<p>Yes, it’s pretentious.</p>
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<p>It’s strange because I do that too. My best friend is going to a local state school and I always wear her school’s sweater and tshirt. I even use the admitted student folder they sent me (I got in too) to hold papers in for school after mine was chewed up by the dog. I still resist from wearing my Ivy’s apparel, even though I’m so pleased to be going, because I think it’s:</p>
<p>a) pretentious, even though that’s completely illogical because my intention isn’t to rub it in anyone’s face
b) awkward. a lot of my friends from school applied and didn’t get in. While they aren’t bitter about it and have offered me sincere congratulations, it’s still a subject I’d rather not bring up.</p>
<p>I’m being stupid though. Just wear what you want. It’s a free country and if you’re proud of it, then show it.</p>
<p>^^Exactly. Just wear what you want. Wearing Harvard gear (or choosing not to) is perfectly legitimate, and if someone else is offended that’s their problem.</p>
<p>“^^Is it asinine for a student headed for Harvard to wear the sweatshirt of another college? Because it was comfortsble, my daughter commonly wore her Berkeley sweatshirt even though she was headed for Harvard. Nobody seemed to mind.”</p>
<p>Yes, it is.</p>
<p>I can understand. If one drops 75 dollars on a sweatshirt that’s quite comfortable, one’s going to take advantage of it.</p>
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<p>No it isn’t. People wear local public uni gear all the time, regardless of whether they have any connection with it besides watching the team on TV sometimes. I’ve never heard of anyone looking askance at that.</p>
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<p>Note also that only two of the Harvard students in that picture are wearing clothes with a college’s name on them, and the OTHER one looks a lot like it says “Michigan”.</p>
<p>By the way, Browniebaker’s rule is certainly not universal, but it describes the behavior of my family and friends, pretty much. I very rarely see Harvard or Yale logo gear off the respective campuses. My wife had a Yale hoodie that she loved and wore around occasionally, but it has been replaced by a University of Chicago one. I don’t think I have ever owned an item of clothing that said “Yale” on it. I used to wear my 'Brook Tang t-shirt some, before I, um, outgrew it, and we have a Saybrook College decal on a car. I have dozens of relatives who are Harvard alumni, and I don’t think I have ever seen one of them wearing Harvard gear.</p>
<p>Back in the day, J. Press used to do special rep ties for some (maybe all?) of the Yale residential colleges. They didn’t involve the colleges’ colors, or seals, or anything that might identify the connection with Yale or a particular residential college to any outsider. Just a particular color combination and striping pattern (both ugly, generally) that would mean something only to those already in the know. That was the ideal! (The Saybrook tie, if I remember correctly, was mainly maroon and silver, with some third color that screwed up what might otherwise have been modestly attractive.)</p>
<p>EDIT: The tradition remains at least somewhat alive: <a href=“http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_01/lastlook120.html[/url]”>http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_01/lastlook120.html</a></p>
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<p>She didn’t spend anything for it. It was given to her by a friend of the family who was trying to inspire a little Berkeley love and convince her to go. She wore it just because she liked it, and no one (except you) thought it was asinine.</p>
<p>Wear it and flaunt it. Act supercilious. Be an orgulous ■■■■.
Doo-wop that thing.</p>
<p>Hey Number1HSSinUSA, what’s the number one high school in USA?</p>
<p>^ He obviously goes to it seeing as he is quite adept in using a thesaurus.</p>
<p>Funny topic. I don’t think I own a single article of clothing with the Harvard insignia or the Harvard name. OTOH, I do have a really nice hoodie embroidered with my house shield and house name. That I wear all the time, but it’s not particularly conspicuous since most people don’t know or care what “Pfoho” is. </p>
<p>Best of both worlds I guess? School/house pride without the d-baggery?</p>
<p>I don’t see any problem with wearing Harvard clothing.</p>
<p>HSS = high school student.</p>
<p>Also, no thesarus. Just a wildly talented brah.</p>
<p>Think the mental LeBron.</p>
<p>WindCloud, that’s something I love about my Veritones gear. :)</p>
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<p>Worrying about whether you should wear a Harvard sweatshirt is wrong on lots of levels. You are going to Harvard, other kids are going to other schools; it’s no more pretentious for you to wear a shirt with the name of your school on it than it is for a HS classmate to wear a shirt with the name of his/her school on it. To think it would be pretentious to wear a Harvard shirt is to infer that going to Harvard is different or better than going to any other school your classmates will be attending.</p>
<p>Also, you would be mistaken in the majority of cases to assume that someone wearing a shirt with a college’s name on it is attending that college. Lots of people wear shirts with the name of a sibling’s or child’s or friend’s school on it, and lots of people wear whatever happens to be their size on the Goodwill or Salvation Army rack.</p>