Clothing Norms in Tertiary Institutions: Negotiating Fashion Towards Social Hegemony

Public discourse and scholarship espouse the subjective influence of clothing norms over natural body as visual markers social boundaries fashion. As a backlash to student fashion on campus with growing incidences immodest dressing, most tertiary institutions particularly in Nigeria introduced dress standards. Scholars have elaborated how has been used negotiate power, identity, status, gender, etc.They differed approval/acceptability disapproval/unacceptability institutional control behaviour adults. This article underscores role plays an effective driver hegemony. Also, by underpinning sartorial practices conformity established expectations standards appropriate nuances formal dressing higher learning. From ethnographic standpoint, study analysed or codes different posted their websites addition participant method. information is equally published students′ handbooks these institutions. The post-structural Foucaultian approach Discipline Punishment applied analytical framework. explains disciplinary power mechanism contemporary society through approved environment like university. It argued that framework provides understanding significance which may be hampered misconceptions about what other people think norms.