How Media Influence the Dress Up of College Students

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Lim Yoke Theng
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HOW MEDIA INFLUENCE THE DRESS UP OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

Lim Yoke Theng
Faculty of Liberal Art
INTI University College, Malaysia

ABSTRACT
This article presents a minor research examining the effects of how media influence the dress codes of college students. The results suggest that the students’ dress code are neutral under influential of media, by the way the students admitted there is an influential power comprised in media industry to affect the dress up-style of students. In addition, perception of fashion is diverse in gender.

INTRODUCTION
Students wear uniforms since they started their study life in kindergarden and elementary school, uniforms are compulsory as well in public high school or even in private high school. The students went through the uniform-phase for at most 14 years out of their life irrespective of nation. Carson, a partner writer in online journal, revealed that England was the first country that started the requirement towards the students to wear uniform, as a mean to distinguish the poor students who attended the charity school from other children. 300 years later, wearing uniform in public school only started to become a norm, as well as a way to differentiate the school-boys and school-girls, it is an effective way to control all the students.
Due to variety of culture background, students like their school uniform so much and some of the students choose their high school because of the nice uniform, they

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