Short History of Regis Jesuit Dress Code

Mr. Saulino’s breakdown of the history of Regis Jesuit dress code and how things came to be.

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Regis Jesuit’s dress code has not always been the same. For the past 40 years Regis Jesuit has evolved with the styles of our time.

Who better to give a first hand account of these changes then one of the most active men at Regis Jesuit High School, Mr. Charles Saulino, who has been teaching here for the past 34 years.

Mr. Saulino smiled as he reminisced about one of his favorite times here at Regis Jesuit as principle.

“It was fantastic some of my best years here at school… I can’t tell you how many rewards there were, it was tremendous…. I just remember hours and hours of meetings and talking, and I liked being involved in that.” Mr. Saulino said.

Many of these meetings and talks involved the dress code and the new rules regarding it.

“You could look at the dress code and you would shake your head, but that is because styles changed…For some time there was a banded collar. It was a band that was almost a turtle neck, and it was legal, because it was the style.” Mr. Saulino said.

Another article of clothing that has remained illegal in todays dress code, but was introduced in Mr. Saulino’s time as principle was the removal of cargo pants, or as he called them “Parachute pants”.

“Suddenly one day a guy appeared with, well we called them “Parachute Pants” (Cargo Pants) and they are the pants with the pockets on the outside and we looked at him and said ‘
Oh my God, we cant have our guys wearing those pants to school.” Mr. Saulino said.

When the school was moved to the current Girls Division, shorts became a necessity.

“Shorts when we moved into that building in 1990, we could not wear them initially, but we had to change that, there was no air conditioning. It was so hot in that building in the fall and spring and there was a date when and when you couldn’t wear shorts.” Mr. Saulino said.

Soon after the pants were made illegal and shorts introduced, Regis Jesuit students continued to find new ways to keep the faculty on their toes. Students showed up with piercings, low cut socks, and different colored jeans.

One of Mr. Saulino’s goals during his time as principle was…

“If we could get everyone to look presentable and look in the mirror and they could say ‘I look like I am going to a Private Catholic Jesuit School this morning’ we wouldn’t have to worry about dress code, they would look nice and have their shirt tale tucked in.” Mr. Saulino said.