Teachers told the 17-year-old senior that she could go home and change attire, but she began yelling and arguing and was escorted from the Marriott hotel Saturday night in handcuffs.

"The young lady came to the prom wearing an inappropriate dress after students were told what the guidelines were," Terry Abbott, a spokesman for the Houston Independent School District, told ABC News Tuesday.

Guidelines permit slits in dresses no more than three inches long above the knee, but allow only one inch of exposed midriff and ban "see-through fabrics … which reveal private body parts."

Students planning to attend the prom had to sign the guidelines statement and hand it in.

The girl was held in a police car outside the prom until she calmed down, and she was not arrested, ABC said.