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Fashion, the hit topic of every Spring.
Students like Lily Vu, who wants to become a pharmacist, and Cat Nguyen, who has not yet decided upon her major, believe that fashion is a way to show their personality and express who they are individually.
“Just like most schools and anywhere else, we care about how we look. We have some that are very fashionable, and some that are not,” Nguyen said.
A business major, Diana Jurado, thinks that possibly the ones that are not fashionable most likely just do not care.
“Everybody rolls out of bed and comes to school,” Jurado said. “I mean, fashion is important, but it depends what youre doing.”
Esther Ucheoma, architecture major, agrees with Jurado.
“It depends on what time of the day you have class,” Ucheoma said. “If its in the morning, most likely you don’t care how you look. At that point, your main concern is getting to class on time.”
Society salivates over famous entertainers and the styles they bring to the table. This past spring, the Bohemian look, inspired by gypsies, ethnic patterns and the Hippie 70s, had been the trend.
“The Bohemian look is going to be gone,” Nguyen said. “I dont think that people dig that look, only celebs.”
Looking back through the years, fashion now is not any different than fashion then.
“It’s like everything is recycled,” Ucheoma said.
A portion of students agree that trends from the 60s to the present are represented throughout the campus.
“We’re taking a lot of the styles from the past and trying to make it look more trendy,” Vu said.
In the 60s, bell-bottomed pants, shorts, culottes and patterned clothing were hot. Bell-bottomed pants and shirts that exposed the mid-drift area came from this era.
“Bell-bottoms will live forever, but my government teacher told me about a bill trying to be passed in Congress that limits the amount of exposure of different body parts,” Ucheoma said.
Yes, there are those who would pass laws against fashion.
People who wear low-slung pants exposing skin or intimate clothing could face a fine of up to $500 and possible jail time under a bill filed by a Jefferson Parish lawmaker, the Associated Press reported.
The 80s was the biggest decade in fashion with fedora hats, mini skirts, denim jackets, Louis Vuitton or Gucci doctor bags/purses, long necklaces, and jeans with holes.
“I see more guys wearing hats, including fedora hats, like the Michael Jackson ones,” Nguyen said. “I dont see most of them pulling it off, though.”
Sanchez disagrees with Nguyen, as long as men follow the rules.
“For guys, the proper way to wear a hat is backward and cocked to the side a bit, never forward,” Sanchez said.
When the leggings broke out in the 90s, these fashion trends of the majority of the student body’s childhood days quickly carried itself into the new millennium, 2006. Now, students have lots to say of what they think is coming back into style.
“I think the model look is coming back, like big heels and big hair from the 60s,” said Blessing Eno, who wishes to be a pharmacist.
Apparently, the common prediction is looking like a Hippie and going big this year.
“Orange will be the new color, Nguyen said. “They’re bringing back the Hippie look with long, wrinkled skirts. I think the 90s are coming back, too, because girls are wearing tights.”
Magazines and superstars are sporting opinions to show some knee and supersize it with an extra large tote.
Fashion has come to present itself as a sexist topic, focusing most of its time on women, rather than men. There seems to be an underground assumption of what fashion sense men are to abide by, or is there?
“Most guys around here don’t have fashion,” said Spencer Fauber, a business major.
“Well, they have fashion, just messed up fashion.”
Nguyen agreed when she announced, “Popping the collar is out! It’s been out about 5 years ago! It should have never been in.”
Men seem to think that popping the collar is still fashionable.
“I pop the collar with business attire,” said Xavier Sanchez, Religious studies major.
“Then again, I wear hats with suits. I think its the hip-hop look.”
Fauber does not agree with Sanchez.
“I think popping the collar might be the middle school thing,” Fauber said.
Altogether, fashion is a sense women carry in their nature to love, as men just go with the flow and enjoy the eye candy.
Its just more attractive for women to be into fashion,” Fauber said. “You don’t want to see a girl who didn’t do her hair, and it’s greasy. I didn’t do my hair today. Guys can get away with it. Yes, I’m kind of picky about what I wear. I don’t just throw on free T-shirts from everywhere; however, I don’t think I’m as bad as a girl.”
For women, their fashion goes to waste without the opinion of men like Sanchez, when he said, “I think its important for girls to have fashion, not only to be hot, but to be girls. “ | 
