Comments on: links: beauty and shopping

By: megan

megan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:03:44 +0000

Alright, the Urban Cupholder link is fixed in the entry - sorry about that and thanks to everybody who put the correct link in the comments!

By: Mer

Mer — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:16:37 +0000

Kids will always find some way to stratify themselves. At my school it was shoes and backpacks. Also, I learned absolutely nothing about what looks good on me since I wore uniforms for ten years. Starting public school as a junior in high school was a real shock for me.

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:45:46 +0000

i liked my uniform because i didn't have to stress about what to wear. i could buy regular clothes for dances, tag days (i.e. non-uniform days), and the weekends. also, not sure about these days, but when i was in high school the kids with more money were usually the least concerned with the types of shoes/jewelry/etc. they wore or what backpack they carried to school. socioeconomic issues are always going to be around with or without uniforms. but they do give kids and parents one less thing to worry about on a daily basis, so i'm all for them.

By: Emilee

Emilee — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:25:04 +0000

Uniforms are simply not the panacea that the pro-uniform folks would have us believe. However, it does solve the problem of what to wear every day. That's worth something. And a uniform is much easier to deal with than the super-restrictive dress codes that some schools are implementing. Find a white polo and a navy skirt. Check. Find something an eight-year-old will wear without any words or designs bigger than a quarter, that has both a collar sleeves and goes to the knees. Much more difficult.

By: Manders

Manders — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:40:59 +0000

My school tried to solve the problem by making us all shop at the same store (if you wore something from somewhere else, you got busted), which did help in a way that we were all wearing the same expensive, butt-ugly clothes (heh). But, like Bubbles said, what do you do after school? What do you do when the guy next to you is talking about his $500 Takamine guitar when you've got a $100 Gibson knockoff? (Okay, maybe that last part's just me.)

By: Bubbles

Bubbles — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:12:31 +0000

My argument against school unforms, when people brought up the equalizing factor, is "and what will you wear on the weekends? After school? To parties? Should we create a national uniform that everyone should always wear so that nobody ever feels out of place?" Uniforms don't address the problems at hand, they cover them up.

By: courtney

courtney — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:54:52 +0000

You know, I do agree with you for the most part about school uniforms. However the school's that the article talks about are issuing their kids uniforms. That might be a little different. But then there is always jewelry shoes and backpacks/purses, and even cars as the kids get older. So even issuing uniforms might not work.

By: kettunainen

kettunainen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:47:29 +0000

shoes, jewelry, purses, PENS AND PENCILS fer cryin' out loud... anything and everthing becomes fair game for classist drama. ugh.

By: Haven

Haven — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:46:49 +0000

School uniforms - yep, all the kids with money wore blue dickies (cool) while the less fortunate actually got their blue, pleated tapered pants at Walmart.

By: MontanaJen

MontanaJen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:45:45 +0000

am - here's the link. I just googled 'urban cup holder'. Swiss Miss was my 1st hit.

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/urban-cup-holde.html

By: MontanaJen

MontanaJen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:45:29 +0000

am - here's the link. I just googled 'urban cup holder'. Swiss Miss was my 1st hit.

By: LL

LL — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:40:11 +0000

Is this the cupholder link??

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/urban-cup-holde.html

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:27:26 +0000

So true about uniforms. Shoes and jewelry too!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:13:06 +0000

I agree about school uniforms - there was something about a handknitted jersey, even though it was in regulation colours and the pattern given out by the school, that you could never quite rise above ;)

By: perry smith

perry smith — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:04:27 +0000

just fyi-

the 'urban cup holder' link ref is a duplicate of the 'school uniform' link.