Well, hello there! This is my last week of writing columns, which is sad for a handful of you, relieving for others and means absolutely nothing to most. I’m sad I won’t get to share my disjointed thoughts with you for a while, but here is one last one. Some of the fashions on this campus are God awful. I am going to offend a lot of people with what I say, but realize it has to be said and that I’m doing it for your own good.

Stop wearing Ugg boots. I don’t care how comfortable they are, they are ugly. Uggly. Would you wear your slippers out of the house and try to coordinate them with rest of your outfit? No! So don’t wear them. Almost every woman on campus has a pair, and half of them only got them because they saw the other half wearing them. Now, if you can’t part with your beloved Uggs, then let’s compromise. Don’t wear your Uggs with shorts. Either it’s cold out or it’s warm – it is not both (hint: now it is warm so don’t wear Uggs with anything). I know you think it looks cute and that you can really show off your legs, but in actuality it is not cute so much as dumb.

Guys, please pull up your pants. Now, while I don’t see a lot of guys with pants hanging off their butts anymore because most of them have realized this isn’t 1996, I do see it occasionally. I don’t know if these guys are just lazy or actually think that females want to see their boxers. We do not.

Ladies, I don’t know when leggings became interchangeable with pants, but they are not one and the same. Leggings are meant to be worn under things (or not at all anymore, depending on if you believe the fashion experts or not). When you wear leggings with a short T-shirt, you make others around you feel uncomfortable with the impending camel-toe effect.

Also, don’t come to class with your boobs sticking out. Save that for Green Street.

What really bothers me more than anything else is when people take trends off the runway and try to incorporate them into real life. Like the new trend of putting headbands around your forehead. The only way this style is acceptable is if you are a ninja, in which case you are awesome already and don’t have to worry about fashion.

Finally, people, please don’t wear pajama pants to class. Just take that extra minute to throw on jeans. Pajama pants make you look like you don’t care at all about how people perceive you. And why would anyone take you for the intellectual student you are when you can’t even bother to wear real-person clothes?

I know I personally am not perfect when it comes to dressing – not even close. I love wearing a T-shirt and jeans or my sweatpants to class. But you would never catch me sporting any of the above “fashions,” and I try to wear nicer clothes at least two times a week.

Sadly, these tips only scratch the surface of the abomination that is campus fashion, but I will save that for a column next semester. That wasn’t so bad, was it?

Colleen is a junior in Media and wants to thank Missy on the features staff for giving her the idea to rip apart bad campus fashion. She also wants to thank everyone she works with at the DI for a great year. She can be reached at [email protected].