Dress-Code Drama

This back-to-school season, teenagers are pining for racy duds. And why not? It's all they see in the media. A JC PENNEY AD, in which a mom helps her daughter yank down her jeans to show more midriff, was itself yanked after parental complaints. Other fronts in the dress-code war:

MINISKIRTS An Old Navy ad says they're back. But at an Indianapolis, Ind., school, skirts have to be as long as fingertips can reach with arms held by the side

D0-RAGS A must for lads with hip-hop on their headphones, but a Dallas high school principal says kids must have...

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