In my experience in American high school (20 or so years ago now) I wouldn’t say they’re ridiculously overdressed, but certainly kind of an outlier, we might’ve had a couple girls dress like that on any given day. They’d also probably be violating or at least very close to the limits of my school’s dress code with the skirt lengths.
The left one looks about right to me though. Maybe slightly more dressed up than average, but would blend into most crowds well enough. Except for the heels, I wasn’t exactly looking at people’s shoes but I don’t remember anyone ever wearing heels to school unless there was some sort of special event.
In general, I’d say the average high schooler back then wore a t shirt or maybe a sports jersey, and if it was cold maybe some of them wore a flannel shirt sweater of some kind (mostly the girls for sweaters)
A hoodie if it was cold
Jeans, sweatpants, sometimes pajama pants, shorts when it was hot out, cargo pants (mostly the guys) and once in a while some of the girls would mix in a skirt or dress, but not often.
You’d also get a handful of preppier kids with khakis and polo shirts or a button-up, a few goths or artsy types, etc. who might wear something crazy, the one weirdo who wore a suit, etc.
But mostly it was jeans or sweatpants and a t shirt.
I was more of a cargo pants and t shirt guy myself.
I don’t pay too much attention to what my local teenagers are doing these days, but from what I’ve seen of them it looks like they’ve slipped further towards the sweatpants and pajamas end of the spectrum.
American who has been out of HS for a year now. I feel like unless you’re a girl who seriously cares about her image/aesthetic and/or had a special event that day, most girls didn’t dress like that at my HS. Not saying never at all, just not very often.
Also would’ve probably got dress coded in those anyway, especially the “spaghetti straps” dresses (distinctly remember a faculty member telling a student body kid that their dress straps were too small and to cover up before a ceremony 🙄), the skirts are toeing the line.
Lots of us were in pajamas, sweatpants, Crocs & slides, hoodies, shorts, and some brought little plushies or small blankets. I mean seriously my old HS and current college have hordes of people who look ready to drop the moment they hit a chair.
I’m pretty average, I didn’t wanna look too lazy so I never wore pajamas unless it was a spirit day. But I was usually in sweatpants on the nice days, and jeans in the cold seasons (although some freaks still wore shorts and Crocs in 40 degree weather). Hoodies all the time, unless it was literally boiling hot. Did my best to not wear shorts sometimes because of body hair fear, but stopped giving a fuck by college.
Some people definitely dressed up, but only those who were doing an aesthetic/style of some sort (neon, goth, punk, clean girl, etc). The rest of us were lazy bums lol.
In my school heels were commonplace, we used more layers in winter because we used to get heavy snow almost every year and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone here in their pajamas in public but other than that it was probably not too different.
In my experience in American high school (20 or so years ago now) I wouldn’t say they’re ridiculously overdressed, but certainly kind of an outlier, we might’ve had a couple girls dress like that on any given day. They’d also probably be violating or at least very close to the limits of my school’s dress code with the skirt lengths.
The left one looks about right to me though. Maybe slightly more dressed up than average, but would blend into most crowds well enough. Except for the heels, I wasn’t exactly looking at people’s shoes but I don’t remember anyone ever wearing heels to school unless there was some sort of special event.
In general, I’d say the average high schooler back then wore a t shirt or maybe a sports jersey, and if it was cold maybe some of them wore a flannel shirt sweater of some kind (mostly the girls for sweaters)
A hoodie if it was cold
Jeans, sweatpants, sometimes pajama pants, shorts when it was hot out, cargo pants (mostly the guys) and once in a while some of the girls would mix in a skirt or dress, but not often.
You’d also get a handful of preppier kids with khakis and polo shirts or a button-up, a few goths or artsy types, etc. who might wear something crazy, the one weirdo who wore a suit, etc.
But mostly it was jeans or sweatpants and a t shirt.
I was more of a cargo pants and t shirt guy myself.
I don’t pay too much attention to what my local teenagers are doing these days, but from what I’ve seen of them it looks like they’ve slipped further towards the sweatpants and pajamas end of the spectrum.
American who has been out of HS for a year now. I feel like unless you’re a girl who seriously cares about her image/aesthetic and/or had a special event that day, most girls didn’t dress like that at my HS. Not saying never at all, just not very often.
Also would’ve probably got dress coded in those anyway, especially the “spaghetti straps” dresses (distinctly remember a faculty member telling a student body kid that their dress straps were too small and to cover up before a ceremony 🙄), the skirts are toeing the line.
Lots of us were in pajamas, sweatpants, Crocs & slides, hoodies, shorts, and some brought little plushies or small blankets. I mean seriously my old HS and current college have hordes of people who look ready to drop the moment they hit a chair.
I’m pretty average, I didn’t wanna look too lazy so I never wore pajamas unless it was a spirit day. But I was usually in sweatpants on the nice days, and jeans in the cold seasons (although some freaks still wore shorts and Crocs in 40 degree weather). Hoodies all the time, unless it was literally boiling hot. Did my best to not wear shorts sometimes because of body hair fear, but stopped giving a fuck by college.
Some people definitely dressed up, but only those who were doing an aesthetic/style of some sort (neon, goth, punk, clean girl, etc). The rest of us were lazy bums lol.
Okay yeah that sounds more nuanced.
In my school heels were commonplace, we used more layers in winter because we used to get heavy snow almost every year and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone here in their pajamas in public but other than that it was probably not too different.