Breaking Boundaries

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by Fiona Flynn, Reporter How today’s generation has sparked their own confidence through the means of fashion

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IndiviDuality can easily be argued as one of the most powerful sources of Confidence and self definition. As we advance as a society into a rapidly changing, and equally as colorful culture, we grow more diverse as people. Such transitions have been represented strongly in the veins of society’s youth, their voices rising beyond the crowds of a systematic patriarchal society, not only as battle cries, music, and the media, but in the clothing that decorates their body.

The biggest emphasis is placed on confidence and Comfort in your style, the unspoken motto and agreement that you are dressing for yourself and no one else. You simply appeal to your own eye.

“To express yourself through clothing is like a social event now for me and my friends, like thrifting. It doesn’t matter what’s attractive or cute, it’s just what you feel comfortable in, what you think is Appealing to your eye...” said Wright.

Though Liberty’s dress code is still ever present, the student body has found their way to express themselves as Individuals in every which way, whether their goal be for social acceptance, friends, or solely for the purpose of self validation and expression.

“I use my style to express myself because I have a very Colorful personality and I have a lot to show to the world, so I have to show it outwardly with my clothes so that people I don’t know can perceive me the way that I want them to perceive me,” stated Wright with a confident grin.

Junior Mia Wikoff has used her style for her own purposes.

“I changed my style probably half way through my freshman year,” Wikoff said. “I wanted to get away from people that I didn’t enjoy being around. I was trying to dress like them to fit in and I decided that I wasn’t going to be friends with them so I could be my Own Person.”

“I like t-shirts with things that I am interested in; music and anime shows,” she said. “It makes me feel more comfortable. I have better days whenever I am wearing something that I am more confident in. It brought confidence.”

Fashion doesn’t make the person, the person creates the fashion, a reflection of self introspection and affirmation. Standards stand no chance against those who use the Powerhouse of confidence to break all boundaries.