The Technical University of Mombasa has embarked on enforcing dressing guidelines outlined in the students' handbook.
In a notice reminding students of how not to dress, TUM said learners should appear decent in a manner that reflects the professional training each one of them seeks to obtain.
"Students are required to dress decently at all times. The dress code may reflect the professional training that each student hopes to obtain," TUM said.
Among what is considered indecent dressing in the handbook is unkempt hair.
TUM students have also been reminded not to put on saggy trousers.
Students are also banned from reporting to classes with bathroom shoes or slippers.
The university also reminded students that wearing short miniskirts or micro miniskirts remains illegal.
The ban also touched on wearing of caps or hats, unless for religious or medical purposes.
Hot pants have also been banned as well as cut-off tops or crop tops.
Anything that can be defined as scanty dressing has also been banned.
TUM students have also been banned from showing up to the institution with clothes or items that have political symbols or images that could provoke other students.
The institution now joins other higher institutions of learning that are regulating the dress code of its students.
In early January this year, the Kenya Methodist University dean of students Esther Mbaabu gave a list of what would be considered inappropriate dressing at the varsity.
In the memo dated January 5, 2023, Mbaabu said all students are required to comply with the University code of dressing.
"All students are required to wear appropriate attire during study, at meal times in the dining hall, and in all university functions," she said.
Female students are expected to leave their tumbo cuts (tops that expose their belly and naval) at home.
Other prohibited dressing codes are bare backs (exposing their backs), miniskirts (any skirt above the knee line) and a skirt whose slit is above the knee line.
Dresses and blouses with necklines running down more than 4 inches, body-tight trousers, and see-through clothes are also prohibited.
The male students who will also show up at the university with plaited hair and earrings will not be spared.
Mbaabu says male students with dreadlocks, untucked shirts, vests that show bare chests and hats/caps will be considered as having dressed inappropriately.
