Journal #16

Most people tend to stay with the social 'norm' when it come to clothing choice.  Most people wear their Victoria's Secret name brand, their Uggs, or Vera Bradley.  The guys stick to Jordan, Nike, Polo, etc.  It's not that people don't necessarily want to get away from the social 'norm', I think a lot of people just struggle to think for themselves.  There's of course all the people who do indeed want to be just like everyone else and never stray from society's idea of 'okay'.  There are of course a few people who are able to think for themselves and like doing their own thing.  There is a girl who no longer attends here, but when she did it was very evident that she had an extremely strong sense of style and fashion.  Everyday she would show up in something different and completely unlike anything anyone else had on.  Her hair was also always very different as well.  She dyed it differently from anyway anyone else would and would style it in unique ways that other girls had never even considered.  Peoples reaction would always differ from the next.  Some people would think that it was crazy and to weird.  They wouldn't understand why she would ever stray from social normality.  They were the people that can't think outside of the box, who only ever wore or acted like or did what someone else had already deemed was cool.  Then you had other people that had the up most respects for this girl for her ability to think outside of the box.  Some of us don't even recognize that they have this little box and that they never even leave it.  So when someone, like this girl, shows them what it is like to get out of this box, it is very interesting and received well.  She would wear dressed and cardigans and high socks and unique shoes that a lot of us didn't even know existed or would ever be though to put together.