'No makeup, tight jeans': Hazara University issues new dress code for students, staff members

Hazara University has issued a detailed dress code for all students which prohibits girls from wearing "heavy makeup and jewelry" and boys from sporting a ponytail, among other restrictions, a notification from the varsity said.

The educational institute gave go-ahead to the new dress code on January 6, after a meeting held on December 29 to discuss the same.

Following the imposition of the new guidelines, female students are strictly not allowed to:

- wear jeans, tights and T-shirts
- wear short shirts with jeans or tights
- wear heavy makeup or jewelry
- carry heavy hand bags

They are however, allowed to wear shalwar kameez, abaya and a headscarf.

For male students, restrictions extend to:

-shorts, cut-off jeans (sic), skin-fitted jeans
- slippers
- earrings, wrist chains
- long hair, pony tails, "unpresentable beard cut"

They are allowed to wear:

- dress pants with dress shirts
- dress shoes and socks
- shalwar kameez

The notification also includes instructions that staff members must abide by.