The Freshmen
She’ll be seen walking around campus in her brand new school shoes her mom bought her, maybe a cute pair of converse low tops or some red salt water sandals if it’s a warm day. Basic shoes that were probably super on trend at her high school she just graduated from last May. Her doe-eyed look of confusion and awe will be a nice accessory to the University of Utah sweatshirt that she either got from the collegiate section at Victoria’s Secret or the campus bookstore. She will also undoubtedly have a lanyard toting her student ID around her neck. She hasn’t quite figured out that you should go with the comfiest shoe choice not the cutest and that wearing your student ID as a necklace is not very chic. But all together she’s adorable and when we see her we all remember a day when we too wore “The Freshman”
The Senior
This is on the opposite end of the campus fashion show. This look has a darker, more mature and more sleepless allure to it. This is the outfit we will end our days here in college in. It will be those LuLu leggings that totally have a run in them but they were 120 dollars so as God is your witness you will wear to the grave. “The Senior” will be paired with an oversized hoodie that either belonged to an ex boyfriend two relationships ago or that you received when you were 3rd chair clarinet at band camp. Either way, the essence this ensemble gives off is that the wearer simply just doesn’t care. We’re all lucky she’s even wearing clothes really.
The Hangover
Many of us will have the unfortunate experience of sporting this look around campus if we’re unlucky enough to have early Friday morning classes. This look can be achieved through a process of drinking just a little too much the night before and then the next morning having to be somewhere resulting in the wearer’s dehydrated outfit choice of whatever is closest to the bed or wherever they choice to sleep the night before. Generally this outfit is a mix of whatever pajamas they managed to slip into when they hit the blissful drunken hay or whatever they are still wearing from the night before and maybe a splash of actual thought about the days activities or the weather that might require an extra touch like a jacket or socks. This haute mess couture is not something seen on the everyday colliegiette but it is an outfit that many of us have worn once or twice.
The “I have a cute boy in my class today”
Yes one should never dress for others, one should dress for oneself but almost all of us are guilty of spending an extra 5-30 minutes getting ready because you are planning to sit just two chair away from Josh in Bio 1210 today and you can’t let him see you in your Yoplait stained running shorts. This look includes your “hot jeans” that you save specifically for family pictures and dates because you know your butt looks fantastic in them, a cute top that hugs all the right curves and glides over all the bumps, a choice of necklace, bracelet or a couple cute rings (because you can’t look like you’re trying too hard by accessorizing too much) and a confident stride across campus because you know you look hot and by the time Bio 1210 rolls around Josh will know too.
The Surviving Inclement Weather
This look has a certain practicality that makes it unique so let me set the scene: As you’re getting ready for school and about to slip on some jeans and a comfy cotton tee from American Apparel you happen to look out the window and see a thunderstorm, a blizzard, and hurricane Sandy all in one and realize that you have to take emergency measures because today is going to test and try your very soul. You start with fishing galoshes that are about thigh high just in case there are puddles and then you realize that you will also need to provide warmth for yourself so you reach for a snowsuit that would rival anything Randy from “A Christmas Story” would ever have to wear. But you realize that’s not enough. You grab your space heater and just decide that you will plug it in at any point you see an outlet because, of course, you will be hypothermically cold. This look will be completed with a stripping of all of these layers down to your coziest pair of pajamas for the moment when you realize that you don’t want to risk your life in the rainstorm outside and that this might be a day to play a little hooky.