Would the bottom right image be considered overdressed for you? Because that would have been a common sight at my school, at least the type of clothes. Not just the rich kids either. Could be a cultural thing but like this is Southern Germany I'm talking about, not Paris or Milan

We kinda have them, but we freaked out and largely discontinued them.

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Muh freedom moment

I don't get it except the red-shirted lady looks way out of proportion, like an AI pic maybe. I dressed like a slob in HS and have no idea how other people dressed.

Many do. Mostly Catholics though, and those kids are a little intense. My wife was smoking in the bathroom and dating while I was painting minis

Thats lindsay lohan, and thats just what lowcut jeans did to us. Theres a reason they didnt stick around lol

Private schools exist

From what I've heard from Americans, the standard of dress for basic tasks like going to the shop is apparently high compared to the same in America

I live in Seattle and those girls look like they are about to go to a club and not school to me. Granted in my area if I, as a man, wear a shirt with buttons on it to the office I feel like I am dressing up.

freeeeeeeedumb

One of the core tenets of fascism is uniformity. Give trump some time to cook and I'm sure he'll make school uniforms mandatory soon enough.

You've never seen Mean Girls?

It's also a movie poster, so could've been photoshopped.

My high school look started off so extra. It pivoted so slightly, yet thoroughly, to whatever the opposite of extra is, that if I described it and dropped a location I'd probably dox myself.

I'm a frayed knot.

I wouldn't have guessed those were low cut jeans and I didn't recognize Lindsay Lohan, but ok, at least I've heard of her. Thanks.

See what I mean

Yep, I’m an American who moved to Germany and I wish it was accepted to wear sweatpants and my husband’s t shirt to the grocery store. I still do sometimes, but I don’t enjoy being stared at angrily by old ladies in public, so most of the time I’ll at least pull jeans on. I’m never getting rid of my Asidutt though.

Luckily, linen shorts are as comfortable as sweatpants in warm weather and don’t look as schlubby.

I used to think that media isn't influencing my real life worldviews in a significant way. But now that I am older, I realised that media sold us impossible notions that so long as you live within your means, you could have a pretty good lifestyle as a young adult, while also eventually able to save money to buy your own house and raise a family. I kinda got that from Friends. Although now, that ship has sailed. These shows and movies were operating on the zeitgeist at the time during the economic boom in 1990s and 2000s (well the media is scripted as well, so of course there is bending reality). After the late 00's economic crash, as a millennial, we are forced to give up one desire and dreams over the other. We couldn't have it all unlike the older generations.

I feel worse for the younger generations following us. They are going to inherit a world that is literally cooking everyone, in spite the inspiration from Greta Thunberg to global protest against the inaction on climate change when they were kids. How could they feel more optimistic about the future like the boomers and Gen X? No wonder populist far right is gaining traction; the global liberal order failed all of us except for the few elites.

I didn't mean to go on a long serious musing over a post about high school clothings lol. It was a spur of the moment.