Sunday, August 29, 2004

Attire

You are wearing that to school?

Sloppily dressed undergraduates have been in the news recently, after a woman called a local radio station to complain about what they are wearing to class. Gen Y's SERENE LUO checks out the Singapore Management University, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University to find out what students are wearing on campus.

Rumpled miss
THIS undergrad comes to class in something that looks like what she wore to bed last night.

All dolled up
This girl is togged out in a midriff-baring top, mini-skirt and heels. It's fashionable - but is it right for school?

Code breaker
WHILE dress codes are required in libraries and lecture theatres, this student gets away with her casual attire.

Dressing down
RAGGED shorts and a baggy tee cap the relaxed look for this undergrad.

Beach bums
WITH their beach attire, it's a no-brainer where these two would much rather be.

Sports gal
SPORTING the casual look is a girl clad in shorts and a T-shirt endorsing her favourite sports club.

Doing legwork
BOY, do your homework. Showing off legs won't score points with the girls on campus.

Hot stuff
IF YOU'VE got it, flaunt it? Girls with long, lean legs have an advantage in this topic.

- The Straits Time Online


This reminds me of the attire that I wore in my polytechnic days. While I don't really recall anyone wearing shorts to school, there was indeed quite a lot of students in Bermudas, which I thought was still casual and yet not very sloppy.

I remembered my lecturer making noise at me for wearing sandels to schools. Ok, actually they were slippers but the name on the shoe box says sandals can? You know those Converse sandals made famous, or rather infamous by Ah Bengs? There is this thing about Ah Bengs, they seems to unglamour-tise everything they have. Remember the Jean Paul Gaultier wallets? I'm sure JPG himself would be jumping mad upon learning that his beautiful creations are in the usage of people like this. Ditto to the Converse sandals.Yes, I still have my sandals now because they are just so comfortable but you won't get to me see me wear it much! I'm more of a shoes person these days.

Well, I think they have a point in saying some of those students look like they belong somewhere else instead of in campus. You should always attend something looking like you are attending it. You dress for the occasion, big or small. No one goes to the beach in a white collar attire right? No one goes to lectures in bikinis right? Not that I mind, but it's a bit inappropriate. People would end up not really focusing on the lecture but rather somewhere else. Unless of course if you are one of the finalists of the "I-am-Fat" beauty pageant they have over in Thailand. =P

Similarly this reminds me of concert goers I see in short and slippers! What the?! Hello, at least have the decency to wear something more presentable can? There's absolutely nothing wrong with dressing down. Some people go to concert to relax. I go to concert to appreciate the music, but that's just me so I shall not digress. Furthermore, it's not like you need to be in shirt and pants or really formal or something. Is it very hard to just wear a pair of jeans, simple tee shirt and covered shoes to a concert? No right? You don't get married in your pajamas right? No?

Excuse me while I go out now to buy my lunch in my tuxedos. Oh, oops!
fjozn at 1:31 PM