Fall Fashion: Columbia Struts its Stuff
There’s nothing Columbia students love more than an event they can’t get into. This week’s Obama/McCain event, PrezBo’s periodic fireside chats, and the Heights on just about any Thursday night all come to mind. Fall Fashion Week is about as exclusive as it gets, and that the week’s runway shows and collections have largely gone under Columbia’s radar is more telling of our campus style than it is of the popularity of the event.
This aside, some patterns have emerged:
Little Black Pointy Shoes
Move over Tory Burch. Think of these saddle-shoe inspired booties as a replacement for your trusty flats. They go well paired with black stockings and a skirt for a fancier look or with just shorts or jeans for a more tousled appearance.
Vests
Columbia students have embraced the nonfunctional vest. From the vintage cowboy-inspired vests to the shrunken suit coat vest, most do little in the way of actually providing warmth. But practicality be damned, vests are key ensemble pieces this fall.
Plaid and Grandaddy Cardigans
There’s no sassier way to rebuke the preppy back-to-school staples (shrunken blazers, popped oxford collar) than to wear a crumpled lumberjack print and your Gramps’ oversized Izod cardigan. Moth holes welcomed.
Backpacks
They’re finally in again, if they were ever out… This fall, students have been seen sporting beaten up Jansports, Eastpacks and the like. Top pick goes to the jumbo L.L. Bean monogrammed packs, circa 1993.
Tags: autumn, fashion, shoes
13 September 2008 @ 8:05 PM · 24 comments
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i got the L.L. Bean covered.
makes a good ‘pack
They really should have fashion week tickets for CU students…
ostensibly they do- the spec style section purports to cover fashion week every season
its like a woody allen recreation event
you’re marty mcfly or working in iraq, a vest is never a wise choice
It would be nice to see less beards. This isn’t a pirate ship. And less emaciated types. Again, this isn’t a pirate ship.
That’s not what the RIAA be thinkin’.
I be roundin’ up a crew of scurvy sea dogs to rape, pillage, and plunder the HMS RIAA. Who be with me, mateys?
fewer beards. and fewer emaciated types. i wish somebody else would figure out the less/fewer rule and inform the rest of the world so i didn’t have too…
“so i didn’t have too…”
EPIC FAIL
PWND
on that note, maybe you should learn the difference between to and too
Countable vs. Uncountable Nouns. If you can count it: Fewer
If you cant: Less
On the beard question: sometimes at Columbia I simply don’t have time to shave in the morning and I start looking like I have a beard after two days. Fashion takes a back seat to practicality at college and if you disagree you are doing it wrong.
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable we have to alter it every six months.” Oscar Wilde
I remember coming here as a fresh-faced freshman ready to walk that metrosexual line of being fashionable at every occasion, creating some sort of allure.
Cut to two months later where Im walking down the streets in a stained t-shirt and sweatpants.
all of these outfits are hideous!
way to take a screenshot of the picture of the ginger after having selected the area already. the little circles are cute.
African-American Boycott of L.L. Bean Enters 80th Year
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/african_american_boycott_of_l_l
those strappy leather sandals are all over the place, if thats not fashion then i dont know what is
those are called Gladiator Sandals.
who made this post?
you do not MAKE posts.
you fucking POST.
just like you do not MAKE A SHIT.
you SHIT.
jesus.
so athena bound on the fair sandals…
Check out the leg sticking out of the bag in the second-to-bottom picture. Girl is carrying around a dead body, all friggin’ casual-like.
trying to be the sartorialist?