Youth, Teens & HS trends

[StellaMare]

There's no real trend in my high school.. People just wear what they feel like.
Some (not that many though) wear ordinary sweatpants and t-shirts and others go all out bohemian in vintage dresses. It varies a lot. There's quite a few (both girls and boys) that are "into" fashion and really look stylish, but they're not looked upon as special or anything. I guess the common thing for all is that we don't really care about how the others dress, you could come in wearing a pyjamas (one girl did) and people wouldn't even look at you, but same goes if you were to come wearing high heels and a dress (a girl in my class always does)
The attitude is very relaxed generally.

 

[Whitelinen]

I'm all for everyone expressing themselves, but I wish there would be a dress code for school... You'd have to wear appropriate, subtle clothes and look like you are there to study. But I guess that's just my personal preference.

 

[kisa]

^Uhhh same thing at my school. WHY did they have to come to Canada?!?

I'm noticing more girls trying to be really trendy, and it ends up looking nasty. I saw this girl wearing a skull print scarf wrapped around her head, oversized sunglasses, Juicy Couture sweater, TNA fur trimmed jacket, TNA pants, Uggs, and a metallic hobo purse. I wanted to say: "lay off the magazines for a while and try something original!" .... but I held my tongue.

Wow! That is nuts!!! I saw a girl yesterday at work with just the giant bug eye sunglasses (never seen anyone actually wearing them irl before) and I couldn't stop staring, I don't know how you managed to look at anything other than this girl.

 

[the_libertine]

StellaMare, I wish things were more relaxed here. People do care an awful lot about how they/others look, I have to admit I am also a culprit of this too though!

No one is really "stylish" in my school, they are usually chavs or emos or rudboys, and a few "trendies" but nothing any good!

We have uniform (apart from non-uniform [mufti] days) though. so I am usually stuck in a bottle green skirt, with a white blouse and bottle green v-neck jumper. :S

 

[Whitelinen]

^ I'd love it if we had school uniforms...

 

[Couture_Tribe]

There's no real trend in my high school.. People just wear what they feel like.
Some (not that many though) wear ordinary sweatpants and t-shirts and others go all out bohemian in vintage dresses. It varies a lot. There's quite a few (both girls and boys) that are "into" fashion and really look stylish, but they're not looked upon as special or anything. I guess the common thing for all is that we don't really care about how the others dress, you could come in wearing a pyjamas (one girl did) and people wouldn't even look at you, but same goes if you were to come wearing high heels and a dress (a girl in my class always does)
The attitude is very relaxed generally.

I envy that attitude!

 

[Couture_Tribe]

^Uhhh same thing at my school. WHY did they have to come to Canada?!?

I'm noticing more girls trying to be really trendy, and it ends up looking nasty. I saw this girl wearing a skull print scarf wrapped around her head, oversized sunglasses, Juicy Couture sweater, TNA fur trimmed jacket, TNA pants, Uggs, and a metallic hobo purse. I wanted to say: "lay off the magazines for a while and try something original!" .... but I held my tongue.

I know! The store landed the Canadian market with a couture attitude. They only opened ONE store in the entire Canada .

That girl description just made me jeer, because as I read it, that's how those self labelled "cool" or "popular" girls all dress in my school . Most considers TNA a huge designer brand. I just faint everytime I have class with a mob of them.



What's more absurd is that, today, a few guys who teased my clothes half year ago, all showed up in class with Holister. I just fainted, and sneered " these people are hopeless"

 

[ilaughead]

Oy, I saw a girl today wearing tan Uggs, a horrible fake tan, ratty brown hair with obvious bleached streaks, a miniskirt, gold top with with mini-jacket, huge sparkly gold belt around the waist, and a bright gold headband.

I think I saw her here, too! Just kidding, but it's funny to see this trend so inexcapable in America, and from the sounds of it, Canada, too!

 

[mjjluver]

Why didn't I find this sooner?

I'm so fed up with the trends at my school. I am 17 yrs old and it drives me up the wall. My school is basically everyone trying too hard to be different and you can tell. A bunch of nonsense of not matching and just throwing on anything to try and create that sloppy I don't care look. I admit I go to a school where people are all mostly wealthy, so then there's the same I'm rich trend as well. overly huge designer bags, anything with a label that screams I have money. Hair dyed and fried to the roots. Lots of hideous make-up. It makes me want to push them all down stairs!!! And then they criticize anyone who isn't like them, the conformity is appalling. But as it was stated before this is high school and if you don't conform you are immediately disowned by peers. College is only a step away. I say to myself.

 

[xmodel citizen]

Do you guys see people out and about wearing trackpants and looking like they woke up and didin't even get dressed? Everyday girls come to school wearing generally huge trackpants, a t-shirt and flip-flops, along with messy bed hair. Quite frankly, I think it looks disgusting! Sure, you're not going out to dinner or whatever but at least put some effort into looking presentable

haha,. this is my school every day! The athletic girls are the worst. This girl I know is on the track team (and I love her to death) but every day she shows up in jeans, a hoodie and flip flops. Haha, one of the girls is a cheerleader and gymnast and she always wears sweats, a messy pony tail and socks with these hideous sandal things the cheer squad sells for $20. One of my best friends plays soccer, softball and tennis and she consistently wears Crocs with socks despite my protests.

My school is very casual, but some people try and dress with "style". And by style I mean overloading on every "trend" under the sun.

