Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher
Education, grade: 3.5, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University
(DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS), course: GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELLING, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the issue
of indecent dressing among undergraduate students in Nigerian tertiary
institutions. Indecent dressing is one of the major problems that is
eating up our youths, especially female students. The paper looks at
meaning and types of indecent dressing, reasons why some student dress
indecently and its effects on undergraduates in Nigerian tertiary
institutions. Dressing originated from the time Adam and Eve sewed fig
leaves and made themselves aprons to cover their nakedness after eating
the forbidden fruit. This shows that human beings are social animals
blessed with degree of intelligence. Our mental ability enables us to
cover nakedness. Therefore, dressing is an act of putting on clothes.
Importance of wearing clothe on the body is in order to protect,
beautify or adorn it. Clothes are one of the basic necessities of man.
In its widest sense, it includes a great range of material that man
wears or applies to the body. Clothing includes dresses, shoes,
jewellery, hairdo and make- up. Clothing is also used to show people's
status and the roles they play in society. The clothes someone decides
to wear influences the impression people have about such an individual.
It also tells about the family such a person comes from. It can also
affect the person's comfort and self-confidence. The dressing pattern of
an individual is a kind of "sign language" that communicates a complete
set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate
impressions are formed. A dress is therefore said to be indecent when it
has provocative or stimulating influence on almost all those that happen
to view it on the user. Although, there are no universally acceptable
ways of dressing, dresses are meant to serve some definable pu
