Dressing presentable

Going to parochial school all my life, I never had the opportunity to dress up for school.

When I came to Cabrini last year, I made the promise to myself that I would get dressed up for class every single day. I never had class before 10:55 a.m. so I did not think that would be a problem.

One day, I decided to dress in comfortable sweatpants and wear my hair up because it was cold outside. In my first class my teacher said, “You look….different.”

This was the first time I ever felt like, “Wow. Maybe I should actually get dressed for class. After that I continued to dress up for class, usually in just jeans and a nice sweater, nothing too fancy.

Then second semester rolled around and it was still bitterly cold out. I was then entering into the wonderful world of having an early morning class. I had ISTat 9:35 a.m. Being that it was cold Friday morning class, there was no way on God’ earth that I would be getting dressed for class in anything other than sweats.

By the end of the year I found that I was feeling sorry for myself and that I did not feel presentable. So once again I vowed to myself that I would dress decently for class.

When I say getting dressed for class “decently,” I do not mean wearing my stilettos and a prom dress. I am simply attempting to