 

[Kawari]

Frankly, in high school I don't think anyone can actually "win." You're either too trendy or too much of an outsider. You're either too preppy, hip-hop, or emo. You're too lazy, boring, outlandish, fake, dorky, sporty, or whatever else teens can come up when it comes to fashion.
It's high school. I mean when you're a teenager, your world is everything!! I mean I know people who seriously love their A&F, AE, or Hollister. I don't alwyas agree with it, but that's cool. It's just not my style. Some kids are into the hip-hop style. That's cool too. People tend to hang out with other people they have interests with. Sometimes they dress alike. Don't get me wrong, there are probably people who dress alike and love it, but I've been fortunate to have not seen this since middle school. Just because people hang out together and dress alike, doesn't mean they're trying to conform though. I don't think that's a fair assumption.
High school is usually about conformity, but isin't that they way it's kind of always been? Stay with what is considered okay, or else you're a "deviant?" It's high school, and maybe when they go out and experience things outside of their neighborhoods, they'll change. I mean I didn't like what I was wearing a year ago, much less when I wore glitter makeup in middle school.
Maybe I'm just lucky I live in one of those middle class places where no one really cares, and lets people be themselves. Sure, most people shop from around the same area, but no one's a clone of each other. There's something unique about it.
Ha, about the sport look. I'm an athlete and I don't have a lot of time to spend fashionably at school. I'm usually in a hoddie and jeans, becuase I don't get home until late, I'm tired, and still have work and homework to do. By the time the next day comes around, I'm worn out and just trying to learn. I'm presentable and clean so I'm all for it.
Either way, I think we've all probably known someone, maybe even been friends, who is a "trendy or emo" but we like them because they're nice.

 

[Whitelinen]

Just because it is there and has always been the same it is right then? I still don't agree that there is a point behind teens having to categorize each other and strive to be someone else than they are.

 

[australian_girl]

Hey, does anyone have the "kiddie backpack" thing going on in their school/town? It's just a small child's backpack with some sort of cartoon on it. I've seen Dora the Explorer, Spiderman, Bob the Builder, polly Pocket, Cars, Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles etc etc. I thought maybe it was just my school, but I went across town and saw the same thing.

i went to a public school with a uniform and people use to wear those bags as far back as my sister started highschool (years 8-12 age 13 to 17) which was 1996. they still wear them to death as well. thats a long trend really..at least 11 years.

 

[stersita]

And then they bunch up their pants around the ankle and tie it with a rubberband or some sort of twisty tie? This is a BIG trend at my school with people who dress in a "hip hop" style. It's kind of like a paper bag waist, but around the ankle. It's really weird.

Everyone's doing this at my school right now

 

[shutterbug]

I think the most disturbing trend that I've witnessed is young prepubescent girls dressed in TnA with fake designer bags and processed hair. It's bad enough that this look has plagued the teenage population, but 8-12 year olds is a bit much to stomach.

Annoying trend #2 is rolling up ONE of your pant legs. This just goes beyond all reason.

 

[Diorling]

xmodel citizen[/B]] And then they bunch up their pants around the ankle and tie it with a rubberband or some sort of twisty tie? This is a BIG trend at my school with people who dress in a "hip hop" style. It's kind of like a paper bag waist, but around the ankle. It's really weird.

It's so they can show off thier shoes.

I was such a victim in highschool, still won best dressed two years in a row.

 

[xmodel citizen]

It's so they can show off thier shoes.

It's still f*ckin' weird

Haha, my school gives out the lamest superlatives, so we don't have a best dressed.

 

[shopsmuch]

Why didn't I find this sooner?

I'm so fed up with the trends at my school. I am 17 yrs old and it drives me up the wall. My school is basically everyone trying too hard to be different and you can tell. A bunch of nonsense of not matching and just throwing on anything to try and create that sloppy I don't care look. I admit I go to a school where people are all mostly wealthy, so then there's the same I'm rich trend as well. overly huge designer bags, anything with a label that screams I have money. Hair dyed and fried to the roots. Lots of hideous make-up. It makes me want to push them all down stairs!!! And then they criticize anyone who isn't like them, the conformity is appalling. But as it was stated before this is high school and if you don't conform you are immediately disowned by peers. College is only a step away. I say to myself.

sadly, if your college at all resembles my college, it will be no haven. i thought it was awful that you had to be wearing a hollister logo tshirt, american eagle jeans, and fake birkenstocks or pink uggs (or ugg wannabes) to be "well-dressed" at my high school, but college has proven to be just as bad if not worse. i wear skirts and heels and people stare as if i am in the process of mutating into an orange dragon or something. because the required uniform at my college is university logo hoodie, pajama pants, and flip flops (even if it's 15 degrees and snowing outside). you clearly must be an unacceptable freak of nature to make any sort of attempt to look presentable when getting dressed in the morning.

 

[Kawari]

Just because it is there and has always been the same it is right then? I still don't agree that there is a point behind teens having to categorize each other and strive to be someone else than they are.

No, just because it's always been that way doesn't make it right. There is no point in having teens catagorize each other and strive to be someone else. The problem is, is that many teens don't know who they are yet. So when they find something they feel even remotely comfortable with, they go with it all the way and tend to exclude others. It makes them feel safe. Is it right? Of course not! The people I'm around are lucky they have the resources to express themselves freely, for the most part. I think it's sad they kind of don't, but I hope they'll mature and realize that they shouldn't be trying to impress others or do something just to fit in and not get teased for it.
I do think though, that high school is horrible in some ways. Conformity is the word of "safeness."
I think what's even scarier is when I see adults who catagorize each other becaue of dress.

 

[Couture_Tribe]

I just can not endure high school, I am now up to a point where I am too fed up with all those mobs at this age. I don't want to dress for fashion any more, that I will only dress up during holidays and on weekends. Those swarmmy people's world is merely as big as this school and their home, I am too good to even "compete" with them (I am being conciet, becuase of my inner abhorrent).