It’s not a secret that us Exeter girls are sartorially attuned. While we sometimes get lazy with our wardrobe choices – Barbour, converse and Longchamp bag at the ready ladies? – HCX have noticed a new craze popping up on campus: the craze for distinctly uncomfortable fashion choices. Here’s our top 5 spots revealing the new culture of uncomfortable campus clothing aka the modern day equivalent of the corset:
- Heels
So we’re genuinely curious about how SO many of you can bear to wear heels on campus, let alone walking to and from campus? Don’t get us wrong, they look great. These leg elongating power tools are the supermen of shoes. But whether you live on Longbrook Street or Springfield, your day will involve hills and we can’t help but wonder how you’re facing those hills in heels. Hefty amount of these at hand or not, hats off to you heroic ladies.
- Tank tops
Aka the female equivalent of boys wearing flip-flops onto campus – you’re going to be cold. For the majority of the day. It may be March and there may be intermittent days of birds singing and the mild possibility of getting our RDA of vitamin D but girls, please invest in either sleeves or a cardigan. We’re cold just looking at you.
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- Tiny bags
So Shakespeare said something about eyes being the window to the soul and that’s cute and romantic but ultimately wrong. Bags are the window to the soul. The female soul anyway. It’s not just what’s in our handbag but what handbag we have that says a huge amount about us. And a large number of you use extraordinarily miniscule bags on campus. Again, they look great. But is the ability to you know, be a student, inhibited by being able to fit your keys, a phone, a loose fiver and absolutely nothing else in your bag? In this sartorial scenario, make like the majority and invest in a Longchamp, the Mary Poppins bag that will fit everything you need in it and more for a day on campus.
- Jumpers
So we may have just highlighted tank tops as an uncomfy choice on a campus where the climate is still promising snow but just as uncomfy is being stuck in a jumper all day without anything underneath it. If like one member of HCX last week you woke up to a grey and rainy day so just put your bra on underneath your jumper, only to see the sun come out at 12 and be stuck sweltering on campus, you’re one of many to make this painful mistake. You could be forgiven for assuming the sun wouldn’t appear but never forget the hills. You’re always going to be over heating when you get to Peter Chalk.
- Statement jewelry
This is in no way a discouragement to wear it, we more want to congratulate those of you strong enough to wear some of the statement jewelry we’ve seen recently. We mean physically strong enough: from necklaces that must way a good couple of pounds to armfuls/fingerfuls of bracelets and rings, we’ve seen some incredible accessories (earring envy in particular). If you can hack it for the whole day, hats off to you.
We don’t want you to stop making these bold fashion choices. They (tend to) look great. HCX is just curious as to how many of you are willing to tackle neck ache, blisters and actually quite painful body temperatures to complete your campus look. Congrats!
Photocredits: elleuk; beat102103.co.uk; posters.ws; moreorless-dany