ABSTRACT
In Australia, school uniforms are prevalent in both government and private schools. Uniforms as measurements of power are hotly contested, and gendered uniforms are of educational interest and concern. School-dress wearing materializes meanings in things, making itself intelligible to other parts of the world. Entanglements, despite appearances, are not sedimentary, and the people are “attentive to and responsive/responsible to, the specificity of material entanglements in their agential becoming”. The school-dress has been popularly viewed and critiqued as a cause of a simple material precariousness that limits the body of the wearer within a physical boundary. The dress is infused with unspoken power relations that evoke shame/interest and in/exclusion—as inequity or bodies that do matter. However, the people think that teachers’ and schools’ orientations to dresses, codes of dress-wearing, and their enforcement of policies related to those codes matter a lot.
