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{{Short description|Limit on how much clothing should be worn}}

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An '''undress code''' is a [[dress code]] or [[social norm]] which sets an upper limit on the amount of [[clothing]] that can or should be worn. {{cn|date=September 2018}}

Promoters of the entertainment industry, including sport, attempt to "sex-up" the entertainment by under-dressing the entertainers or sportspeople. For example, in 1999, the [[beach volleyball]] regulatory body, the [[International Volleyball Federation]], set a limit on the amount of clothing allowed for the athletes to wear during competition. TheseThe requirewomen's swimsuitsuniform ascomprises uniformsa forbikini womenwith a width limit on the bottoms of {{convert|2.5|inch|cm}} on the sides,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/STYLE/9901/13/vollyball.bikini/ |title=Bikini blues – Beach volleyball makes the swimsuit standard |website=CNN.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813055124/http://www.cnn.com/STYLE/9901/13/vollyball.bikini/ |archive-date=August 13, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Thiswhich has led to [[Beach volleyball#Uniform controversy|some controversy]],<ref>{{cite web |url =http://www.toxicclub.com/2015/controversy-over-women-athletes-shedding-their-clothes-in-field/ |title =Beach Volleyball dress shed controversy |year =1999 |access-date =2021-02-09 |archive-date =2015-07-12 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150712224812/http://www.toxicclub.com/2015/controversy-over-women-athletes-shedding-their-clothes-in-field/ |url-status =live }}</ref> and in 2012, morethese concealinglimits clothingwere was permittedrelaxed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/volleyball/9169429/London-2012-Olympics-female-beach-volleyball-players-permitted-to-wear-less-revealing-uniforms.html |title=London 2012 Olympics: female beach volleyball players permitted to wear less revealing uniforms |date=27 March 2012 |publisher=Telegraph |access-date=2019-02-13 |archive-date=2021-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209152258/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/volleyball/9169429/London-2012-Olympics-female-beach-volleyball-players-permitted-to-wear-less-revealing-uniforms.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2021, a beach handball team was fined because its women members wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms in a match, which requires no more than 10cm of their buttsbehind to be covered.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/norway-womens-beach-handball-bikini-shorts-b1887065.html |title= Norwegian women’s beach handball team fined for not wearing bikini bottoms |last= Rathborn |first= Jack |date= 22 July 2021 |website= www.independent.co.uk |publisher= The Independent |access-date= 12 March 2024 |quote= The governing body’s rules state: “Women should wear a bikini where the top should be a tight-fitting sports bra with deep openings at the arms. The bottom must not be more than ten centimeters on the sides.”‪}}</ref><ref> [https://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/other-sports/2021/07/21/norway-handball-bikini-fine/ Handball team fined for bikini bottom refusal]</ref> Similarly, organisers of some [[swimsuit competition]]s set a low maximum threshold for swimwear for contestants.

Some restaurants, sometimes called [[breastaurant]]s, require female [[waiting staff]] to be skimpily-dressed.

The social norm in some countries is to wear considerably less or briefer clothing than in others.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article619936.ece The undress code that’s the height of teen fashion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523220414/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article619936.ece |date=2011-05-23 }} From The Times August 26, 2006.</ref> Fashions since the mid-20th century has been towards briefer, more [[form-fitting]] styles, as well as thinner and [[See-through clothing|sheer]] materials. In some cultures, including some in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia/Oceania, traditional dress consists of less clothing than those of the West. Some religious traditions or rituals require the members to be nude, as was the case with the ancient Indian [[gymnosophists]] or the Christian sect of the [[Adamites]] (the custom is still practised by [[ascetic]]s of certain [[Indian religions]], as in [[Jainism]]). (seeSee also [[Christian naturism]]).)

Laws in many countries require a person to undress in some circumstances when requested by a customs or police officer in a [[strip search]].