered AF

Lest you’re unaware, there’s no official dress code in tertiary institutions. As long as you don’t turn up in the lecture hall in your one piece swimsuit or polka dot undies, you’re good to go.

But it seems that there are people out there keen for this customary tradition to discontinue, as can be seen from this Straits Times Forum Letter.

Published just yesterday (28 December), this particular letter has garnered quite a bit of traction.

Negative traction, that is.

Here’s the letter in full (transcript style):

I have noticed tertiary students here – male and female alike – attending lectures and tutorial classes wearing slippers, shorts and T-shirts.

This does not seem like an appropriate way to dress.

Institutes of tertiary education are places to acquire knowledge.

Students should respect the sanctity of these places and not treat them like food courts or hawker centres, where there are no restrictions on how one dresses.

I am sure their lecturers and tutors have to adhere to a dress code and dress appropriately when carrying out their professional duties.

We do not see our MPs and ministers wearing slippers, shorts and T-shirts in Parliament. 

Even some restaurants have a dress code which guests must follow.

It is about time that the authorities, especially in our universities, introduced some form of dress code for all tertiary students to follow.

If there already is a dress code, then stern action should be taken to enforce it, as it is not being adhered to.

I am not suggesting that tertiary students wear a uniform.

Shoes instead of slippers, trousers instead of shorts, and shirts with sleeves would be ideal.

By implementing a dress code, we would be demonstrating to the world that we are a disciplined society.

*End of transcript*

Triggggggggered

Netizens were, without doubt, shook to their very cores.

Some even constructed entire essays in response:

Although to be fair, one actually appraised it.

But I can’t help but detect a slight hint of sarcasm here.

Maybe it’s because he works in the Electrical and Electronics industry. Can’t trust electricians after one guy literally electrified my now ex-girlfriend.

Should there be an official dress code?

If you were to ask me, I would reply straight up, no holds-barred.

I like my attires free and easy when contending with boss battles in the lecture theatre, thanks.

Sure, it could make the whole thing more ‘disciplined’.

But it’s all for show.

Unless you’re admitting that Singapore’s a literal showboat, I don’t see any reasons to extend that display case to the confines of tertiary institutions.

The students are the ones paying and learning.

Let them decide the formal dress code.

That’s my two cents worth anyway. What about you?

Are you on the slippers’ side, or the ‘all-formal, no nonsense’ side?

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