Style is a concept that is forever changing. One day something that is accepted could be completely different from the next day. This is our culture. Our culture and style change like the strike of lightening. They are interrelated, and depend on one another. When one changes, the other one usually follows.
When I looked at the 1968 Skipjack, I thought wow this is what women used to look like? The women were dressed in skirts and blouses with short boy-like haircuts. The men were also dressed professionally, wearing suites and dress shoes. I thought that maybe the women used to dress this way for college because they wanted to fit in with the men, seeing as mostly men attended college, so the women wouldn’t stand out. The people in Warhol’s pictures were dressed sort of the same way, but with more of an indie style.
Styles have changed drastically since then. Now, college students don’t dress up at all to go to class. Students wear whatever they want, when they want to wear it. When that issue of the Skipjack was relevant, students used to have to dress up to attend college. If you didn’t you were seen as abnormal or uncool because you didn’t fit in or look professional.
Today’s youth culture doesn’t seem to care about adhering to societies accepted cultural norms. Just look at today’s college students. Students wear what they want, there is no right or wrong thing to wear to class. The same can be said when going out to events. People wear what they want to wear. Today, there are so many different sub-cultures that have different accepted styles in them. For example: the goth style, which has an accepted style of wearing all or mostly all black every day and including jewelry such as chains or dog collars. To me, this is different from how it used to be because kids today care less about rules. It’s seen as “cool” to break away from the norms of society and dress a different way or act a different way that isn’t culturally ideal.
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