first day of classes

[flea]

Note to self: attempt to avoid being in the hallways of your building when classes change. For the semi-crowd-phobic, it is rather terrifying. A sea of humanity.

Fashion notes from the Uggaversity:

Green seems to be in. Nike Tempo Track Running shorts (http://www.nike.com/index.jhtml?cp=USNS_KW_0611081618&l=nikestore,home&re=US&co=US&la=EN&ef_id=1778:3:s_
5bb224a0c3a314c6fd81c4019cd222a6_1677323620:rp9oD0o-JyoAAAlTaikAAAAa:20080818224211#l=
nikestore,grid,_pdp,cid-1/gid-104064/pid-89630,_grid,f-10001+12002+4294967255&re=US&co=US&la=EN) are definitely in - every other woman who wasn't dressed up was wearing them.

Girls are preppier than boys - very few boys with popped collars. I'd say the reverse was true at the Looniversity.

Sorority pledges (viewed en masse last week, several hundred) are heavily blonde (there were brunettes, but not in a proportion that Nature supports), heavily tanned (I saw no nonwhite pledges, and no white ones as pale as me), but surprisingly, came in a variety of shapes (i.e. not all stick-thin; nobody was seriously overweight, but there were plenty of thighs, some of which were certainly plus-sized). They universally wore above-the-knee dresses, mainly empire-waisted/babydolls, and flat shoes (lots of dressy-ish flip flops). Last year, I am told, it was all strapless. My question is, how do they KNOW? I mean, they have literally just arrived on campus!

Comments

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

I KNOW this is not the message I was supposed to get from this post, but I am glad to know I can still wear the short empire-waisted dress I bought a couple of years ago.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Only if you dye your hair!

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

Pfft -- I am an individual!

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

how do they KNOW?

I hear tell there's this thing called the internet that all the kids are using these days. There's email, instant messaging, and something called myspace. Or was it facebook?

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Oh, BTW, I saw this today, and knowing your fascination with children's names figured you'd want to see it, too.

[fatoudust.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

When I started private lessons back up, I was heavily complimented on my tan and disparaged about my haircut. It was odd to me. I mean, I have a tan because I spent ten weeks outside. But I'd kinda thought it wasn't all that necessary to have a tan anymore. The whole skin cancer thing, you know.

But between this and Project Runway, I'm guessing I'm wrong, and tanning is still important. Which is weird.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I always wondered myself. I guess they just all shop from the same stores, and buy whatever is in the stores, and that's why they match?