It seems to me, and I'm definitely not the first person to observe this that high school is divided by clothing styles. This is disturbing, especially when you attend an art school which is intended to be a mecca and hub of creativity, that breaks free of the mould of a conventional institution.
I'm not really in one particular group, I am a floater, although I have a main group of friends that I generally go to shows with, party with, etc, but at the same time my best friend is very much separate from them, physically and mentally.
Just the other day I received a comment about my jacket, a baggy denim plaid fleece lined creation with a waist drawstring. I got the jacket at Value Village for just five dollars, and I like it. The comment made, was by an acquaintance who used to be a close friend, accusing me of being trendy. The comment in itself didn't bother be, except that the girl it seemed, thought she was somehow less trendy than I. I had news for her, which I gladly shared. She is a punk, which is trendy, a Mohawk is not anymore creative than my jacket. We are all trendy, anything that any of us is doing has been done before, or has been inspired by something that someone somewhere has done before, which doesn't make your thoughts and ideas any less valuable, just unifying. I was physically wearing clothing that had been worn before, of course I knew I wasn't original, and it strikes me as odd that someone wearing a concept worn first by a Native tribe and then by thousands of punks would fail to recognize that they are not anymore creative than I.
However, all of that said, I thoroughly respect punk culture, just like any other culture a lot of interesting ideas and music was either developed or popularized by it.
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