The booting of a Brigham Young University-Idaho student from a university facility for wearing “skinny jeans” is provoking renewed discussion among Mormons about the religion’s increasing emphasis on conservative dress standards.
On Wednesday, the BYU-Idaho student newspaper published an account of a senior psychology major who was not permitted to take a university examination at the school’s “Testing Center” when a Testing Center employee told her that her “pants were too tight.” The student, who holds a position of responsibility in her local LDS congregation, had just come from a meeting with her LDS bishop to discuss congregational business. Apparently, the pants were not too tight to wear to a church meeting, but they still drew the enforcement attention of Testing Center employees.
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