Wearing School Uniforms / Critical Thinking

It takes only about five seconds for person to create evaluations about others but it is nearly impossible to change it. So called first impression is significant for the latter communication with others. First impression is formed mostly on person's appearance such as hairstyle, clean nails and/or appropriate clothing (Mind Tools, 2008).

Clothing is something that everyone chooses differently for different occasions and many people are showing their life opinion by wearing various styles of clothing. However, sometimes it is impossible to wear anything you want because some places have prescribed dress codes. I think that nobody would come to an official occasion in torn jeans with greasy hair. The same goes throughout the whole world for some private high schools. In fact, those private schools have there their strict dress codes and everyone looks just the same as his or her classmates. For instance, private school students in England or India have nothing against wearing school uniforms. On the contrary, they know the long and proud history of their schools and are glad to participate on the maintaining of the message for future.

However, in Slovak high schools it is very unusual to have dress code like that because most of the teenage kids, would not accept it. Teenagers do not understand why to wear them because in Slovakia we do not have traditions like that. Therefore, I know only one school in Bratislava, which requires wearing school uniforms. So it happened that I became student of this school.

Students of Private High School Mercury are literally forced to wear identical white-blue school uniforms every day. Of course, at first I was furious, because I took it as an act reaching into my own space, my own free will to decide. Truth was that at the time I had "cool" style, same like every fifteen year old girl, which was completely different from the boring uniformity and I would do anything just not to merge with the rest. When I went through the streets people just stared at me because

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