A Houston father was upset to learn that his five-year-old daughter was disciplined for wearing her rainbow spaghetti-strap sundress to school, where teachers said that it violated the dress code. Jef Rouner wrote in the Houston Press that his daughter was forced to cover up with jeans and a t-shirt when she was told that the spaghetti straps of her 'full-length' dress were 'against the rules'. 'We still live in a country where someone can decide the shoulders of, and I can't stress this enough, a five-year-old girl are so distracting that they must be sent away and decently hidden,' he said. Kiddie clothes: Jef Rouner said his five-year-old daughter was forced to cover up when she wore this spaghetti-strap sundress to her school in Houston, Texas . 'She'd had her heart set on wearing her rainbow sundress since the weather warmed up,' recalled Mr. Rouner. He didn't hesitate to let her wear the multicolor frock, which he bad bought from a  store in the mall and previously let her wear to church. 'I didn't pick up my daughter's dress at My First Stripperwear,' he insisted. 'It's not repurposed fetish gear from a store for very short people.' But despite the striped dress being what Routner believes is completely age-appropriate, his daughter is now 'wordlessly accepting that a dress with spaghetti straps, something sold in every Walmart in America right now, is somehow bad.' Supportive pop: Jef said he finds it 'weird' that school dress codes tend to offer more restrictions for girls than boys . Favorite frock: As the weather has gotten warmer, Jef said, his daughter grew excited to wear the striped dress, which she had worn to church in the past . Mr. Rouner took particular issue with the fact that school dress codes almost exclusively target girls, banning items of clothing that aren't even sold in the boy's sections of stores. Though rules against exposing the chest and torso could theoretically apply to boys as well, he explained, boy's clothing simply isn't made to show skin in the same places as girls' clothing. 'Essentially, a school dress code exists to prevent girls from displaying too much of their bodies,' he said, adding that most restrictions in his own daughter's school dress code were female-specific. Taking a stand: The vocal father said he won't stop his daughter from wearing the dress again in the future . He went on to note that it is particularly outrageous to discriminate between boys' and girls' clothing at his daughter's age  Cut her hair, he said, and his five-year-old would look no different from a boy. Since he still sees no problem with the sundress, Mr. Rouner said he won't stop his daughter from wearing it in the future - and will tell her that she looks 'cute as a button to boot'. And if anyone tells her to change her clothes? The outspoken father said he will tell his daughter to ask 'why' until she gets an answer she likes.
Jef Rouner from Houston, Texas says his daughter was forced to wear jeans and a t-shirt with her spaghetti-strap sundress .
The father expresses frustration that only girls are targeted by school dress codes - even at such a young age .
He finds it shocking that a dress his daughter wore to church was deemed inappropriate .