<p>I know the title of my thread may sound weird and remotely sane but it's true. When most people think of fashion, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Clothing huh? Well fashion has not only embraced clothing and style but where one attends college as well. Think about it. If you walk down the street in Louis Vuitton, Fendi or Prada, people would either automatically assume you're high-maintenance, flamboyant or just picky with what you wear. Most likely, knowing how expensive these clothing are, it is true about the person. Well, if you ask someone wear they go to school and they reply "MIT" the first thing that you think of is "NERD, he/she is interested in engineer etc." or take my school for example, if someone replies to you stating they attend Syracuse then you'd automatically assume they are a basketball/lacrosse fan or they have a passion for Journalism or Architecture. See, it all boils down to personality. Where you attend college is fashion in it's on way because it speaks volumes about a person. The school one attends is an expression in it of itself. Correct?</p>
<p>luckily public schools are not like that</p>
<p>Everything you do is an expression of yourself. I don’t see what’s to remarkable here.</p>
<p>The way you’re describing it, college has always been a “fashion statement”, it’s not something that’s happened now. In the 1800’s if you told people you were going to Harvard they would react differently than if you were going to a public school, and it’s the same way now. I agree with Adam, everything you do is an expression of yourself; people judge you by your choices. Yeah, public schools are like that too - if I meet someone from U Florida or Penn State, I’d guess they were into partying a lot…public schools can be a statement too. </p>
<p>also, you’re kind of just saying people stereotype colleges and apply the stereotype to those students, which makes sense.</p>
<p>It’s not the first stereotype that pops into your mind that is important. It is whether you can get beyond a book’s cover and judge it for its contents.</p>
<p>I agree somewhat. Every school has it’s sort of collective culture and reputation that you sort of inherit when you enroll.</p>
<p>I go to NYU and I get this a lot. You’d be surprised by how many people have over romanticized notions going to NYU and think we’re automatically “cool”.</p>
<p>Certainly a lot of incredibly cool kids at NYU though, everyone always seems to be really self driven and have their thing that they do. A lot of kids once they know what kind of career they want can get a huge head start while still in school. Plus once you move off campus you really learn what it’s like to live like an adult you mature a lot faster.</p>
<p>Alix2012, yes but earlier in the years people did not value going to college as much as now. Now that the economy is in a crisis, going to college is now a big deal.</p>
<p>I get much more of a complement/reaction when I tell people my major than which school I attend.</p>
<p>“If you walk down the street in Louis Vuitton, Fendi or Prada, people would either automatically assume you’re high-maintenance, flamboyant or just picky with what you wear.”
Depends if what you wear is clothes. Very hard to find LV, Fendi, or Prada clothes that have monogrammed prints all over it, the way handbags do. No one will know the clothes are LV, Fendi, or Prada unless the person has extremely high taste and can tell collections by different pieces.
Frankly, the average person wouldn’t tell the difference between high end or low end fashion clothes. Only people without taste would have monogrammed(which should only be reserved to bags if at that) outfits. And you can bet that if you have clothes with LV or Fendi or Prada monograms/labels all over it, it’s bound to be fake. High fashion houses are not Ed Hardy. </p>
<p>Fall 2009 shows
[Prada</a> Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Complete Collection](<a href=“http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-PRADA]Prada”>http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-PRADA)
[Fendi</a> Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Complete Collection](<a href=“http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-FENDI]Fendi”>http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-FENDI)
[Louis</a> Vuitton Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Complete Collection](<a href=“http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-LVUITTON]Louis”>http://www.style.com/fashionshows/complete/F2009RTW-LVUITTON)</p>
<p>Relative to the College name and Fashion, it’s a matter of taste. The school might insinuate something about your education, but nothing insinuates more about your tastes or personality than what you chose to do with that “label.” I rather speak for myself, than have a school speak for me.</p>
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<p>Ha, I go to Cooper Union and think you guys are pathetic. 
jk</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone cares about my college that much.</p>
<p>“I go to Cooper Union”</p>
<p>Wow! Great school. :D</p>
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If by “cool” you mean artsy uber-liberal hipster rich kids who all study Film and are mostly gay, then sure…
Hey, at least we have a stereotype, no one knows what Cooper Union is. 
(it’s like the “secret” prestigious school)</p>
<p>Plattsburgh, half of College Confidential is obsessed with Columbia, what are you talking about?!</p>
<p>I would rather be unknown and blow everyone away than hyped up and be a disappointment. That said, you guys have a wonderful library, thanks for keeping it open 24/7.</p>
<p>“If by “cool” you mean artsy uber-liberal hipster rich kids who all study Film and are mostly gay, then sure”</p>
<p>Hah, that’s the reality not the stereotype. Somehow Stern on the opposite side of the spectrum coexists with the weirdness that is our school.</p>
<p>I don’t really seem to observe many of the artsy uber-liberal rich gay kids at NYU while walking around its “campus”. We do have some of those artsy uber-liberal gay kids on my campus though.</p>
<p>NYU kids…ugh.</p>
<p>NYU kids have more style than Columbians at least.</p>
<p>There’s 40,000+ students at NYU… it’s really not fair to stereotype such a huge group. Yeah there’s artsy liberal Tisch kids, but there’s also buttoned-up conservative Stern kids, and a bunch of other schools and colleges.</p>
<p>Now, Cooper, there are like a dozen kids there. They’re all either artists, architects, or engineers. ;P</p>
<p>So like…college specific apparel have become a criterion for acceptable fashion? </p>
<p>Well, I would agree with you then. Because it’s about time someone pointed out that those Crimson hoodies from Harvard look really ***.</p>