mgdz - I'm with you. I don't remember anyone dressing up for class, I almost always wore my little bro's frat hat in the morning. We dressed "up" to go out - jeans and a cute shirt.
What's all this about purses, anyways? No one EVER carried a purse on my campus; we had those little leather key/id thingies and backpacks.... I guess we were just minimalist out there in the cornfields!!