College Fashion: How Does Your School Dress?

I will admit that recently I’ve bought quite a few ridiculous items of clothing. I tried on a new pair of wedges I scored on Gilt for my mother and she said I looked absurdly trendy. As she recoiled from the shoes she managed to ask, “Where will you wear those? How can you wear that to class? Everyone at your college does not care about fashion.”

And perhaps, she did have a point (though to clarify, IÂ’ve never once worn heels of any kind to class and these new crazy wedges were not going to be the first!). People in college dress for their own culture: at no other time will it ever be appropriate to wear pajamas to class. But if any of you readers out there are college students, or are soon to be college students, you know that you can dress up more than pajamas.

In my experience, I found there to be two major categories of clothing needed for college life (and this leaves out business wear as well as many other occasion wear). These two types: day clothing/clothing for class and “going out” clothing.

For typical daytime wear, most people stick to wear jeans. And everyone I know in college owns a lot of jeans! They then pair jeans with a tank top or other decently simple cotton top. And for me personally, I find I always need a sweater. Even if itÂ’s super hot outside, in the classrooms a cardigan is an absolute essential.

But in southern California, where I attend college, sometimes it gets so hot outside that jeans become unthinkable. At my school, I see more girls wear cotton dresses or other basic dresses to combat the heat. As well as a lot of sandals and flip-flops.

At night, however, the “going out” looks emerge and girls often wear nicer tops and sometimes heels, depending on the night. In particular I’ve noticed that the girls at my college tend to prefer flowy, voluminous tops to wear with jeans when going out. Most girls also wear dresses sometimes, but more only for special events.

Though I enjoy the low amount of pressure to dress half-decently during the day, I wish more people would wear things that were a little more fun. I donÂ’t understand why girls make a drastic switch from bad clothing to nice clothing on the weekend when, at my small college, they see the same people all days. I wish people would take more clothing risks, especially because weÂ’re young and now is the time to seize the day in terms of fashion. But in truth I guess, I just want people to wear whatever their hearts desire! DonÂ’t be afraid to take fashion risks just because no one else is taking them!

What do you wear every day?

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