“When I wear a blazer I get more stuff done.” Says senior Sarah Watson. There’s no secret that the clothes you wear can affect how you may act. But does it affect how other people treat you? An anonymous source says, “I think that in our school people base their friendships off of how you dress and how you look, not on how you act or treat people.” This is a sad thing to hear but some people may experience this as the sad truth. These kinds of things run through our minds and manipulate us into thinking things like, ‘they will like me if I have the new Iphone, or the new Nike shoes.’ But we don’t think about our behaviors, we just think about our first impressions on people and how we look, we think it decides everything for us, and in …show more content…
A sophomore says, “I try to dress the same as my social group.” But keeping up with the trends isn 't always the easiest thing for a highschooler. Staying up to date with the trends costs money, and if you don’t have a job then you have to wait for the holidays to roll around to ask for the newest clothes as gifts during the holiday season or during your birthday. The same sophomore says, “It’s hard to keep up with the trends at school because there are so many new trends all of the time and they can get expensive.” But just because you may not be able to buy the latest clothes to keep up with trends doesn 't mean that you can’t create your own. “A trend that I have started is wearing fuzzy socks with leggings in the winter, and I 've seen quite a few people follow it.” Said anonymous. In a small school like Central De Witt, trends tend to catch on pretty …show more content…
“I care about looking like everyone else and fitting in because I don’t want to be an outcast or be talked about, but yet I wanna be my own person.” Said anonymous. Sometimes it is hard for people to find a happy medium when fitting in. Not everyone wants to be the same as everyone else but they also don’t want to dress drastically different. Right now in high school a majority of students care a lot about fitting in, but when you get into the real world will this all change? “In twenty years I don’t think I will care about the popular trends as much because I will have my own life to care about, and I won’t care as much about what people think of me,” says sophomore Beau Manatt. After highschool and college you will start to develop your own life and will stop comparing yourself to your peers. In twenty years you will have a career, and a family to care about, not necessarily your
The search for one’s identity can be a constant process and battle, especially for teenagers and young adults. Many people have a natural tendency to want to fit in and be accepted by others, whether it be with family, friends or even strangers. They may try to change who they are, how they act, or how they dress in order to fit in. As one gets older, society can influence one’s view on what they should look like, how they should act, or how they should think. If society tells us that a certain body type or hair color is beautiful, that is what some people strive for and want to become in order to be more liked. This was especially true with Avery as she longed for the proper clothes to fit into a social group and began to change the way she spoke to match those around her. As a young and impressionable sixth grader, she allowed herself to become somewhat whitewashed in an attempt to fit in with the other girls. However, Avery did not really become friends with any of those girls; her only real friend was
As Sarah enters her high school dance wearing pants rather than a fancy dress, there are many eyes judging her. Sarah doesn’t follow the typical high school girl norm, and although it may not be a big deal to her, she is giving another girl just like her the confidence to rock her own style. In a time like high school, it is easy to want to fit in, but those who stand out make huge impacts on the community around them. While society is always changing, it is evident that peer pressure is always constant. The nonconformists in life are the people that make a change to society’s negative routine.
Clothing and personality are of importance because they go hand in hand by keeping an individual satisfied on an everyday basis. Everyone has their own attitude and sense of style, but regardless of the type of personality and clothing, they can affect the individual and those around them. Due to the denotation that society tends to tag along with divergent styles, affects an individual in the way that it can either construct a day memorable for affirmative or pessimistic reasons. Nicole Cooley emphasizes this idea in her article, “The Language of Clothes”, by relaying the experience of a little girl who found herself to be unattractive; consequently, composing dreadful days. There came a moment, though where this girl decided to wear her grandmother’s aged clothing, and through this she was able to see herself through her grandmother's eyes, now viewing someone beautiful and worthy of living (Cooley). Cooley expresses the fact that the clothing of one can affect their personality, explaining why so many people experience lousy days. A prime example being the little
The clothing of students may seem like a petty point to make concerning the education of the next generation of leaders and the working force. If one has recently driven past a high school one will notice some of the popular trends students are choosing to wear. Many students look like walking advertisements for high end retail brands. Young men wear shirts and pants excessively large which clearly expose their underwear. Some ladies seem to choose the opposite in which less is more. Short shorts or skirts paired with skimpy, tight tops leave a distasteful impression of themselves on others. While not every student may succumb to these styles, the majority of students fall prey to this peer pressure of indecent trends.
In the morning before school, picking out an outfit can be difficult. There are many questions to consider like; “Do I want to be different?”, “What will people think of this outfit?”, “Does this show who I am?” This can be very stressful, and cause complications when it comes to identifying yourself and making difficult decisions. Problems that come with individuality can easily be avoided and refocused with conformity. School uniforms positively impact of the learning environment by ensuring student safety, psychological growth, and academic performance.
