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Here's a feature I wrote for Al Jazeera America: "Fashion Police are No Joke in Some Cities, Schools."

"What other people wear makes people nervous," said Ruthann Robson, author of the new book Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from Our Hairstyles to Our Shoes. "They try to legislate it or make arrests based on it, and then — BLAM! — lots of work for constitutional lawyers."

Read the whole story here.