Male Students to wear Skirts at Oxford University

World's renowned educational institution Oxford University has introduced a new academic dress code for its students. As per the new regulations, male students will wear skirts and women will be in suits or white bow ties during formal occasions and examinations. 

The new dress code will certainly please the transgender student community at the University. Under the revised guidelines, female students will wear a dark skirt or trousers, a white blouse, a black ribbon tied in a bow at the neck, black stockings and shoes, while male students will have to wear skirts or stockings for formal occasion and exams. 

The students will be punished by the University authorities for breaching the rules. The disobedient students might be rusticated or suspended for a period of time if found violating the strict laws of the varsity.

The authorities made it clear that students are required to dress appropriately under the revised dress code. The new rule will be applicable from next month. 

Earlier, under the old regulations, the male students were wearing a dark suit with dark socks, black shoes, a white bow tie, and a plain white shirt and collar beneath their black gowns when attending formal occasions such as examinations. 

However, with the new and distinct dress code, there will be no more confusion to know boys and girls. The reforms were made following a campaign by the student union, which demanded appropriate dress code for men and women at the premises as the old regulations did not serve the interests of transgender students. 

According to a report by the 'Daily Mail', Jess Pumphrey, the union's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer executive officer, said "there was 'an active transgender community' in Oxford, and every member she had spoken to "had found sub-fusc, under the old regulations, to be stressful".