<p>i just want to be liked for who i am,
not what brand im wearing.
this is so stressful,
as if everyone isnt already worried enough about fitting in at a new school…
especially those of us who are going later than freshman year…</p>
<p>Summer session is a totally different group of kids and has little bearing on what goes on during the school year.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that at all HSs, public or private, day or boarding, clothes will be an issue. We’re teenagers!</p>
<p>The answer is to be secure in who you are. There are kids at my school who spend very little money and look amazingly fashionable buying clothes at second hand stores.</p>
<p>But because we mostly like clothes at our age, there will always be those who get to spend unreasonable amounts on the stuff.</p>
<p>adsum You said in an earlier post people wear rainbows quite a lot..what about havainas? =]
and I have a question about jeans too…do many people follow the recent fashion trends or just wear whatever they want (skinny, straight leg, dark wash…) ie. were there a lot of bright colored jeans around school when the school year ended? (since it seems to be the recent denim trend)</p>
<p>thank you much :)</p>
<p>c0llidE. brightly colored skinny jeans were all I saw on my revisit day at middlesex. however, Middlesex is one of the least preppy boarding schools. plus i heard skinny jeans are going out of fashion. too bad, too. i just started liking them 
where are you headed?</p>
<p>is it really that “unpreppy” to wear abercrombie? i have some nicer things (lacoste, juicy, etc.) but, i also have a good amount of abercrombie. would that be considered preppy?</p>
<p>Hellosunshine, I really doubt that people will care if your shirt has a moose rather than a horse on your shirts.</p>
<p>Ignore the bad grammar in that last post. Didn’t read it over..</p>
<p>Hellosunshine, Ab is for the younger set as is juicy, stops at around 14 when the
real designers tend to kick in Lacoste shirts and sweaters remain popular with they preppy set as do J Crew basics.</p>
<p>Middlesex not preppy!!!@@**??</p>
<p>Okay, cool. </p>
<p>I second Newyoka’s comment. Middlesex not preppy!!! What? Since when? </p>
<p>Out of all of the schools I visited Middlesex was the MOST preppy. Literally every kid I saw was wearing either Ralph or J.Crew…seemed pretty preppy to me.</p>
<p>When I revisited Middlesex, I also noticed that people weren’t dressed all that preppy…</p>
<p>Really? all i saw were skinny jeans and north face! of course, my friend who goes there is totally preppy, but she told me she was in the minority. maybe it’s a winter vs spring thing? Or a Saturday vs. weekday thing. I saw no ralph or J.Crew, hardly.</p>
<p>okay I don’t like giving out wrong info so I texted my friend from Middlesex and asked “Is MX preppy?”
Her reply: “Haha no it’s funny cause I did the same thing! I guess ya it is compared to other schools in the league”
The league= ISL. </p>
<p>So I guess it really depends on where else you applied.</p>
<p>risingjunior
haha it might indeed be a winter vs spring thing, hard to look fashionable-preppy in north face ew</p>
<p>and i’m going to exeter, you?</p>
<p>oh, and adsum goes to SPS, to those who were wondering.</p>
<p>cOllide. I am going to Middlesex haha</p>
<p>yeah, hellosunshine. kind of glad i’m not going there.</p>
<p>heh. same, risingjunior.</p>
<p>“i wasn’t that interested in clothes before I went to boarding school, but I’ve become horribly materialistic while I’ve been there, and I think everyone who isn’t already preppy goes through a phase of wanting all the preppy stuff they’ve been seeing on their classmates.”</p>
<p>Wow, I’d really like to defend SPS on this. There are some, and I emphasize some, people who are/ want to be preppy. However to say that ALL people are that materialistic is a disservice to the students and simply shows that adsum has not interacted with a very wide portion of her form. Considering that over a third of the school is on financial aid, it’s fiscally impossible that everyone wears “expensive clothes”. </p>
<p>“when I say clothes matter, I mean more that they identify you as being part of a certain group, not that everybody there really cares about them”</p>
<p>Really? Because it seems to me there are only a couple girls in each form who feel like this. While they may think it defines them and excludes others, it may come as a surprise to them that others aren’t yearning to become their spitting image. I’m not saying this lightly and to brush off adsum’s comments- the vast majority of the form, of course wants to dress nicely, but does not use clothing as the criteria to group themselves.</p>
<p>Just curious, is Urban Outfitters at all trendy/hip with the boarding school set?</p>
<p>yes.</p>
<p>10char.</p>
<p>SPS …</p>
<p>my daughter went “hippy chic” as a reaction to preppy. From CA so she never experienced the pink and green duckies though she was raised within waling distance of Stanford U. Around here the casual non-conformists are “in” … Google for Steve Jobs … black t and jeans everywhere.</p>
<p>Her “hippy chic” was done with great style I must say … she is now into more sophisticated structured clothing … from anywhere who has it.</p>
<p>Well … the teachers appreciated her individuality. She certainly stands out amongst the crowd which in our world is what it is all about in Silicon Valley.</p>