Like previous posts replied, "neat and tidy" is the most important.
For my students, I request that they change their shoes (if they wear runners to school that day). No runners is my policy.
For more senior grade students who are using the pedal, it's very very important to get shoes that are soft soled because students typically practice with no shoes, or their slippers at home, therefore, it's important not to wear a hard soled shoe and go perform on the exam piano. Hard soled shoes do not allow the student to pedal with the most sensitive response.
I once saw a diploma student, in her 20s, she wore a 3 inch high boot to take her exam. I wonder how she can pedal?
So, I advise my students to buy a pair of "piano shoes"..... for competition and exams. Girls typically wear ballet flats shoes, and boys wear dress shoes, but the sole is the softer kind. And a couple of weeks before exam, I remind senior students to wear their shoes to practice.
Diploma candidates are expected to wear "concert or recital" clothes. So my students wear more formal clothes.
Uniforms are seen alot in exams, but that's because of the time convenience, many students go directly to exam from school, and also, many students don't like "dressing" up.
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