Fashion Advice
Mel Videto
Want some fashion tips for Spirit Week this year? Well, read up on some of my advice so you can put the spirit in Spirit Week and help support your school!
Fashion Disaster (Monday, October 6th)
Well, this is pretty straight forward. Any colors that don’t match or that you wouldn’t normally wear together is exactly what you want for this day. Take any color from the color wheel and match it up with the color opposite it. This means that they compliments each color. Red, for example, is the opposite of green. Put those together and you get a wacky Christmas look! Or take purple and pair it with yellow for a flashy look. However, you don’t have to wear opposite clothes. If you really want to clash, take two colors on the color wheel that are next to each other and wear them. Examples would be red and pink, orange and yellow, green and blue. Just take anything bright or colorful and wear it!
Textures and patterns can also screw up your outfit (on purpose, of course). Ladies, you can take a burnout-textured shirt and match it with striped leggings or cardigan. Or take plaid and put that on top of your favorite patterned leggings. I think that layers work well and can work with any look that you want to go with. Here, we want a disaster. Perhaps throw in a cardigan or vest over an already crazy look. Guys, maybe you want to wear man leggings under your favorite shorts? Or perhaps wear a long sleeve under a short sleeve or muscle tank? Or hike you socks up over your shorts? Anything crazy is acceptable!
Let’s talk pants. For the girls (or guys if you wish), feel free to go all-out with the crazy leggings and match it with a patterned shirt. Or even wear shorts with any kind of leggings under them for layered look. Dawn the necklaces and heavy jewelry! Get out those crazy high knee socks and put them over jeans! The crazier you look, the better. Remember to put the disaster in fashion disaster!
Twin Day (Tuesday, October 7th)
For twin day, you obviously want to find a person or two to match with. While you can plan on just wearing the same jeans and perhaps a shirt that you both happen to have, why not consider dressing it up a little bit? We can take fragments of advice from fashion disaster day to make your outfit more tasteful and exciting. Why not go with matching knee socks or leggings? Feel free to swap a shoe so you and your partner can go around school with one flip flop and one Ugg boot each. Remember, twin day doesn’t have to be just about matching, you can dress it up!
Patriot Day (Wednesday, October 8th)
Okay, we all know what this means. Dawn your red, white, and blue clothing! For some people, wearing red and white tops with regular old blue jeans is enough, but for those of you who want to show more school spirit, there is a lot more that you can do. You could paint your nails American colors or even make you eye shadow red, white, or blue! Find a shirt with our flag on it or if you have a belt, necklace, bracelet, or even sticker, wear it for Patriot Day!
#Throwback Thursday (Thursday, October 9th)
For this day, you can dress as someone from any past decade. You can do anything from the 20s to 90s! Or even from way before! Use this day to dress as extravagantly as you wish. Dig out those old leg warmers or don the rainbow colors. Don’t hold back - throw it all back to last Thursday, whether that’s from last week or last century!
Bleed Blue (Friday, October 10th)
We can all guess what we should wear for this day, but some people may just decide to wear jeans. While that’s enough, you can also layer the blue with some more blue! Paint the nails blue or wear blue socks. Any blue jewelry works as well. Or, since this blue day is mostly to represent our school, why not match it up with some white? White tank top with a blue cardigan? Or just have your whole outfit be blue! Aspire to look like a blueberry!
Have fun dressing up!
