By Kevin Sears
3,000 students, 3,000 outfits, aesthetics and choices. Four Barons give us a glimpse into what it is like to dress at school. All photos by Katelynn Luu.
Junior Serene Moreno’s style changes on the daily. She is proud of that fact and often dresses up in a ‘feminine’ or ‘mask’ look.
Upon each ring finger, she wears a ring: “one of them is my grandmother’s ring which I adore and cherish every day. My other ring I won at a State Fair,” Moreno said.
On her wrists are little friendship bracelets that her friends have given her and “a hair tie because you always need a hair tie.” Moreno decides her outfits the night before, and today’s outfit consisted of a necklace, her jewelry, a croquette top and blue bell bottom jeans.
When asked about her aesthetic, junior Ashley Zabala said, “…honestly, [it] changes every day, but my friends always say that I have a Tumblr 2016 aesthetic.”
She wears supper ripped jeans, a ripped Angle’s t-shirt, a gold necklace, orange hair and bracelets. She likes the Angels and has owned the shirt for a long time, often wearing it to bed. When asked about how much effort she places into her outfit, she gave herself a 7/10, with her outfits changing according to the weather.
Hayden Nguyen describes himself as a “comfy type of person who can wear pajamas every day if [he] wants to.” He believes you can have a comfortable life without variety. Upon his wrists he wears two mementos, a bracelet from a friend when they went to Irvine Spectrum and a bracelet from his karate instructor who went to Ireland for a karate camp. His outfit consists of Levi jeans, Nike shoes bought online, a shirt he found in his car and blue hair.
“I would say dress the way that you want. It’s high school … No one really cares if you dress comfy or, like, out-dress everyone else [because] high school is to experiment what you want [and] what you want your life to be,” Nguyen said as a final statement about style.
