Cody+Classification+Essay

This essay was fairly easy to write, and I chose it because I knew much about my topic. I go to Leonardtown High School, so I know who hangs out with who, and how cliques work. Fashion is also a very interesting topic to me, so I pay much attention to what people wear. I felt that this essay gives everyone a sense of what high school is really like today, and how judgemental kids can be. Cliques: What to Wear, What Not to Wear I wear clothes that represent my style and personality. Colorful shirts, usually jeans, flip-flops in the summer, and boots in the winter. If you look at my friends, they wear similar styles of clothing. You can determine the type of person someone is, and the kind of “clique” they belong to by the clothes in which they wear. The kids who wear all black clothes, extremely baggy pants with chains on them, and have crazy hairstyles and colors are considered “gothic”. They are trying to make a statement, and draw attention to themselves through the way they dress. People stare at them, and think they wear weird clothing, but it is only their style. What they wear is what they are “supposed to wear” in their clique. They think the clothes that everyone else wears are weird. The patterns on their shirts and pants can come off as scary, like skulls and cross bones. They also wear screamo band t-shirts, which may be their favorite band. Seeing the kind of music they listen to puts them in this group as well. The “jocks” are the ones who wear the football jackets with the varsity letters on them, jerseys, Nike tennis shoes, and have short haircuts. You can always see them wearing matching, athletic name brand clothes, such as Puma, Jordans, high top basketball tennis shoes, and Adidas. It makes you think to yourself, do they ever actually sweat in those clothes? The jocks play sports all year round, and you will always see them in pictures on the school newspaper scoring the winning goal, or making the final lay up of the game. They have the homecoming queen girlfriends, who are most of the time cheerleaders that wear preppy bows in their hair, and carry Coach purses. Lastly, the jocks do not necessarily have very good grades because their focus is on sports, not school. They do whatever they have to do to get by so they can remain on the team. The kids who wear goofy looking glasses, pants that are too short for them, and Anime t-shirts, are considered the “nerds”. They are the ones who sit in the front of the classroom, answer all of the teacher’s questions, get straight A’s, and always have their homework done. They usually do not have much of a social life because they spend all of their time playing video games and doing schoolwork. The nerds also have a tendency to wear the same clothes all of the time. Whether or not they only have those few items of clothing in their closet, or they just wear their favorite Pokémon shirt all of the time because they want to, is to be determined. When you look at someone and what they are wearing, you cannot help but to think to yourself that they belong to a certain “clique”. I realize that these judgments may be stereotypical, but when someone has on a shirt that comes from Hollister, you think to yourself that they might be prep. When you see someone who has a band t-shirt, or is wearing all black, you think to yourself that they could belong to the gothic group. Whatever someone wears, represents their personality, who they are, and could possibly show what they want people to perceive them as. Their style represents who they are as a person. So, what clique do you belong to?