Assessing the Impacts of Indecent Dress Codes on Students in Sierra Leone (Case Study: Eastern Polytechnic Kenema Campus)

This paper looked at indecent dressing, a dress pattern that is common among students of higher institutions of learning in Kenema particularly the female ones by examining the various forms that these dresses appear, reasons why these students dress indecently such as poor parenting, peer pressure, wrong use of the internet, fading values as well as demonic influence among others. The negative consequences of dressing indecently were identified to include, rape, prostitution, HIV/AIDS and other venereal disease infection as well as armed robbery, lying and poor school grades. Recommendations put forward included that parents be good moral exemplars to their children, give them attention and regulate the films they watch at homes, the mass media must promote good moral values, religious leaders must preach against indecent dressing, counsel those under demonic influence, government reinforcing dress code as well as the introduction of college or university uniforms for students