<p>I assume the wardrobe is still nice" but not as formal as for classical auditions. Any thoughts, you USC/Berklee/Belmont parents/students?</p>
<p>Thanks as always!</p>
<p>My son just aimed to look “cool”. In other words he wore the clothes he would wear if he was doing a gig at a club or taking a date to a nice restaurant.** He said that kids at the auditions had the full range of clothing. Some wore suits, others wore what they probably wear every day. His choice felt right in the middle.</p>
<p>**For my son this often involves a nice button down shirt in a funky color (not White, maybe black) and slim cut pants not jeans with black dress shoes and these days colored socks (because they are trendy). Sometimes he wore a tie, but often he didn’t. He also had some jacket that he bought at some Mall Store that sells trendy male clothes that he would sometimes wear as well. It wasn’t a suit jacket, but it was nice.</p>
<p>I was just looking at a picture I took on my phone of my son at USC in Jan. last year on audition day (where he attends now) playing a guitar outside of the School of Film. I sent it to him over the weekend and said, “remember this?” He was wearing a black shirt, slim cut pants, and cool looking shoes, exactly what StacJip’s described his son wearing. Must be the hip thing to do. I remember him sometimes wearing a trendy jacket, too. He tried to wear what he would wear when performing with his band. Gosh, I can’t believe the audition season ended and he is now a freshman…seems like yesterday. Good luck and have fun!</p>
<p>My son did a jazz audition last year and didn’t look particularly “cool”. Normally for jazz gigs he wore black and black; that day, he wore khakis and a button-down shirt. He had a composition interview the same day, so I guess he went pretty conservative. He said he saw everything throughout his auditions. I recall someone showed up in a t-shirt, jeans and flip-flops. I wouldn’t recommend that. You can’t go wrong with your usual gig-wear.</p>
<p>For my D’s Berklee audition she went to Boston and I sat in the room watching all the nervous auditionees and their support groups (parents, friends). The attire varied widely, but there was definitely no one in the room that was dressed formally. The most serious looking male in the room wore dark pants (like black khaki’s) and a white shirt, but no tie. </p>
<p>My D wore black jeans and a sleeveless silk-type button-up shirt that matched the jazz persona that she is when she performs. Her shoes were some type of heel, but a casual 1 -2" heel. There was another girl there wearing light jeans (white - it was August) and a dressy shirt as well. </p>
<p>Many students that were auditioning looked to be dressed in their best everyday college clothes. The problem is that I couldn’t tell you who got in and who received scholarship so am not sure what they wore mattered one way or the other. My own D did get accepted with a nice scholarship, but I’m certain her performance and confidence played a stronger role.</p>
<p>For a jazz audtion I would check what the school’s jazz groups wear and copy that. That way the faculty member(s) doing the auditioning will see the student as they expect to them when they are a student there.</p>
<p>DD was accepted @ Berklee with a substantial scholarship. For the audition in November she wore a blue coverup over a print dress with a wide belt and ballet flats. For snowy auditions in January she favored a collegiate look with gray dress pants, dressy white shirt and sometimes a cardigan/blazer.</p>
<p>While we watched the kids line up for auditions at Berklee, we noticed a wide range of clothing styles. Whenever we saw a kid in a tux or evening dress, we’d look up at the board where it listed names and instruments in line order. Yup, the most formal kids were almost always vocalists or pianists. So we did some very unscientific generalizing about some of the others–well, there’s nothing else to do! Percussionists and woodwinds tended toward “well-dressed hipster” style–guys with skinny ties, girls kind of vintage-y. Guitarists were the only ones in t-shirts. There were exceptions in all categories. (Our son the guitarist was in a dress shirt and scarf, and casual black pants–As said above, about the same thing he’d wear for a public gig.) </p>
<p>Esp. at a school like Berklee, I doubt that dress has anything to do with admissions decisions, but it is important for the auditioner to feel comfortable and confident about his/her appearance to do their best.</p>