High School Fashion Autumn 2014

 Normcore is the New Chanel!

Give me a Justinfication!

We've got to blame someone for how absolutely awful the kids are looking on their first days back in high school, right?  I mean 9 out of 10 boys at Palo Alto High (James Franco's old stomping ground) are wearing CAMOUFLAGE?  Like Justin Beiber, role model nightmare?  First of all, Palo Alto High School is one of the best public high schools in the state, if not the country.  The kids here are smart and driven, by themselves and by their parents.

Little Missy Guesses Kids Like Beiber

But I'm just wondering what this camouflage is really all about.  Because life's a mess, and every where you turn you can see wars, fighting and more fighting.  And here are these kids on this idyllic high school campus situated right across the street from a tony little shopping centre, and four out of five of the boys are walking around in camouflage.  Swap that out for the real thing in a couple of years and it begins to feel really nightmarish.

The Girls Are Persuaded By What?

Here is a modest version of how the girls are dressing on the Paly campus.  As a longtime proponent of If You've Got it, Flaunt It, I can only shake my head.  Well...the weather in Palo Alto is pretty close to perfect in August.  It's what I now call my Justinfication!

Normcore is the new Chanel!

Normcore is looking better and better to me.  As Wikipedia describes Normcore:

Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterised by unpretentious, average-looking clothing

Little Missy would really rather see this on kids than camouflage and skimpy.  It would be so simple, like a high school uniform.  Very democratic!  And who then, is the Coco Chanel of Normcore?

Steve Jobs, Mr. Normcore  Himself!

And a better role model than Justin Beiber!