| выходить за рамки приличия | push the limits of decency (Many high-school students already push the limits of decency, as is indicated in the picture of a female student wearing an exposed bra. As a teacher, I have to avert my gaze when so many female students are wearing skimpy, revealing clothes to class. This term one student of mine wore a loose fitting top sharply cut away at the sides that revealed most of the side of her bare breasts. Another wore small lacy short pants that provided no coverage of the lower part of her buttocks. Her shorts looked more like lingerie than outerwear. The students in many so-called Third World nations are proud to wear their school uniforms; in Canada, however, students seem to want to "celebrate" trashiness and mediocrity. [Online comments to a newspaper story] ART Vancouver) |
