Utah teen Gabi Finlayson forced to wear coat to school dance after teachers said dress was indecent

DO you think this dress is indecent?

A Utah high school is under fire after a teacher forced a student to wear a coat over her lace gown at a school dance — because her arms were showing.

The teacher said 15-year-old Gabi Finlayson's sleeveless frock, purchased in Paris and inspired by style icon Audrey Hepbu, violated the school's strict dress code.

Indecent? ... student Gabi Finlayson, 15, was told this dress was too revealing for her school dance. Picture: Facebook/Kristy Maxfield Kimball Source: Supplied

Gabi said she was 'embarrassed” and 'insulted” when a Lone Peak High School official approached her during last week's Preference Dance and asked her to put on a shawl.

'I didn't want to make a big scene so I said, ‘yes'. I had a coat in the car so I had to go back and get it,” Gabi told KUTV in the US.

'Somehow my shoulders are sexualised. Like it's my responsibility to make sure the boys' thoughts are not unclean.”

School principal Rhonda Bromley defended the dress code, saying students were aware of the rules.

'Formals, backless dresses and/or tops may not extend beyond the bottom of the shoulder blades,” the dress code states.

'Girls' dresses and tops must have a 2” minimum strap on each shoulder. Shawls, boleros and other shrugs are acceptable if wo over the dress at all times. Cleavage covered.”

Of the 1200 students who attended the dance, four were made to cover up.

Lone Peak High Sc hool has lost it's mind if they think something is wrong with this dress. She looks beautiful... http://t.co/YetQpHJKP0— Candace E. Salima (@CandaceSalima) January 28, 2015

This young woman is smarter than most adults in this regard. It's attitudes like the adult that make it difficult... http://t.co/apjkOZPR6X— Libertarian Liz (@Libertarian_Liz) January 28, 2015

Because young men can't be trusted to restrain their baser emotions in the presence of a bare feminine shoulder: http://t.co/tMwMTaP6KC— BobKincaid (@BobKincaid) January 28, 2015

However Gabi's mother, Kristy Maxfield Kimball, said the school's policy was backwards.

'I am very disheartened to lea she (Gabi) was shamed at the entrance of the dance and told she couldn't enter without a sweater or coat to cover her shoulders. Seriously?!” she wrote on her Facebook page the day after the dance.

'She is wearing a perfectly appropriate and classic dress we bought in Paris and somehow because her shoulders were not covered she was body shamed and embarrassed? Makes me wonder if this really isn't about wanting girls to dress in LDS garment-worthy clothing. Let's stop this insanity. Girls bodies are not sexual objects and religious perspectives should not be imposed at a public school. Shoulders are not sexual!!!”

Scene ... Lone Peak High School in Highland, Utah, has a strict dress code. Picture: Googlemaps Source: Supplied