Since its a business school, why don't they produce research that shows one way or the other that how one dresses impacts on the bottom line of a company. Real research, not dustbin research.

For me, I wouldn't care less how you dress as long as you produce.

As for microsoft and others please note that even with encouraging dressing down, they never forget that sometimes to get a contract, you may need to dress up. So dressing down Friday may happen in the office but it doesn't apply to someone going to meet some old conservative geezer who wants to see you in a suit.

As a college policy, I think its pretty archaic and punitive. But its their compound.

Having undertaken my undergraduate in a public uni, l felt like l had been tossed back to high school days when l went to strath for some short term course.

and dont ever imagine they would excuse you because you are going to make an inquiry or collect something!

@Reox,
That's the word.Putting on simple.....or maybe for crying out aloud,they should allow students to attend classes wakiwa ndithi.

We are together in this... i am an alumnae and i dint mind the dress code... i would go through it again. At the time, it was even crazy.... you couldnt even wear a trouser suit as a lady... Infact, at one time, there was a lady who wore a trouser on a saturday ("limited dress down was allowed") and was told the go change her "pyjamas"..... hahahahahaaa... never forgotten that... These days the rules are way too loose i am surprised that people are complaining.

then you couldnt even wear tight skirts. The watchman had the mandate to decide whether what you are wearing as a lady is miniskirt and deny you access or it is tight.... And the open shoes that chicks are wearing in town that look like patapata.... you couldnt wear such - i dont know about now... you wear official stuff.

I'm an alumina as well and i think mostly people who are against it are "outsiders", remember Strathmore was the best ranked university in Kenya last year and is second this year, pretty cool for such a young university.

I heard the Dress Code policy is enforced by a fashion consultant at the gate? Or when she is not in, by the 'Papa Shirandula' guards from Securicor?

A woman in a miniskirt is not a prostitute. A man in a short sleeved shirt is not a thief.

Dressing codes are part of life and in some professions a necessity. eg gloves for a doctor, a helmet for a mine worker etc

however, the idea that a school can impose a certain mode of dressing on its students is plain shaddy. For a mature person going for their masters, it is ok as its their choice.

But what happens to the young guy who's parents will only pay fees at strath? Do you condemn this kid to wear clothes that they have no wish to wear. Or to attend mass even though he's got no interest in church?

It reminds me of my college days where the worst drinkers, partyist, philanderers happened to come from schools and families where "moral" standards were enforced to the core. So now you want to extend that through 4 years of college?

These are religious principals that have no business in a college.

What will happen when I open my muslim college where all students must wear hijabs since it "prepares them for the outside world"? You will all probably scream about sharia law.

The dressing code is not a business principle. It is an Opus Dei principle. It is wrong.

If it had any business ideals to stand by then ALL the BEST business schools would adopt it. Wharton doesn't have it, MIT doesn't have it, Cambridge doesn't have it. My alma mater Boston College definately never had it. So what is this business ideal it is meant to impart on the students.

Having said that. The constitution allows Strath and other such schools to demand of it from their students. They have every right to pursue it. If you don't like it don't go there.

However, if you think that how you dress will make you successful, then you have not gone to Marikiti recently. Or have never talked to a bank clerk.

I recall at a UON campus guys used to peep out of the window from their beds and if you see the lecturer's car being packed, you jump out of the bed onto slippers and run to class in the shorts you were sleeping in.

Some sense of decorum is called for though some might deem it too stringent to uphold.

i work at a rather conservative kenyan bank...i havent worn a tie in a week nor a blazer, im in jeans today as are 3 of my collegues..how u dress adds no value to how u perform, infact a relaxed dress code makes employees more relaxed and productive

Surely!!