<p>Because I will be moving into my dorm in a little over two months, I've been starting to think about the amount of stuff I need to lug halfway across the country with me. One of my biggest concerns is clothing. I've been hearing to bring about 1-2 week's worth of clothing, but I don't know if that's reasonable, especially because I will not have the opportunity to go home very often. And I'm not exactly going to a school where there's lots of great shopping nearby, either.</p>
<p>So basically, I am just wondering how much clothing everyone brought with them to their dorm.</p>
<p>That sounds unreasonable and I’m a guy. I bring formal wear (I have a 2 blazers, 2 suits, and a couple dress pants) , basics to wear underneath polos and shirts, I have a weeks worth of both polos and shirts, I have a weeks worth of graphic t-shirts, and I have a lot of different shorts and jeans. </p>
<p>I had a ton of clothes at my dorm by the time I left, I still haven’t managed to unpack it all. I had two pairs of jeans, like 6 pairs of shorts (purchased last month of school), two pairs of dress pants, a pair of khakis, like 7 sweaters, 10 tops, maybe 10 t shirts, and like 5 hoodies. I had too much. lol. But I only had to do laundry like once a month.</p>
<p>I have no idea what I am going to bring next time. But I definitely want to stick to Summer/Fall clothes, swap out at Thanksgiving, and then swap again in March. Part of my problem last year was that I never swapped again once I brought my winter clothes, and my parents are half an hour away so I had no excuse. So I essentially had two whole wardrobes at once.</p>
<p>I think 2 weeks of clothing is definitely reasonable. I had about 3, but that’s because I brought basically my entire wardrobe minus the things that I never wear, and I usually did laundry about every 2 weeks because those were the clothes I liked the best!</p>
<p>I mean it depends on how conscious you are of how you dress … Like me I’m not afraid to admit it lol I’m all about fashion you’ll never see me walking around campus with shorts flipflops and college gear lol … I basically have my entire closet filled of clothes and a dresser full of em as well haahaha</p>
<p>I mean it definitely takes up some extra room but it works out … got to look good</p>
<p>As a girl, and I’ve gone 3 weeks without doing laundry (exams can pile up, sometimes you try to do laundry but all the machines are taken). </p>
<p>That means at least 2-3 weeks of underwear, socks, and tops. I’ve done laundry sometimes just because I was out of underwear. But you don’t need three weeks of sweaters/sweatshirts for when it is cold out, and you don’t need 3 weeks of pants (I don’t know anyone who washes jeans after only wearing them once).</p>
<p>Well, at my college the laundry is free and I don’t mind doing it. I was kinda just planning on buying 5 jeans (I only have 2 on me at the moment), like 2 more athletic shorts, and a bunch more shirts. But I was really only thinking of 1-2 weeks, more like 1 actually. I don’t know, my high school sorta had uniform so all my pants are khaki and after wearing that for 10 years I plan to burn them. I think I’m just worried about the winter clothes but it’s not much in TX so I’ll probably just buy that up there.</p>
<p>I definitely recommend two weeks of socks and underwear. I thought that was ridiculous as I lived on about 6 or 7 days worth at home, but my grandmother insisted and kept coming over with more underwear and I absolutely did end up needing it. There was only one day a week when I really had time to sit there and do a load of laundry, and if I missed that window of opportunity for any reason I needed a whole extra week of socks and underwear to get me through.</p>
<p>^^ My laundry was dirt cheap, and I didn’t mind doing it.</p>
<p>I also wore a uniform in high school, but we didn’t have khakis (yay plaid skirts!), but I stand by this- have a minimum of 2 weeks of underwear.</p>
<p>It’s one thing if you have to rewear a shirt (I still say that’s gross, especially in september since I go to a school wear it’s really humid), but another to be out of underwear.</p>
<p>oh god, yeah I’d bring a ton of undies. I generally bring even more than I think I’ll need and I plan to splurge on some nicer bras at vicotrias secret, but just regular clothes? </p>
<p>I don’t know, maybe I’ll buy some more if I see sales.</p>
<p>I would say 2-3 weeks of clothing. And don’t forget more formal attire. I definitely regretted not taking more than 1 set first semester and am gonna bring a tie next year too haha</p>
<p>I only had to wear something “formal” two or three my entire freshman year…there was Snow Ball in December (a semi formal dance), my RA interview in January, and a job interview in March…so with that, maybe one or two outfits, but not more unless you go to a big school or think you’ll be wearing formal clothes often for some reason.</p>
<p>If you’re a business major, a lot of schools will require you to dress business casual/professional for a lot of events and mock interviews. I probably wore business casual (slacks and a nice dress shirt) to class a handful of times in the fall and at least 30% of the time in the spring because of my more business-oriented classes. Lots of speech giving and such.</p>
<p>I probably brought 7 polo shirts, 5 or 6 t-shirts, 10 button-down sport/casual shirts, 3 nice dress shirts (white and blue), 3 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of khakis, 2 pairs of slacks/suit pants, and a little under 2 weeks of boxers/undershirts and 14 pairs of socks, plus some other misc workout clothes, etc.</p>
<p>I found that most often I would do laundry every other week, when I ran out of boxers or undershirts. I would suggest bringing a lot of extra undershirts or old large t-shirts to wear around your room at night. I always wore polo’s on weekdays/to classes and then in the evening I would just wear the undershirt when studying, browsing the internet, going to bed, etc.</p>
<p>I went to school in Texas where we only have one or two weeks where it really got cold in winter, so for most of Oct/Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb when it was < 60 degrees but not too cold out I would just wear the casual button downs instead of polos, which is why it seems like I have a lot of them compared to most people. It was easier than taking a jacket on and off all day.</p>
<p>And don’t forget nice shoes with that suit/dress clothes. I know plenty of people who overlooked that.</p>
<p>I would say to bring lots of underwear and socks as a definite. Clothing wise if your a freshman, bring alot so you get use to living on your own and then the rest of your years you can plan it out better.</p>
<p>One more thing that wasnt mentioned before: if you are planning to go to church, make sure to bring church clothes and shoes, which is basically the same thing as formal clothes.</p>
<p>Church clothes would depend on the church though, wouldn’t they?</p>
<p>For church, except Easter and Christmas, and occasionally Palm Sunday, I don’t get dressed up, and that’s the norm both at my home church and at the chapel at my school. Jeans and t-shirts are 100% acceptable. Heck, when I went to the Ash Wednesday service at school, I was in sweats and wasn’t the only one! (For the record – that was the only time ever in my life that I wore sweats to church, but I hadn’t planned on going since I wasn’t feeling well hence the sweats, and my friends dragged me after dinner).</p>
<p>^It would depend on the church and on the person also. My church is not that formal since plenty of people come in wearing sandels. But I was raised to look my absolute best in church, and most likely that habit will stick throughout college.</p>
<p>“Heck, when I went to the Ash Wednesday service at school, I was in sweats and wasn’t the only one!”</p>
<p>-My mother will kill me if she found out I did that! :)</p>
<p>Bring as much as you can…the more clothes you bring, the less laundry you’ll have to do.</p>
<p>Definitely bring at least one set of dress clothes…you’ll likely have a presentation, interview, etc to do. You probably won’t need a ton unless that’s your preferred style of attire, but one or two sets won’t hurt.</p>