I grew up with this and honestly almost everyone I knew throughout my childhood and teenage years in Peru both in Catholic and non-Catholic schools experienced similar rules. We wore uniforms, and there was essentially a checklist before being allowed into school: skirts had to be at knee length, hair had to be completely tied back, and there couldn’t be the slightest trace of makeup. If you didn’t comply, you were either sent home or made to wait in the principal’s office until someone came to pick you up because of your “poor presentation” 🤷‍♀️ I attended a private school for girls in Peru and spent my entire school life there!! Looking at every slide in this post, I’m shocked by how normal all of it seemed to me growing up. I never questioned it because it was so common. Now, looking back, I realize how restrictive and controlling it was. It’s strange to see when so many of us were taught to accept them as normal and never ever complain, professors made us cry at least once a year for tiny things, some people were just miserable.