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Australian schools tend to utilize and enforce school uniforms, so I can't really say one way or the other whether wearing formal dress to school will make you look like a total prat. If most people are Wearing sweatpants though, then it'll come off as a bit pretty at first.

But if it's a look you want, then go for it. Just expect a bit of a settling in period. Hell, it might even catch on as a look.

dressing-up is overrated.
be a slob

I dress so I look good, but a suit and tie man? C'mon, that's trying too hard.
Get some creativity, I bet I put together outfits that look better than your shit on a daily.

ha i love school

Sweet, you dressed up for public school. You're the man, man!

When I was in high school, a few of my friends did "Suit Mondays," similarly, in university, people did "Fedora Fridays," which I actually participated in.

If you make it an event, it makes you seem more cool and less like a nutjob.

I'm with you cootie. I had to wear a suite to one of my college classes though, "Professional Fridays". I looked like a slick fucker and afterwards I could go to the bar and undo my tie and look like a boss.

I'd like to dress well too, but I don't really have any fancy clothes. Its winter anyway, its too cold for that shit. That, and all the pretentious speech and debate kids wear their suits and such every now and then, and I wouldn't want to be lumped with them.

Meh, a t-shirt and long shorts.

"It's cold out!!!!"

Who gives a shit?

I wear what's comfortable.

I like to dress well, but since I live in the USA I feel like wearing what I used to wear in Germany is overdone compared to the jeans and hoodies that American girls wear everyday.
Back at home you couldn't leave the house wearing sweatpants; in America people go to Walmart in their pajamas... Different culture, I guess. It's kind of sad.

Anyone that wears a suit to school when they aren't required looks like a fucking tool.

At 12/5/11 01:16 AM, Taraa wrote: I like to dress well, but since I live in the USA I feel like wearing what I used to wear in Germany is overdone compared to the jeans and hoodies that American girls wear everyday.
Back at home you couldn't leave the house wearing sweatpants; in America people go to Walmart in their pajamas... Different culture, I guess. It's kind of sad.

How is that sad?

In school, it has the bad side effect of making you look preppy/snobbish. In real life(and trust me when I say HS is NOT real life), it gives you the appearance of professionalism, and class. There is a difference between dressing nice, and over-dressing, though.

Business-casual is my own personal style, and it works rather well. I guess it can make you look like a yuppy, tho. People also assume you have more money than you actually do. Clothes are like skin, they create personality, and everyone will get a certain perception of you, when you dress a certain way.

It has pros and cons. Pros are that everyone assumes you have more class/intelligence than them. Cons are that some people might hate yuppy/assume you're a certain way. It also depends on your environment.

You obviously don't go to a metal concert looking like a yuppy. You don't go to a job interview with long t-shirt, baggy ass jeans, and dressed all in black, with neck tattoos and/or piercings, either.

That being said, clothes are a useful tool and they create personality. How you dress is a reflection of who you really are, to most people, because they ALL judge a book by it's cover. Everyone.

So, use this to your advantage and remember that most people are shallow, and stupid, and can be exploited based on their pre-concieved notions of you.

And when you act different than what your clothing says about you, it pisses people off. Just be aware of that.

At 12/4/11 10:32 PM, Mason wrote: I'm with you cootie. I had to wear a suite to one of my college classes though, "Professional Fridays". I looked like a slick fucker and afterwards I could go to the bar and undo my tie and look like a boss.

This. This right here. Going to bar in a shirt and tie with a nice pair of pants and a snappy belt on is definitely one way of catching the ladies attention.

Before my sixth form introduced a dress code I just wore a t-shirt and jeans. I'm not trying to impress anybody. But now I wear a black shirt, pants and jacket. Not bad I guess but i'd rather be in casual clothing.

I love wearing a suit for random occasions, but I would never do so to go to school.

I changed my mind. Do it. Make it your thing.

i wear sandals, a red T-Shirt. and normal shorts. why? cause its fucking hot here

T-shirt (usually gray, but also in black & blue) and dark color jeans (with the except of my light blue jeans). I have a red polo shirt I wear sometimes with my jeans, if I'm feeling spiffy.

I hardly ever get dressed up, to be perfectly honest.

I feel your pain.

I like to wear sweaters over dress shirts with the sleeves rolled up with jeans because I think I look really good in them, but I feel like a douchebag because most of my school is made up of people from lower class neighborhoods. I don't want people to think i'm some pretentious rich kid.

We rank events. Formal events such as an award ceremony are prestigious enough for us to dress very nicely. Casual events such as a normal day of school, which occurs five times a week, would warrant casual or lazy clothing. If you wear semi-formal clothing on a normal day of school, how are you going to honor a more professional event like a job interview or a wedding? A $3500 tuxedo? Or are you going to treat these events like it's a normal day of school and dress semi-formally?

Welp. That's just a weird way I think of things. I'll agree with the others here to try to make the 'in' thing to do is dress formally on certain days of the week/month, so you won't look like you're out of place.

I'm usually in too much of a rush to put all that much thought into what I'm wearing, but I do try to look nice I guess. I also sometimes almost unconsciously color-coordinate, but that probably has more to do with OCD than fashion sense.

I can't really imagine ever going to class in a suit and tie, though.

Yes you are. I have no money for clothes so my regular apparel is a choice of six shirts (khaki, olive drab, darker olive drab, slate grey, black, or white), jeans, and boots. I like my style.

My friend is fresh daily, cardigans, polos, im surprised he isnt wearing suits and stuff. I would if i could pull the look off, but im more focused on my grades and stuff than dressing up, so its mostly athletic shorts and baha shorts (I think thats the name), Zoo York and Young and Reckless tees, and some converse's.
But yea, women this year are being super lazy, they just look...trashy. It looks like they never take showers and shit, its gross. At least wear sweats once a week or something, not daily. Last year it wasnt like this.

I always dress for the occasion. "me on the left"

I don't even own any dress clothes, so dressing up isn't even an option for me.

Sometimes I wear brands like American Eagle or AC and Fitch, but never anything fancier than that.

At 12/5/11 09:38 PM, HayBayBee wrote: I always dress fuckin' nice, and as of recently I've been having my hair on it's A-game and my make-up too.

Nice too meet you. I like your A-Game ;)