Students at more expensive colleges dress better?

[mensimageconsultant]

This question is a precursor to an idea for helping college students dress better. (No, there is no money in it for image consulting.)

Please consider recent experience only. What was true 10 or 20 years ago is not necessarily true today.

 

[LabelKing]

Just look at Josepidal's question of school-themed fleece-so no.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by mensimageconsultant

This question is a precursor to an idea for helping college students dress better. (No, there is no money in it for image consulting.)

Please consider recent experience only. What was true 10 or 20 years ago is not necessarily true today.
LOL, that pretty much disqualifies me . . .

 

[drizzt3117]

Dress better = more expensive clothing? or better taste?

I would imagine that the average USC undergrad wears more expensive clothing on average than the average CSU-Northridge undergrad, but I can't speak about their tastes.

 

[sho'nuff]

hey man i graduated from northridge and when i went in the early nineties i was hip dressed in Cross- Colours and saggy jeans with pinstripe NY yankees baseball cap and a gnarled street attitude look in my face.


now i look back, i would have slapped me upside the face.

 

[marc237]

Based on my daughter's friends - all I can say is that while they may spend more money on particular clothing items, the level of dress is no great shakes.

 

[RJman]

Man, these polls just get dumber and dumber.

 

[mensimageconsultant]

More expensive doesn't mean better, although it often does look better.

 

[Joel_Cairo]

good god no. I graduated a couple years ago with a $160K tab, and definatly didn't notice my campus looking any better, sartorially, than the surrounding area. These students may dress more expensively, as they typically have more money to spend, but daddy's AmEx doesn't buy taste.

 

[lawyerdad]

But then, aside from what seem to be myriad other problems with the question, don't you have to define what it means to "dress better"? You're posting this question on a board where most, albeit not all, of the members are past college age. So is the question about how well students at different colleges dress according to the standards of members of their parents' generation? Does one judge "dressing better" by students according to the same metrics one would use in evaluating the dress of business professionals, or by some other standard that takes into account what is "appropriate", given the various practical considerations, for college students?

 

[mensimageconsultant]

That's a legitimate complaint. Who knows - maybe students at pricier colleges are more appearance-conscious? Perhaps the question would have made more sense in the Streetwear forum.

 

[summej2]

My alma mater (Kenyon) has the dubious distinction of being in the top five most expensive

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/21/pf/c...eges/index.htm

and I find that neither then nor today the students dressed particularly well. There was, and still is, a penchant to Ivy League old-boy dress (suspenders, bow ties, OCBD, rep ties, etc.)

 

[abc123]

I attend one of the "expensive private schools", though I don't have much experience spending time at the "cheaper" school. A few observations -

-Generally, the girls care a lot more than the guys. A LOT more.
-People with money seem to care more, and this is almost an iron-clad rule as far as I can tell. Why richer kids seem to care more about their appeareance, I won't speculate, but people with money usually look far more put together.
-Clothes really are status symbols - either with blatant designer brand names, or in preppy styles (I fall into this style of dress, just for reference).
-Flip flops are worn everywhere, even in the depths of winter. Personally, I have forsaken them, except when at home, walking to do laundry, or at the beach/lake. People complain a lot about cold toes, its really rather entertaining.
-When people get dressed up (for an interview, or whatever) they generally look nice, the only problem is rubber soled shoes. Besides that I'm generally impressed with how well turned out people look when they are dressing up. Otherwise, yes, those who make an effort wear expensive clothes, but designer jeans and an untucked stripy shirt don't look that great to me. Of course, I'm the one in pink pants, bowties, tweed, and khakis, which may not look great to other people...

 

[zjpj83]

Originally Posted by RJman

Man, these polls just get dumber and dumber.

 

[designprofessor]

I went to art school - do mohawks and leather jackets count as better?