- Led Zeppelin or Def Leppard or Nirvana tee-shirts. Yes, the music is timeless, but find your own bands, kiddos! Do you even know what vinyl records are?
- Face masks resting under noses or slung below chins. Just what good are those masks doing, anyhow? What kind of messages are they sending?
- Mega-large fake eyelashes. Can these young ladies see their friends from behind these dense lashes? See their teachers? Their classwork? Their phones? (OK, maybe it’s OK if they can’t see their phones.)
- Crocs. When you are so young, why not choose style over comfort?
- Crocs with “charms” to decorate them. No, just no. No.
- Jeans with multiple rips and holes and missing fabric. Why bother? Why not just wear shorts?
- Pajama pants. Yes, I get that they are cozy and warm (heck, anything’s got to be warmer than those ripped jeans) but those should be a treat to look forward to at the end of a long day. Keep those at home!
- Belly-button jewelry. Those fake diamonds in the navel look cheap and tacky, and yet I always notice them, a great example of the human phenomenon of not being able to pull our eyes away from tragedies.
- Tank tops that are cut high enough to show off the aforementioned jewelry. But now that I think about it, maybe it’s better for the eyes to be drawn to the navel after all, versus being drawn to cleavage exposed by the tank tops.
- Fishnet stockings. Too sexy for school, and (most) high schoolers don’t yet have the poise and swagger to be sexy.
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