Fashion on the flipside

DIANA ASHJIAN STAFF WRITER DA725@CABRINI EDU

Surely, “Vogue” is not what most students follow as a guide to dress for success when the occasion includes a calculus class or a Spanish class. There has always been a time and place for everything. So, when Friday comes it’s nice to finally shut the sweat-pant drawers and resort to a closet that promises to provide some eagerly-awaited fun accompanied with a “Cosmopolitan” that will show you the ropes on how to stay sparkly. But, have you ever wondered what your fashion tastes reflect?

Reassuringly, this season has left midriff-revealing, low-rider pants-sporting, hormonecrazed-pop stars, like Britney Spears for the “fashionably doomed” sections in magazines everywhere and has finally left room for the polished, disgruntled and self-absorbed American girl.

Glittery knits articulate our hopes to understand a world of ideals at war while tweed encourages us to remain loyal, conservative and maybe even apathetic. If you combine the two with a pair of classic Levis, disheveled hair that screams, “love me and leave me alone” and a pair of rounded-toe heels that console an ignorant bliss, you could be a poster girl for the typical, yet, stylish young adult.

will secure your femininity safely from the tension and pressure of never having enough, as much as it will keep you delicately blind to the countless people, not too many miles away, who don’t own a warm coat, let alone know of any Italian designers.

Silly me! Did I forget to suggest accessories?

Louis Vuitton’s leather messenger bag can be carried with jeans distinguishably as well as emptily. The books inside can provide knowledge, but true insight is found in knowing that you have to work and not the leisure of it.

Aleopard-print Dior bag will keep you purring furiously to and against your desires and your values. This container pledges you’ll want to leap toward self-depravation much sooner than you’ll be inclined to embellish your soul and embrace your graciousness.

Make sure that you purchase the perfect set of pearls to accentuate all of your refinements. The smoothly texturedround balls of superiority will agree to keep all the potential you have to deem the world outside of a magazine “not enough” locked around your neck, so don’t clasp these delicacies too tightly.

I feel that for the sake of America and its future, there needs to be something done for the sake of the people rather than the sake of the corporations. For too long have the people of the United States been controlled by the powers that be instead of the power that rests within themselves. We as a people need to say to the government that reigns over us that enough is enough and that it is time for a change. If things continue the way that they are, we could find ourselves in the midst of a draft or paying over $3.00 dollars a gallon for gas.

The citizens of America need to take control of their democracy because the government has grown too powerful and controlled by those with money and it is causing the middle and lower classes to suffer. Health care costs and gas prices are becoming less affordable everyday. I can’t even begin to describe what it is like to watch my mother sitting at the kitchen table struggling to pay her bills only to tell me that she doesn’t have enough money to pay all of them for that month.

Being a college student, myself, I know financial burden rather well. It was just last week that I paid nearly $30 to fill my car up with gas. To make matters worse, my tuition costs just rose again as well.

An issue that is not widely spoken about in America is social status. I don’t think it’s fair how those in the middle and lower classes are stuck being part of those classes for the rest of their lives. I think there needs to be something done to allow these people to rise in status to become better off than they were before.

How can you tell a child of a middle or lower-class family that they can grow up to be somebody when it has been found that the social class you grow up in is the social class you’ll end up in. I know it is true for my family, and I’m sure it’s the same for yours as well.

I also feel that there needs to be something done to better edu-

Even the earthy brown chiffons from Alexander McQueen try to seduce you onto a textile of sand and surf. Its beauty wraps you in the solidity of abstract neglect to self, but keeps you looking sophisticated, nonetheless.

Roberto Cavalli’s floral silks cate the youth of America. I can’t even begin to count the number of stupid things I have seen and heard over the years. If we better educate our children, we will be able to keep stupid acts and comments from happening.

I also feel that there should be more done in high schools to teach students about their government as well as how they can take part in it. But then again, history textbooks leave out any real useful information anyway.

What we as Americans can do to take back this land that is so rightfully ours is to go to our local polling places and place our vote. Since there is a presidential election in less than a week, it serves as our golden opportuni- ty to actually change America for the better. By placing our ballot on Nov. 2 , we are taking back this majestic land from sea to shining sea. By doing so, we will be helping to right the evil that was unleashed upon us four years ago.

Whether you’re expressing your fashion tastes for your morning classes or sporting around comfortably in sneakers, remember there are much more important things. What we wear is not always as important as what we’re getting dressed for. In a sense, we’re here constructing the uniforms we’ll wear long after graduation. So, let’s put on our helmets and get in the game. Let’s try to find out what really matters. Let’s emphasize what’s internal before we try to articulate what’s external.

What we can also do is to write our congressman and pay close attention to the current legislation that is being discussed within congress. By keeping a basic knowledge of what is going on, Americans will be better informed about their government and it’s actions. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”