Students thread campus fabric with personal fashion, style

By Bailey Latham | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photos by Adam Fratus

Just because New York Fashion Week is over, doesn’t mean that the fashion stops. Is it possible for a college to have a certain fashion “look?” Everyone has his or her own style, and that’s what makes up the fabric of a campus’s individuality.

Flagler College has a unique style on campus, and students from the University of Central Florida and Florida State University agree that their campuses have a certain style look.

“Most people represent their UCF pride by wearing a UCF sweatshirt around campus because the classrooms are always so cold,” Courtney Sellers, a student at UCF said. “I’ve noticed that the fashion tends to be more casual, jeans with holes, flip flops, and a T, are prevalent. It is very common to see most people in workout clothes because we have very active Intramural Leagues going on throughout the day.”

“FSU has a really eclectic range of styles,” Giana Lopez, an FSU student, said. “A large percentage of our student body is involved with Greek Life, so there are many people who combo the ‘Uggs-with-athletic-shorts’ and bleached pony-tails with large sunglasses. On the other end of the spectrum, it’s not rare to see a guy with a green mohawk walking next to a girl with a big pink flower in her Corrine Bailey Rae afro. The different backgrounds and styles of the students of FSU have made an environment in which any style is acceptable and many different ones are showcased.”

Flagler’s look is different and offbeat.

“Flagler, being a liberal arts school definitely has a more artsy vibe,” said Flagler student Kory Duffy. “Half of the school dressed really trendy and the other half are dressed nicely, like a cool, business casual.”

The thing that makes Flagler’s style so unique, is that it is just that, unique. Everyone’s style is so different, so them. In each picture, the person featured seems confident in the style of clothing that they are wearing. As an observer of Flagler fashion, our school accepts and cultivates an idea that you could wake up one morning and feel like dressing “trendy” and the next morning “slum” it in sweatpants.

Here are six students and one professor who exhibit their own personal styles.

Colin Bailes, English major	Dana Adams, psychology major	Matt Meinhardt, graphic design/fine art major
Marie Peratta, communication major	Arlin Zajmi, business and Spanish major	Tony Ryder, political science major
	Dr. Alex Cummins, History Department