Dear BC Dress Code,
I must admit that I am a little hypocritical. I love being able to walk around this campus and see everyone looking so put together. The boys dressed to the nines in the Vineyard Vines, J. Crew, Patagonia, Timberland boots, and Sperrys. The girls clad in essentially the same thing with Hunter boots, Lily Pulitzer and Jack Rogers thrown in the mix during the spring. When we walk around this campus, it can sometimes feel like everyone is the same; everyone has the same personality and style. We might as well be walking into a J. Crew catalog! We have the competitive nature in the classroom and it seeps into how we dress as well!
The only key difference in outfits can be located on the right chest of a Patagonia. Threaded in maroon or black is the name of the club, organization or team on campus that the person is a member of. Even on game days you make it so everyone is in his or her gold Superfan shirts or something maroon that says Boston College in large letters! There is no escape of your grasp!
Why is it that the athletes are exempt from your strong grasp on the rest of the student body. You tell us that they are the only ones allowed to rock the groutfit and rock the baggy sweatpants, oversized sweatshirt and sneakers to class. I want to be that comfortable, too!!
What happened to the days of when you overslept and you could just throw on a pair of baggy sweatpants with a tank top and jacket and call it a day? Why have you made that an impossiblity for us on the BC campus? I’m tired of having to jump and shimmy my way into a pair of jeans, throw on one of my J. Crew sweaters, make the tedious decision of chunky necklace or scarf, throw on my Frye boots, find a way to apply my make up as quickly as possible and run to class. To be honest, I just want to wear a lax pinnie and shorts to class without being judged.
Because of you, BC dress code, I no longer have the ability to roll out of bed and make the last minute decision of “Do I wear yoga pants or pajama pants?” The answer is always going to be yoga pants. There is no escape from your clutch on this campus!
I am not going to follow you. You will not be the little voice in my ear saying, “Are you sure you want to wear that?” My answer is yes. Yes, I do want to wear my hair in a messy bun with my plaid pajama bottoms, which were a hand-me down from my brother, an oversized t-shirt and my sneakers. Yes, I do want to wear my lax pinnie with yoga pants and my rain boots. So I will not be constrained by your grasp of creating a sea of Michael Kors, Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, North Face, Tory Burch, Vineyard Vines. I will wear what I want! … but only when going to get food from Lower.
As much as I hate following the “dress code,” I love it at the same time. I like to be able to walk around this campus and feel like everything is where it should be. Stylish doesn’t have to mean uncomfortable and let’s be honest, BC is a preppy school, wearing anything such as PJs to class would take away from the atmosphere on this campus.
Photo Sources:
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