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Some questions:
1: What do you like to wear to school? Has your fashion sense changed over the years?
2: What is (or was) your school dress code like during high school? Did you or have you ever had to wear a uniform? Have you been prohibited from wearing what you wanted?
3: Did you witness any interesting or strange fashion trends while at school? What were they like?

I had different fashion phases during school. During middle school I had my rebellious angsty phase (yes, even me!). That was the time where I would wear dark tops, and ripped jeans a lot. I would also wear smudgy pencil eyeliner before I got better at applying it. To stand out even more I would also wear my hair in ways most people wouldn't. I loved long sleeve sweatshirts and hoodies, but when it was hot I'd wear lighter clothes. I wasn't super picky on brands but I liked a lot of shirts from aeropostale.

During high school I wore more 'normal' clothes like casual tops and didn't stand out as much. I stopped wearing smudgy eyeliner and I kept my hair neat and didn't do much with it, other than curl in every now and then. As for my dress code we weren't allowed to wear hats, sunglasses, revealing clothes and things like that. They would actually make us pay to wear hats in school. -_-
 
1. My fashion sense hasn't changed since elementary and still hasn't to this day. I graduated a long time back, but even back then I loved wearing oversized t-shirts, a pair of jeans, and sneakers. Only time I dressed professionally was when something required it (presentations, orientations). Otherwise, I wore what was comfortable to me.

2. My high school had no uniform dress code when I was in attendance. I lucked out, since they implimented one the year after I graduated. The dress code before didn't allow wearing hats, spaghetti straps, nose rings, shorts that were above the thigh... all that typical school code stuff. None of the clothes I typically wore violated the school code, so I wasn't prevented from wearing what I wanted.

3. I never really paid attention to popular fashion trends. The only people I did notice were the ones who were trying way too hard to be different. Some people felt comfortable being different and didn't give a rat's ass about it so after a while it became part of their personality and everyone just went with it, but it was obvious quite a few other people would try something different yet didn't click with them as they went back to their normal clothes the next day. One chick I remember wore a bandana, a wallet chain, and an edgy 70s band t-shirt for one day and never wore that stuff again. Didn't help she got in trouble for the wallet chain, since that was considered a weapon and they confiscated it from her.
 
Never had to wear a uniform; I never liked and still don't like wearing dress pants and having my shirt tucked in. I used to wear baggy t-shirts, and there's some I wore in middle school that are still too big for me to wear comfortably.

Jeans and a t-shirt were and are always good enough, maybe sweatpants. I hate wearing shorts/sandals though, I just don't like looking at my bare legs and feet
 
I've had to wear a uniform at school my entire life until my last two years of high school. Elementary was super-strict because I was literally a Catholic schoolgirl (feel free to laugh; everybody, including me, rags on me about that). The next school was also super-strict: we had to tuck in our shirts (so a lot of us would just fold the bottom of the shirt under to "appear" like it was tucked in but it really wasn't) and we had to wear specific kind of shoes. Also, the boys could not have hair that reached the uniform shirt collar; one time one guy's hair got too long and like the secretary of the dean or whatever came out and cut his hair with a pair of scissors in the middle of the hallway. ^^;; In both those schools girls wore jumpers that had skirts during elementary and then a blouse with skirt in middle school. Since that time I hate wearing skirts/dresses and generally refuse to wear them unless I've got leggings under them. However, the middle school skirt had these huuuuuge pockets and I think that's where my obsession with cargo pants came from. POCKETS. THEY CARRY THINGS. I LOVE THEM. *ahem*

Anyway, the next school after that had a more lenient uniform policy. Everyone had to wear the same blue shirt with the school logo on it, but you could wear whatever bottoms you wanted as long as they were either white or khaki. So I finally got to start wearing PANTS. YAY. Skirts had to be like two inches above the knee or longer though otherwise you'd get in trouble. Another rule, albeit unrelated to clothing, was that you weren't allowed to chew gum. You could eat lollipops all through class but gum was like a felony, lolcat. I'm serious, they would give you absolute hell at that school if they caught you chewing gum. I don't even... *throws hands up into the air, wanders off*

I got sent off to boarding school for the last two years of boarding school and the dress code was much more lenient. Basically "don't dress like a hooker" and "Monday night dinners are formal attire and you need a damn good excuse to be absent." Other than that they didn't care about piercings or hairstyle or anything like that.

Mum's been pretty controlling about what I was "allowed" to wear even outside of school. Even now that I'm 33 she still tries to give me crap about the things I wear but obviously at my age I just ignore her. ^^;; Nowadays I suppose my style would be labelled "goth" but I don't really call myself that (based on my attitude on life anyway). I mean, I have some accessories and some pieces of clothing that are like that but generally speaking I wear normal T-shirts that just happen to be black because they came that way not because I specifically bought them in black. My makeup though, definitely goth-looking, and my boots too. ^^;; As mentioned previously, I have a love for cargo pants, in any non-loud colour (so yeah I wear pants that aren't black, omg~).

As for trends at school, all the uniforms kinda made that impossible. ^^;; Although at uni I've noticed this weird trend where girls will wear booty shorts, and yet... are also wearing a hoodie. Like, are you hot or are you cold? Do your legs live in a different dimension of temperature? Or your upper body? I don't understand this one. ^^;; I also don't understand this "I live in yoga pants forever" nonsense either. It's too hot for this here~ today it was 94F (34.4C), people~
 
1. Uniforms

2. Uniforms.

3. No.


Literally all uniforms. I mean you had some trends with hair but literally uniforms. I made uniforms look good.
 
1. When I was in school I only ever wore jeans and tshirts. That hasnt changed much at all over the years. Though now I also wear like gym shorts and sweat pants too.

2. No uniforms for my high school but we did have stupidly detailed dress code. No tank tops of any style, no overly large armpit holes, no scary clowns (because of ICP), no bealt buckles, no holey or tattered jeans, no feathers, no scarves, no dog collars, no fishnet tights, shorts and skirts had to reach fingertips, no opentoed shoes, no spiked jewlery, and lots of other weirdly specific things they actually typed out into a pamphlet and gave to us. -_- Apparently the year after I graduated they did away with the dress code entirely and now teenagers can where literally anything they want to my old high school.

3. The trend I remember the most and hated the most was those gaudy bedazzled pants that guys wore for awhile. I hated them so much.
 
1) I wore and still wear t-shirts with jeans/capris/leggings.
2) No uniforms and I never have the need to wear showy clothing or hats, so no. xD
3) Uggs (okay it's not weird, I just don't like them), everyone wearing clothes from places like Aero/American Eagle/etc, and *sigh* sagging. -_-
 
Lyrebird said:
1. Uniforms

2. Uniforms.

3. No.


Literally all uniforms. I mean you had some trends with hair but literally uniforms. I made uniforms look good.
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Pretty much the same here.
 
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