Editor’s Note: This article in no way is a serious criticism of Greenwich Academy’s dress code policies. Rather, it’s a playful attempt to represent an honest feeling amongst many students regarding GA’s policy, whether being entirely factual, logical or neither.
Aspects of life at Brunswick School can become confusing and, at times, completely nonsensical. This is no truer when it comes to the apparent ambiguity of the dress code at Greenwich Academy. In these present days, GA spirit week, and at least at some point throughout the year, we’ll all find ourselves asking the same question: “Does GA even have a dress code?”. This article will attempt to delve into this conspiracy and maybe even find out once and for all the answer to this age-old question.
The first step of my journey to find the answer was to visit the GA website to attempt to locate a document stating the uniform requirements. After spending longer than I would have liked looking, and more effort than I thought would have been necessary, I found a document that claimed to be the US GA uniform guidelines. Did GA purposely make this document so hard to find? We may never know. What I did find, however, was a concrete source that described what the GA uniform was supposed to be composed of. Apparently, GA students are permitted to wear polo-collared shirts, the freedom of color increasing as grade increases.
Thus the plot thickened.
After reading this, I knew I had stumbled upon a true conspiracy, for the amount of times I’ve seen a GA girl wearing a collared shirt throughout my high school career is considerably less than the amount of True Lies About Abraham Lincoln. Contrary to my instincts, I kept digging. “Black sweater (v-neck or crew neck) or black fleece over allowable collared shirt” (Direct quote). I appreciate the fact that the importance of wearing an acceptable collared shirt is emphasized with an underline. Have you ever seen a GA girl wearing a “black sweater” or a “black fleece”? This website seemed to be completely overlooked when it came to the choices of clothing made by the GA populace. So naturally, the next question was this; who is this Supreme Being working in the shadows, making these mutinous choices? I set out on a new journey to find the answer to this ever-deepening mystery.
My next strategy was to inquire into the GA student community itself; address the situation at its source and ask the girls themselves what they thought their dress code was. The responses were horrifying. After asking a plethora of GA students what they believed to be the dress code, there seemed to be only one consistency: that there was no consistency. There were incredible differences between each and every response given, making the only thing consistent about them the fact that they were all different. After examining this data, I for the first time realized the true immensity of this uniform quandary. Each and every student was projecting different views of dress code; they were not from just one source.
I was left with even more questions than when I started. Where were these ideas coming from? Has anyone actually checked the website that talks about dress code? Does anyone actually know the dress code? And the big question, the question I started my investigation with and seemed no closer, maybe even further to answering now: does GA even have a dress code? Unfortunately, I, nor you dear reader, nor apparently anyone knows the answer to that ancient question. It seems as though the world of Greenwich Academy dress code is a perplexing, endless place, not meant for the inquiry of mere mortals (or at least Brunswick boys).
So we may never know why I mistook a copious amount of girls for being boys several days ago, and we may never know why or how the sophomore class of GA is wearing an ungodly amount of fanny packs, and we may never know who is coming up with these ideas. What we do know however, and the only thing we can truly ever know, is that the entire GA senior class can dress as construction workers and nobody bats an eye, but if my tie is loose, well, that’s a pink slip for me.
Editor’s Note: This article in no way is a serious criticism of Greenwich Academy’s dress code policies. Rather, it’s a playful attempt to represent an honest feeling amongst many students regarding GA’s policy, whether being entirely factual, logical or neither.
Aspects of life at Brunswick School can become confusing and, at times, completely nonsensical. This is no truer when it comes to the apparent ambiguity of the dress code at Greenwich Academy. In these present days, GA spirit week, and at least at some point throughout the year, we’ll all find ourselves asking the same question: “Does GA even have a dress code?”. This article will attempt to delve into this conspiracy and maybe even find out once and for all the answer to this age-old question.
The first step of my journey to find the answer was to visit the GA website to attempt to locate a document stating the uniform requirements. After spending longer than I would have liked looking, and more effort than I thought would have been necessary, I found a document that claimed to be the US GA uniform guidelines. Did GA purposely make this document so hard to find? We may never know. What I did find, however, was a concrete source that described what the GA uniform was supposed to be composed of. Apparently, GA students are permitted to wear polo-collared shirts, the freedom of color increasing as grade increases.
Thus the plot thickened.
After reading this, I knew I had stumbled upon a true conspiracy, for the amount of times I’ve seen a GA girl wearing a collared shirt throughout my high school career is considerably less than the amount of True Lies About Abraham Lincoln. Contrary to my instincts, I kept digging. “Black sweater (v-neck or crew neck) or black fleece over allowable collared shirt” (Direct quote). I appreciate the fact that the importance of wearing an acceptable collared shirt is emphasized with an underline. Have you ever seen a GA girl wearing a “black sweater” or a “black fleece”? This website seemed to be completely overlooked when it came to the choices of clothing made by the GA populace. So naturally, the next question was this; who is this Supreme Being working in the shadows, making these mutinous choices? I set out on a new journey to find the answer to this ever-deepening mystery.
My next strategy was to inquire into the GA student community itself; address the situation at its source and ask the girls themselves what they thought their dress code was. The responses were horrifying. After asking a plethora of GA students what they believed to be the dress code, there seemed to be only one consistency: that there was no consistency. There were incredible differences between each and every response given, making the only thing consistent about them the fact that they were all different. After examining this data, I for the first time realized the true immensity of this uniform quandary. Each and every student was projecting different views of dress code; they were not from just one source.
I was left with even more questions than when I started. Where were these ideas coming from? Has anyone actually checked the website that talks about dress code? Does anyone actually know the dress code? And the big question, the question I started my investigation with and seemed no closer, maybe even further to answering now: does GA even have a dress code? Unfortunately, I, nor you dear reader, nor apparently anyone knows the answer to that ancient question. It seems as though the world of Greenwich Academy dress code is a perplexing, endless place, not meant for the inquiry of mere mortals (or at least Brunswick boys).
So we may never know why I mistook a copious amount of girls for being boys several days ago, and we may never know why or how the sophomore class of GA is wearing an ungodly amount of fanny packs, and we may never know who is coming up with these ideas. What we do know however, and the only thing we can truly ever know, is that the entire GA senior class can dress as construction workers and nobody bats an eye, but if my tie is loose, well, that’s a pink slip for me.
