The Great Bra Strap Controversy

Weather was warm and sunny the entire weekend in the country. The kids wore street clothes, not their uniforms, to do their marching and cheerleading drills. Tank tops and shorts.

AND...now that all the girls have marched into puberty, all the little bra straps are showing outside the tank tops. Sometimes it's just a little hint of a bra strap sticking out by the shoulder, which is passable in my book, but often the strap is closer to the spine and it's clearly visible in full. A lot of the kids make fashion statements...such as black shorts, black bra, and then white tank over it. Lots of different color brassieres, and patterns like polka dots. If these were bathing suits, they'd be adorable. But we're talking about underwear.

One thing I don't get is the apparent inconsistency with regard to the school administration's enforcement of dress code. We have been told in orientation meetings by the principal (both middle school and high school) that NO underwear is to be seen hanging out of pants, ever. I agree with this wholeheartedly, of course. But why are obvious bra straps OK? Is it because it's only the strap and not the cup? Or maybe because boys don't wear bras, and we don't want to discriminate?

Should I be content that my eyesight is slowly deteriorating and I can tune these things out in the near future? Sigh.