Who Are You?

[VelvetClover]

When I was a teenager (which wasn't that long ago!) I went through "stages" I guess. I was sort of grungy through most of it. Now I wear mainly dresses with belts and lots of jewellry and big hair lol I have no idea what to catergorise myself as now really.

The secondary school I went to was quite insular - there were only about 300 kids in it and most of them lived in the same area so everybody knew each other/knew each others families and stuff, there wasn't really much pressure on what you wore. A long as you washed and had clean clothes everyone was pretty accepting of you whatever you wore really lol which was nice. I used to wear some pretty wacky stuff looking back - probably to shock and stand out. I'm not so much of an extrovert now.

It's a shame there's so much pressure on teens to fit into some sort of catergory or group, but I guess that's just the way things are.

[CJW93]

I am a mixture of most of those groups.

i wear tracksuit bottoms with football shirts and trainers, but the next day I will be seen in skinny jeans and those tops from topman with the shortish sleeves (looks like baseball shirts) and pimsoles. I also listen to near enough every genre of music, apart from classical

[buttons]

LOL i've never seen anyone dress like that.

I think it tends to be an American thing

[Caution]

suppose, but I lol'd.

[camera]

class clown tbh. people are sometimes intimidated by me i think coz im sarcastic :S
but if i had to choose any, till probs be abit of everything

[The Professor]

When you hit the older years, like Year 11+, these stereotypes don't tend to matter anymore. I could be stood there in skinny jeans with my fringe next to a guy in trackies and still get on really well.

Yeah I've certainly noticed the difference in attitude between secondary school and 6th form. All the chavs and emos and everything tend to get on far better now.

They're still chavs and emos though, whatever anyone says. You don't end up wearing exactly the same black eyeliner or burberry as everyone else be pure coincidence. People purposely copy each other to keep up with what they think is fashionable and that puts them in a group. Its not necessarily a bad thing, just a fact of life.

[FlyingJesus]

Do we need to class peoples?

Yes. Humans are not naturally metropolitan multicultural creatures, but we're not solitary either. We're tribal, which is why we put ourselves in groups and identify each other through our fashions and mannerisms. Subcultures exist because we as a race have become too large and have outgrown what we're comfortable with being a part of

[RedStratocas]

I haven't believed in prep groups for years, I don't think I ever saw the movie either!

prep is more of an american thing. and that's not really the most accurate picture that i posted, nowadays what is considered "preppy" is 90$ ripped jeans, constant sandles, dyed blonde streak hair (even for guys) and only shirts that have "hollister" "abercrombie & fitch" or "american eagle" in huge letters.

[FlyingJesus]

Over the last three days I have worn (in order) Hollister, Abercrombie&Fitch and American Eagle shirts lmao STRUT and my Levis aren't that ripped

[Japan]

In my school you're either a plastic, nerd, perv or me.