Pajama pants, Crocs, and jorts.
These have become the high school staples of the modern century, an easy identifier for any high schooler, and most importantly, a trend. Trends have been around since the 14th century, when women still wore gowns and men pranced around in tunics; and trends still have people wrapped around their fashionable, little finger.
Nowadays, we’ve switched out the stockings and gowns for Converse, tiny top and big pants duo, or the highly-acclaimed pajamas in public.
We’ve used fashion for art of expression for years, using it to describe the feelings we don’t know how to verbalize or tell others what we’d decided is easier to keep silent, and whether it be pairing sports jerseys to go with coquette skirts or manage to sneak UGG boots in every outfit conjured, we’ve managed to speak our minds.
Before we dive into the weird and wacky fashion trend world, let’s dive into what it means. Fashion trends are a specific look one does that later wriggles its way into the acceptance of society, then BAM. Everyone and their mother starts wearing it. Examples of these are jorts, and Converse, — even the Y2K aesthetic has been revived from the 2000’s grave. Some of the newest high school clothing trends are flared leggings, graphic tees, white sneakers, and accessories such as flashy belts, neck chains, and rings.
Speaking of it, trends tend to be recycled as much as the average Coca-Cola bottle. Back in the 2000s, the 70s were all the rage, and even now, twenty full years later, early 2000s fashion has hit the closets of plenty of modern-day teens.
Of course, instead of listening to this story’s advice, we’ll take it to DV students and their opinions on what’s hot.
Arushi Bhide, a DV freshman who appreciates a good pair of jorts, spoke up about jort popularity.
“The jorts thing, baggy oversized jorts trend. They’re really versatile, they go with pretty much anything.”
Jorts are a style of pants that mash jeans and shorts together, creating a
Bhide enjoys a stylish fit and doesn’t care about what others think of it.
“I really like Converse, I have a pair and I feel like they take you back to fashion in the 80s, I feel like they’ll be really popular back then.”
“They’re so versatile they go with any gender and with every outfit.”
Furthermore, in Bhide’s opinion, bubble skirts aren’t a hit. These are skirts that are collected at the hem to make a bubble-like shape while wearing them. Meanwhile, Target’s T-shirt section is a no-go.
“I get most of my inspo from my brother, since he’s the one coming shopping with me.
A lot of my shirts I wear are his, which either he doesn’t fit or he doesn’t like. I snag them and make it work. And he’s the one who introduced me to jorts.”
She also takes style inspiration from looking around her surroundings, looking at fellow classmates or upperclassmen’s wear to see if she can visualize herself wearing it.
Cyrus Chu, a DV sophomore, has his personal take on fashion.
“If you think someone is cool and they’re wearing this outfit, you’d want to look cool. I think all of us that consume social media are guilty of this mindset.”
A quality-over-quantity kind of person, Chu prefers the clean-cut way of dressing.
“I tend to view the upperclassmen, who dress themselves up, to be more mature.”
Chu dresses in button-downs, mostly due to his little sister teasing him into new things.
“I don’t really like Temu and Shein. They’re not ecologically friendly”
“I like to wear my clothing and get use out of it.”
At the end of the day, we all wear clothing the way we decide to wear it and choose whether or not the trends apply to us. Even if you decide to cut all the collars off your shirts.
