do you consider frat kids fashionable?

[eddiecibrian]

so i was wondering, since my school is quite the frat school, and i see how they dress, on a scale from 1-10, do you guys consider them fashionable? it seems to me like some of the stuff actually looks good on them

 

[TylerDurden]

I guess you expect them to wear the stuff. But most of it looks sloppy... Most will have beer bellies soon enough, and their tight polo's and baggy kaki cargo shorts won't fit anymore. Of course with mom and dad paying for everything, they'll just run over to the Gap/AE/Holister/Aeropostale and buy a whole new wardrobe every month. I mean how else are they gonna get into to that sorority chicks pants..

It's not up to style forums standards of dress....

 

[eddiecibrian]

the frat kids these days.... at least at my school, seems to be sporting the country club, polo, the rich casual look, or probably just whatever their dads/ older brothers wore...etc, they seem to stay away from skinny jeans or anything metro
where they may fail is the brightness of color to everything, and what are those shoes they all wear with no socks called? sperrys?

 

[dtmt]

Many frat boys wear Abercrombie/Hollister t-shirts. I have also noticed that the gay dudes in the gay part of town wear the same. Since it's a well-known fact that most fashion designers are homosexual we can only conclude that frat guys are extremely fashionable.

 

[tagutcow]

Yeah, I caught myself admiring (no ****) the Ambercrombie summer look on a few frat guys in a local bar. Basically, a muscle-fit graphic t-shirt washed to the color of dryer lint, light washed straight leg jeans, and sneakers. If you have the physique to pull it off, it's really not a bad look at all. It probably woudn't get you too far in WAYWT, though.

 

[Another New Yorker]

As a frat boy i'm a little offended. Down south, while they may not be total igents, they are many steps above the abercrombie gain. We pretty much spit on hollister up here. Although in a lot of cases, mom and dad are paying for everything, they're paying for vineyard vines, brooks brothers, Polo, southern proper, Southern tide, bills khakis, wayfarer sunglasses, croakies, orvis, sperrys, north face, patangonia, etc.

OCBD's, slightly short shorts of various colors, chinos of various colors, surcingles, I consider the casual dress here quite MC approved, if not SWD approved.

 

[Macallan9]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

Yeah, I caught myself admiring (no ****) the Ambercrombie summer look on a few frat guys in a local bar. Basically, a muscle-fit graphic t-shirt washed to the color of dryer lint, light washed straight leg jeans, and sneakers. If you have the physique to pull it off, it's really not a bad look at all. It probably woudn't get you too far in WAYWT, though.

As long as the sneakers are CP/Lanvin, sounds like it'd fit right in SW&D WAYWT

 

[inq89]

Originally Posted by Another New Yorker

As a frat boy i'm a little offended. Down south, while they may not be total igents, they are many steps above the abercrombie gain. We pretty much spit on hollister up here. Although in a lot of cases, mom and dad are paying for everything, they're paying for vineyard vines, brooks brothers, Polo, southern proper, Southern tide, bills khakis, wayfarer sunglasses, croakies, orvis, sperrys, north face, patangonia, etc. OCBD's, slightly short shorts of various colors, chinos of various colors, surcingles, I consider the casual dress here quite MC approved, if not SWD approved.
I agree, it depends on where these fratters go to school. Ole Miss or similar, I'd say yes compared to the average kid's sweatpants and flip flops attire. They dress up to class and football games on a regular basis. Strictly in the prep / trad sense of fashion. But there is a difference between fratty and trad that is crossed many times.

 

[Slopho]

Originally Posted by dtmt

Many frat boys wear Abercrombie/Hollister t-shirts. I have also noticed that the gay dudes in the gay part of town wear the same. Since it's a well-known fact that most fashion designers are homosexual we can only conclude that frat guys are extremely fashionable.

This is worded like an LSAT question.

 

[Gibonius]

It depends entirely on the school. Where I went to undergrad, the frat guys wore the same t-shirt/pants combo that everyone else did, they just usually wore t-shirts related to the frat or some sorority mixer they had gone to. Now I'm down in the South, and the frat attire is completely different (summarized by someone above). I don't generally find them "fashionable" because it's a damn uniform for most, no thought or free will involved. They look ok, but there's a soullessness about it, like they're going to get kicked out if they wear the wrong brand or a flatfront khakis. The ones who do things a little different can be fun. People not from the South might think I dress "fratty" from time to time, but no one down here would make that mistake.

 

[Master-Classter]

do the frat kids basically grow up to be the trad adults?

 

[Steve Thomas]

Where I went to university the frat dudes looked exactly like 95% of the rest of the dudes on campus: baggy cargo shorts (too big baggy jeans with the back of the leg frayed from dragging the ground if it was cold), a pub crawl or Affliction t-shirt, and flip flops or some sort of New Balance or Nike running shoe. The only real differentiation came from the cheap baseball caps with their frat letters.

 

[Gibonius]

Originally Posted by Master-Classter

do the frat kids basically grow up to be the trad adults?

It appears the uniform is largely consigned to the country club upon graduation.

 

[HRoi]

Lol. I don't think even frat guys consider frat guys fashionable

 

[unjung]

Please refer to this thread.