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The funny things about the boys rules is that they mostly boil down to "don't let us catch you looking too much like a girl" but also "don't let us catch you looking too much like an adult man, either"
No long hair. But also no facial hair.
No piercings. No visible tattoos. Nothing that might look like a weapon (including combs, heavy shoes, and tshirts with pictures of guns on them).
No eyeliner or hairspray or jewelry. Nothing too punk but also nothing too fruity. Absolutely nothing that might be scary looking. Or drug affiliated. Or queer.
Heaven fucking help you if you look queer. Summer camps hate that.
The only thing worse than looking LGB is looking T+ heaven forbid your gender identity doesn't fit the binary you were assigned at birth
Mens fashion is all about compliance with the uniform
When I was young, the boys' public school dress code did exclude sleeveless shirts, the girls' did not. Boys' dress code excluded skirts, girls' did not. Nobody could have short shorts.
Church camp, well it's Florida, everyone wore swimsuits to swim, there was no mention of modesty about that, because swimwear is appropriate attire for swimming.
Am I too european to understand that?
Also, why would you stop boys from wearing colorful sarongs, surfer mustache and stylish earrings? Isn‘t that what a summer camp should be about?
It's about on par with the UK obsession over Knife Crime.
Summer camp is about putting the kids somewhere cheap so you can keep doing your day job uninterrupted.
it's a conservative christian thing to ban much of that stuff but I imagine the person you are commenting on probably thought it matched the tone of the original post