The students at Waterford High School have a variety of styles. Many factors influence what students wear on a day-to-day basis, such as the time of the year, the season, and the sports they play.
Teenagers’ viewpoints vary depending on what is trending at the time. Though in high school, kids often dress more comfortably or in some cases still try to have the motivation to dress cute throughout the year.
Sophomore Hannah Hall says, “Dressing more comfortably reduces my distraction, because I’m not worried about what is going on with my outfit. When I have the motivation to dress up I am more uncomfortable and that causes me to be worried about my outfit more than my learning.”
After the first few weeks of school tends to be the most drastic change in students’ outfits because of their amount of motivation.
Hall says, “I try to dress cute throughout the year, but I am way more motivated to do so in the beginning of the year. Towards the middle it becomes more of a struggle to try to dress up for school, although I end up looking cuter.”
Sophomore Thomas Flanagan agrees, “It is definitely easier to dress up towards that beginning of the year, because I care more about my style and what people think about the things I wear. Then I just give up because I don’t care anymore.”
Freshman Griffin Haffey disagrees. “I dress similarly through the whole year to try to stay consistent. I enjoy dressing up more stylish instead of comfy or sporty because I think it’s cool to have some style, since mostly everyone is basic and doesn’t try.”
Sophomore Chloe Landry agrees with Flanagan, “I have so much more motivation during the beginning of the year, the beginning of the year I have more motivation to actually present myself with a cute outfit. Though sometimes during the middle or end of the year I try looking cute, but I always end up regretting it because I want to be comfy.”
The most noticeable outfits are when a sports team wears their jerseys or any matching group outfit to school for a game-day.
These group outfits may include wearing jerseys, dressing up, or wearing a grout-fit, which is wearing all gray. There are multiple game-day variations that teams come up with, which end up affecting their daily attire.
If a student has three games a week this sort of thing definitely affects their day-to-day.
Landry says, “The themes we have to follow on game-days mess with how I would like to dress, but they do also make it easier because I don’t have to pick an outfit.”
Junior Colby Sheehan expresses in simpler words, “Yeah we have to wear our jerseys on game days, but it doesn’t affect my day to day, I don’t really care.”
When it comes to different grades the majority of the student body believes that the grades dress the same.
Griffin Haffey states, “I don’t quite think grades dress differently, as everyone seems to wear the same thing, like sweatpants and sweatshirts.”
Though Haffey is only a freshman, upperclassmen seem to have the same opinion as him. Sheehan agrees, “Everyone dresses the same, it doesn’t matter what grade you’re in.”
Within the school community, it seems like there is a pattern: most dress the same, some fashion a comfy-cute style sometimes, and sports do affect most students’ day-to-day.