Young people need more attention or acceptance from others comparing with people at other stages, as youths are experiencing a process of being adults. The formation of identity can be exemplified through fashion. Young people tend to establish their identities through the way they dress. As Hall,S (1997) stated, visible objects, like clothes may have a simple physical function, that is to cover the body and protect it from weather, however clothes also have a function which can double up as signs, which construct a meaning and carry a message. Fashion can also be a language that makes clothing possible become a self-communicative device at our disposal, plays a...
Brunsma, David L. "The Effects of School Uniforms and Dress Codes on Behavioral and Social
Every weekday morning during the school year, I wake up in order to get ready for school. I eat breakfast, board the bus, and hope my day will be a good one. Once I exit the bus and enter the school, I am unpleasantly greeted by girls hanging out of their shirts along with boys' behinds falling out of their pants. Immediately, my hopefulness evaporates and is replaced with disgust. As I get past those crude sights, I witness a fight due to one student bullying another based on the unfashionable and plain clothes he wears. My day that was supposed to be great has been disturbed again. I know that I am not the only person troubled by these almost daily sights. Therefore, in order to achieve a less distracting workplace and help eliminate violence, Perry Meridian High School (PMHS) needs to implement a stricter dress code.
Adolescents is hard enough the way it is. Trying to be someone you're not makes it even harder. I hereby declare myself independent from “being cool”. There is a certain stigma that the student body has enlisted on it’s peers. I believe there is a certain shame that high school students and students in general have made the “norm”, in which students feel the need to “be cool” and fit in with the crowd. I, therefore, am sending this declaration to all the people who feel the need to be cool. I believe that all students should be able to express themselves the way they feel, whether it be dressing the way the want, wearing the makeup they choose, or the actions they portray. I believe I have the right to change the stigma of “being cool” to
Sparkly tops, cozy pants; we never know where they come from. Maybe a kid made them under horrible conditions, you never know. My mom used to buy a lot of Gap clothes, but during 2005 she stopped. I was little so I didn’t understand, but my oldest sister did. Some rumors were going around that Gap made kids work. They forced them to produce clothing , only gaining one cent per month, they were paid less than adults. Kids were sewing and packaging the clothes. When my sister became an adolescent she started getting picky about clothing. She always wanted to dress like everyone, and the brand trendy new handbag of year was part of it. Living in Paris during a part of her teen years made her very picky and critical over how people were dressed. Paris is known for being a very influential city on fashion. I shop a lot, and Gallerie Lafayette is one of my favorite places. They have some very famous designer brands, and some very expensive prices too. On Christmas, all of Paris’s shop windows were decorated with moving dolls, created by Karl Lagerfeld. When I shop for outfits, I never know where they come from. Despite the fact I can’t know who made it, I can still know the history behind it.With all the things I know, I hope my presentation will turn out great. Learning about this topic more deeply will also help in life. At first, I didn’t what topic to choose, when Fashion popped out of my head I was very ecstatic. Being able to share something I am truly passionate about with the class is exciting.
Some people believe uniforms will not change social status in school because students will just find other ways to determine the status of others. Although some students may use other factors to determine social status, most students will not. The reason that most students will not use other criteria to determine social status is a simple one. People in today’s society tend to cast judgment based on visual factors. There are no other visual factors for students to judge besides clothing. Arguing that uniforms will not change social status becau...
I went to a private school with a very strict dress code and even there you could tell that the new urban fashion was having an effect on the way some students dressed. They would try to get baggier pants and would wear bright colored shirts with logos on the front. At ballgames they would wear baggy blue jeans and sweatshirts with “Polo” or “Nautica” emblems on the front. Whenever we had a casual day all the kids would go to the mall and you would see the baggy jeans and bright shirts on everyone. When the weather got colder kids at school started wearing the bomber ski jackets, so many people at my school had them that the school maid them illegal to wear. Also more and more guys started wearing the large hiking boots that were to bulky for their khaki pants, so they had to cut them at the bottom to fit around the boots.
In high school, there were the preps, the skaters, and the burnouts, just to name a few. These groups were not only distinguished by the way they acted, but they were also differentiated by the way they dressed. By looking at a particular student in high school, one could probably infer the clique he/she belonged to. So if a person had on big, baggy pants with a oversized T-shirt that had a Etnies logo on it, one could conclude that person to be a skater and if a person had on khakis and a gap sweater, one could deduce that person to be a prep. What is a possible reason that high school students dress as they do? They might use clothing style as a sense of identity(clique) or maybe to stand out among others.
In conclusion, fashion will speak out a person’s social signal, people dress on designs that blend with their social class. Just as population, social activities and fashion are changing with time. Fashion has made clothing to be convinient, everything needs to be done with the least effort and spend the least time.
Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be." -- Hussein Nishah Oh look, those are the new jeans everyone is buying, hey do you want to get high, smoke this. Have you ever been in a situation like this, where you just purchased an item or said yes to something that you feel regretful for just fitting in with other people? If you have, then you have gone through the social anxieties of peer pressure. Many times in a teenager's life, there are choices that have to be made.