So, What are the Kids Wearing These Days?

[RaggedyAnn]

Originally Posted by CeCe Newbie

I'm a high schooler (as you know), and these are a few samples from my unofficial school uniform:

Girls love their booty shorts...
In an effort to make themselves look as unappealing as possible, they cake on their CoverGirl foundation and line their eyes heavily. As far as hair goes, they love to straighten their hair until it's practically burned off or do the absolutely disgusting and wet-looking "scrunched" hair style.

Those shorts don't even qualify for Daisy Dukes! (though it occurs to me that some on here may not even know what I'm talking about, LOL)

The hair with a wet scrunch look isn't bad though...but I guess I'm old. I have ex-boyfriends that are grandfathers now. (They've got in touch with me through Facebook.)

[AOII Angel]

I had to stops myself from saying I don't get Norts, because we lived in Umbros when I was in college.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I had to stops myself from saying I don't get Norts, because we lived in Umbros when I was in college.

Word.

[AlphaFrog]

My boss just commented yesterday that at the Panthers game last weekend almost every 17-25 girl she saw was tighttight skinny jeans tucked in knee high boots. Neither one of us are a fan of this, but my.daughter sure is. She got a pair of grey kneehigh slouchy type boots and a pair of heeled almost cowboy style fashion boots for her birthday, and they'be already been on over every pair of jeans she has.

[HQWest]

Round here it is the Nike shorts and Chaccos with a party T-shirt and a baseball cap, or now that it is getting cooler - the same outfit with a lettered sweatshirt on top. The guys are in khakis or khaki shorts with docksiders and a Polo long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
The girls here are big into the "pajama" jeans too.

Oddly, the girls from the "top" sorority look like they just got out of bed when they get to class and everyone else has their hair done and make-up?

I agree it is not that much different from the Umbros and leggings in the 90s - but we would have had the pearls on with every outfit.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by HQWest

I agree it is not that much different from the Umbros and leggings in the 90s - but we would have had the pearls on with every outfit.

This!!!

I have a photo somewhere of my and my big with our black leggings, oversized sweatshirts from our winter formal, pearls, and - in a moment of self parody - we popped on huge bows for our hair.

Alas, both being very curly haired, the bows are lost on us.

On this day in 1995, you would have seen me on campus wearing:

Jeans - medium dark wash, probably from the Gap

A long sleeved t-shirt, also from the Gap or maybe Eddie Bauer. Probably hunter green or burgundy if not charcoal gray.

Hiking boots

A barn jacket (or a crew neck sweater, or a sewn letter sweatshirt).

My gold "disc" - engraved with my crest - an initiation gift from my big.

My Eddie Bauer back pack

And I had probably applied a fresh coat of Clinique Black Honey lip gloss just before class.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by CeCe Newbie

...or Victoria's Secret yoga pants (despite the fact that they're clearly not headed to a yoga class) that show of those sexy camel toes and panty lines... .

Those look like gray Victoria's Secret BITCH PANTS!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by agzg

Those look like gray Victoria's Secret BITCH PANTS!

Bitch pants just transitioned from going out pants to yoga pants. Those lululemon pants that cost $98 are basically bitch pants for the 21st century.

[KSUViolet06]

^^^^About the shorts, my brother is a HS junior. I recently went to one of his football games (this is October in Ohio) and I was really surprised by the length of some of the girl's shorts.

This is not me trying to be all "these young kids need to get off my lawn" because I'm not THAT old (just 26) and I have worn short shorts before, but I wore them to the beach, and they still covered the "cheeks."

If I can see the inside of your pocket dangling out of the front of your shorts, they're not shorts, hun. They're undies.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

If I can see the inside of your pocket dangling out of the front of your shorts, they're not shorts, hun. They're undies.

I don't mind short shorts, it's what's in...but OMG the ones with the pockets that you can see from the front...SO DISGUSTING AND TRASHY.

[IrishLake]

I lol-ed!

[victoriana]

Here in the Midwest we do things a little differently than down south. You won't spot Lilly Pulitzer or Vineyard Vines hardly at all. I would bet that only a handful of people know of those brands up here. Very few of the guys dress "fratty" here. You'll see a few in button downs and ties with a nice sweater and khakis over it, but only a few. Typical sorority girl uniform:

Jeans (American Eagle or Levi's, always medium or dark wash)
North Face fleece jacket
Vera Bradley
Letters (most often on American Apparel v-necks and cardigans. If it's not a cardigan, wear a cardigan over it)
Bows
Sperry's
Uggs
Yoga pants
Leggings

Thank god frat tanks and neon haven't caught on here yet. Shh, don't tell them! I'm cool with the graphic tees on American Apparel v-necks.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by AXEling

Another thing I've noticed this year that's popular on my campus are vertical letters (like the white cardigan in the AOII Emporium). I haven't seen any stitched vertical letters here (yet), but my chapter has gotten crafty this year and they used iron-on transfers on brightly colored (possibly v-neck, I don't remember) shirts. I don't have pictures, but I'd really like to get around to making one of my own...

Originally Posted by victoriana

Letters (most often on American Apparel v-necks and cardigans. If it's not a cardigan, wear a cardigan over it)

I saw of two of these vertical letter cardigans during officer interviews at DePaul. That came out of nowhere. I've only been out of college for a year and a half! WTF!

Anyways, I came here because I am curious to know what the dudes are wearing as far as letters. I want to get my brother something with letters for Christmas, but I just don't know what. My fiance is not a good example...the only letters he ever wore were intramural shirts and this one pair of basketball shorts that he had. Of all the ways to wear letters, I usually saw guys wearing them on hoodies or hats. Is that still pretty much what they do?

I suddenly feel so un-hip.

ETA: I'm talking about the midwest, if that helps. I know it's a different story in the south.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

I saw of two of these vertical letter cardigans during officer interviews at DePaul. That came out of nowhere. I've only been out of college for a year and a half! WTF!

Anyways, I came here because I am curious to know what the dudes are wearing as far as letters. I want to get my brother something with letters for Christmas, but I just don't know what. My fiance is not a good example...the only letters he ever wore were intramural shirts and this one pair of basketball shorts that he had. Of all the ways to wear letters, I usually saw guys wearing them on hoodies or hats. Is that still pretty much what they do?

I suddenly feel so un-hip.

ETA: I'm talking about the midwest, if that helps. I know it's a different story in the south.

I've even seen fraternity men with the sewn vertical lettered cardigans. Not something I would do post-grad (personally), but I don't hate it. However I don't imagine your brother's school/chapter would be the vertical cardigan type...

For guys, the lettered apparel I've seen doesn't usually go far beyond hoodies, t-shirts, hats, tack jackets, windbreakers, etc. I have seen a resurgence in crew neck sweatshirts, but that might be because of the area I've relocated to. I never saw crew necks in college (East Coast mid-atlantic/pretending to be southern lol).

ETA: I'd be willing to bet that guys clothes vary a lot more with region/campus culture...

[alexandra92]

Midwest here as well.
Letters on V necks,
Leggings.
Sperry's
Flannel (I love this trend.)
Neon is catching on though.