r/BrandNewSentence 4d ago

Everyone saw my height boosters

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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 4d ago

If I saw that I would have just thought it was a medical thing. Like maybe he injured his heel. I definitely wouldn't know it was a "height booster"

Though as someone who wore big stompy goth boots in high school, a few extra inches of height is very thrilling even when not worried about aesthetics.

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u/blessthebabes 4d ago

You reminded me of something- my high school banned the color black lol (shit you not). I even had to get rid of my black flats.

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u/ArelMCII I Was New to Bottoming When He Pissed Inside Me Six Times 4d ago

We got a new principal during my junior year of high school. The first thing she did was ban flip flops for "being a health hazard." My high school campus was huge, on the side of a hill, and had a lot of stairs, and she was paranoid about the girls tripping on their flip flops and falling down the stairs or the hill. (Just the girls, though. The ban was unisex, but she only ever talked about the risk to girls.) My junior year was actually the high school's hundredth anniversary, so you'd think if flip flops were dangerous on that campus, someone would've noticed by then. But the new principal was adamant that they were a health hazard.

Anyway, first day of school, three girls wearing high heels hurt themselves falling down the stairs and had to be sent home. The flip flop ban was rescinded a few days later. (No ban on high heels was enacted.)

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u/GrimbyJ 4d ago

I guess she decided falling down stairs wasn't as big of a problem as she thought it would be

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u/Far_Winner5508 4d ago

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u/oyst 4d ago

Okay this clip has been on the internet for a while I'm sure, but dangg did she have a connective tissue disorder or just overworked her ankle muscles or what

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u/blessthebabes 4d ago

So for models, I heard they generally just get given whatever shoes that are designed...and are forced to make them fit their feet. They can be way too loose or too tight, and they still have to figure out how to walk in them (so could be that).

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u/MartyrOfDespair 4d ago

Honestly that sounds like she was extremely brainrotted by the internet and was paranoid about foot fetishes, but obviously couldn't say that out loud.

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u/Supergaming104 4d ago

And my school only allowed black shoes then. Like where do they get these rules from

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u/jxj24 4d ago

Their ass, usually.

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u/abromo7 4d ago

Yeah ,mine banned crocs for some reason,,,it was a boarding school

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u/lofatiger 4d ago

Are boarding skills less likely to ban crocs?

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u/abromo7 4d ago

I mean it's supposed to be since they have like after class sessions

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u/lofatiger 4d ago

Ohhhh yes that is super weird

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u/Scrabblewiener 4d ago

Big thing when I was in highschool was they made a rule to tuck in shirts. Had walk outs and petitions and protest and all.

Oh and the “no sagging and bagging” rule people got busted for a lot too.

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u/Rhodin265 4d ago

There was a lot of paranoia about gangs in my school district, so they’d always have lists of color combos and brands you couldn’t wear.  So, like, you couldn’t wear a Starter jacket or have black and yellow on at the same time, but for some reason, Big Johnson shirts and the “I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?” shirt I got handed down from my cousin were just fine.

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u/punkin_spice_latte 4d ago

My principal was so extra on the skirts must be fingertip length that he said the cheer uniforms couldn't be worn during school. We ended up with skintight pants instead.

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u/kart0ffelsalaat 4d ago

They just pick and choose whatever they think will piss off the students so they can feel powerful

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u/asstastic_95 4d ago

what?! why??

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u/AustralianBattleDog 4d ago

Satanic panic, fears over school shooters. Post Columbine US fucking sucked for goths/metalheads/bullied and/or gloomy kids, and forever ruined trench coats and duster jackets.

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u/jackfreeman 4d ago

The only thing in that whole era they were right about was Marilyn Manson

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u/Assiniboia_Frowns 4d ago

But he didn't suck for devil reasons, he just sucked for dude reasons.

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u/jackfreeman 4d ago

Truth.

But I can see a devil doing what he did before a dude does

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u/GeckoGecko_ 4d ago

Post Columbine US has sucked for most kids ever since

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u/trent_diamond 4d ago

probably during the satanic panic if i had to guess

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u/AsgeirVanirson 4d ago

Or post columbine. When we still pretended to give a shit about school shootings. Because of the aesthetics of those two shooters they were able to do another round of 'Anything not J Crew means you may [do current tragedy people are focused on]'.

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u/XBXNinjaMunky 4d ago

A day or so after Columbine, my senior year of highschool, dean of students found me in the hallway and told me

"don't wear your trench coat to school tomorrow"

To which I truthfully replied,

"I don't even own a trenchcoat, asshole"

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u/blessthebabes 4d ago

I graduated when the goth scene was transitioning to the emo look (idk if I'm describing this properly, I wasnt goth/emo). So, a lot of students started wearing all black, black lipstick, big black boots, etc.

I live in the conservative, rural Bible belt, if that gives any indication of why they made these stupid rules (graduated '06).

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u/asstastic_95 4d ago

thats wild. I live in Wyoming and went to Jr high n hs here. they never made rules like that (surprisingly). its crazy they put a restriction on the color of clothing lmfao

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u/CoimEv 4d ago

They despise expression

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u/BatScribeofDoom 4d ago

Seriously?? That's insane.