Pink Rock Candy – Top fashion trends, news and shopping of 2010

Yesterday, during the rundown of her amazing trip to Las Vegas which included her getting an internship at Seventeen (Congrats hun!), Miss Couturable mentioned the stereotypical trends of high school girls, “Uggs, Northface jackets, Abercrombie camisoles, Tiffany & Co. charm necklaces, and True Religion jeans.” She wanted to know what people thought about them. Many people who left comments admitted to wearing some of the common trends, but not because they were “status symbols,” and it was never more than a couple of the trends worn by any one girl.

Though I’m not in high school anymore, I haven’t been out of it for too long (only 2 years), and from what I can gather the trends are pretty much the same. When I was in high school, the trends were: a North Face fleece jacket, Uggs, HardTail roll-down yoga pants, and Abercrombie/Hollister clothes(optional). We had the whole Tiffany & Co. phase in middle school, but there were still some remains of that trend floating around too.

What do I think of the general trends of high school girls? Buying something because it’s trendy is completely overrated. In high school, the only trend I slightly bought in to was the HardTail trend. This was only because I had to wear black yoga pants for a cheer performance at pep rally, and they weren’t real HardTail pants, they were $15 black yoga pants from Target. All the other trends didn’t fit my personality. I have and always will detest Uggs; they may be the least attractive shoe other than Crocs ever to be created and sold to the masses. North Face fleece jackets never seemed warm enough for the price, so I opted for a great new pea coat each year. I’ve never purchased anything from Abercrombie or Hollister, and I truly doubt I will. I have nothing against people who do, but I think they should know they’re being swindled. As for the Tiffany & Co. trend, in middle school, I bought in to it, that is to say, my parents bought into it. I wore the necklace they bought me from the time I received it to probably sophomore year of high school, and it now sits safely in my jewelry box while I opt to wear the cheapo necklaces I bought from Target, Forever21, and the likes. Was the money my parents spent a waste? I don’t think so, because eventually it will be an heirloom I could give to my grandchildren. Will it cost much in the future? Probably not considering every girl in my grade probably had one, but who knows!

To be more concise, its much harder for high school girls to break away from the clothing norms and try to have their own style. There is so much peer pressure in high school, and stores like Abercrombie will always have that mass appeal. For a girl with little to no income of her own, and little to no knowledge of the fashion industry, Abercrombie, North Face, Uggs, and HardTail are the only designer products they truly know (other than the Louis Vuitton, Coach, and Chanel handbags), and perhaps the world is better for it. What would happen if all girls were intrinsically obsessed with couture, and the newest high school trend was the Black and White Fendi fur coat Kate Moss and Kate Bosworth have been seen wearing? Let’s just hope for my sake, trends stay on the cheap, yet undeniably cultish side with high school girls.

What do you think of the trends high school girls choose to wear, or for that matter, what do you think of trends in general? How many of the high school clothing trends do/did you follow, and how many current trends do you follow now (if not currently in high school)?