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Utah Girls Have No Right to Bare Arms
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/29/utah-high-school-photoshopped-clothes-girls-pictures-yearbookThis Utah High School Photoshopped Clothes Onto Girls' Yearbook Pictures
Here’s a heartening message for America’s teen girls: If a high school’s administrators don’t think her bare arms or shirt neckline is modest enough, they might add fabric to her clothing and cover her up with the magic of Photoshop. At least, that is the way officials at Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah, handle outfits they deemed inappropriate. The school, which is about 45 minutes southeast of Salt Lake City, has come under fire for digitally altering the photos of some of its female students so that less of their skin is exposed.
“I just started flipping through and noticed that mine was edited, that my shirt was pulled up farther,” sophomore Shelby Baum told the local Fox affiliate, KSTU. “They didn’t tell you before they edited it. They didn’t give you an option to fix it—so you look funny in your yearbook picture.”
Along with raised necklines, shirts without sleeves and tank tops are off limits: Apparently a girl’s bare shoulder is now immodest. (Ahem, if you’ve purchased a sleeveless, floor-length maxi dress, shame on you—you don’t meet Wasatch’s dress code.) The school claims that the teens knew the dress code and were warned that if they didn’t meet the clothing standard, their pictures would be altered.
What makes the alterations particularly bizarre, and leads students to see the Photoshopping as doubly unfair, is that the school is inconsistent in its changes. In one instance, two girls wear sleeveless tops that pretty much look the same, but only one of them receives Photoshopped sleeves.
Here’s a heartening message for America’s teen girls: If a high school’s administrators don’t think her bare arms or shirt neckline is modest enough, they might add fabric to her clothing and cover her up with the magic of Photoshop. At least, that is the way officials at Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah, handle outfits they deemed inappropriate. The school, which is about 45 minutes southeast of Salt Lake City, has come under fire for digitally altering the photos of some of its female students so that less of their skin is exposed.
“I just started flipping through and noticed that mine was edited, that my shirt was pulled up farther,” sophomore Shelby Baum told the local Fox affiliate, KSTU. “They didn’t tell you before they edited it. They didn’t give you an option to fix it—so you look funny in your yearbook picture.”
Along with raised necklines, shirts without sleeves and tank tops are off limits: Apparently a girl’s bare shoulder is now immodest. (Ahem, if you’ve purchased a sleeveless, floor-length maxi dress, shame on you—you don’t meet Wasatch’s dress code.) The school claims that the teens knew the dress code and were warned that if they didn’t meet the clothing standard, their pictures would be altered.
What makes the alterations particularly bizarre, and leads students to see the Photoshopping as doubly unfair, is that the school is inconsistent in its changes. In one instance, two girls wear sleeveless tops that pretty much look the same, but only one of them receives Photoshopped sleeves.
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