Some people like to hide in plain site. Even though they are different people, they wear the same clothes as everyone else so they fit in with their own crowd. If you look around New Trier, jeans are the 'uniform' for guys and girls. Both wear skinny jeans, baggy jeans, tight jeans, jeans with holes, low hanging jeans, colored jeans, designer jeans, western jeans, any kind of jeans. By wearing this uniform, they are expressing who they are as well as blending in with everyone else.
Students wear jeans to make sure they fit into a certain crowd. They don't want to be embarrased because they are wearing something different than their friends. Different groups tend to wear different jeans. For example, the athletes mostly wear baggy jeans with holes. Each individual athlete wants to feel special but they also want to identify with the other athletes. They wear similar clothes to make sure that they don't feel embarrased.
Another type of jeans that are popular are low-riding jeans. Students
who wear low hanging jeans are representing their ‘hood’. They wear low-riding jeans because back in
the 1990’s, rap became big and popular rappers like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
wore these types of jeans. In fact, not
only has rap carried on into the 21st century, but so have the jeans. Just like the athletes, these people want to be special in their own way, except they wear the same clothes as their friends to make sure they don't feel left out.
Another
pair of jeans that are popular in my school is casual jeans. Casual jeans are loose, traditional blue
color, no holes or frays, and U-shaped (for comfort). I like to wear these types of jeans because
it looks respectable, it doesn’t stand out, and it feels great. Obviously other students like these jeans because
they feel good, but they just want to fit in with everyone else as well.
When
Fussell says: “everyone must wear a uniform, but everyone must deny wearing
one,” he isn’t simply contradicting his own point. What he is saying is that everyone wants to
feel special, but everyone wants to make sure that they fit in with the people who are important in his/her life. Fussell's quote also applies to the New Trier student wearing jeans as a way to be different and the same at the same time.
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