Fashion, hairstyles and make-up are not limited on the runways or to fashionistas. The young crowd, especially college goers, are the consumers of fashion. Bright red lips, vibrant eyes accentuated by long lashes or mascaras, or dramatic eye liners and/or trendy braided hairstyle to match with their well-fitted college uniforms — college going girls are up-to-date with the latest styles and trends. And they don’t leave their sense of fashion at home when they go to college. The boys are not also behind. Even if they don’t put on make-up, they experiment with their hairstyles — be it pompadour or short or spiky — and beard or moustache.
Being fashionable is an asset for these students despite it is restricted in their institutions. And to look beautiful or different or to enhance their personalities, these students follow fashion.
Right or wrong?
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Colleges don’t allow students to wear make-up or style their hair. However, this doesn’t stop the students from applying make-up (girls) or growing or styling their hair (boys).
Sarita Khadgi, student of Class XI at Prime College, Nayabazar is one of them. Pink lipstick is what she decorates her lips with to “look beautiful. As I started to wear pink chap stick, I liked the colour that it gave to my lips. Then, I started wearing lipstick”.
Fashion is a way of living to her and this is something she has added in her life. “I didn’t use lipstick until I joined the college recently. I was influenced by one of my friends,” she shares adding, “We can do age-appropriate make-up and this is our age to experiment.”
Echoing similar views is her friend Niraj Subedi, who believes following fashion within limit is fine for students. He explains, “We don’t come to college wearing clothes as per our wish. We have our college uniform. However, we can do some styling to our hair and keep stylish moustache.”
Subedi is content with his short hairstyle and thin moustache even in his uniform.
However, recent Class XII graduate Priyanka Shah from Viswa Niketan College, Tripureshwor thinks otherwise. “Following fashion in college is inappropriate because college is where students come to study,” she expresses citing, “Students belong to various family backgrounds. Not everyone can afford to be fashionable. One can be frustrated and even humiliated if s/he can’t afford things but sees other fashionable friends. There are also chances of them getting involved in things that they shouldn’t be, to look like their friends.”
Most colleges have strict regulations regarding school uniforms. Some rules restrict students from wearing make-up or growing long hair among others. With fashion and style being a lifestyle, you can’t bar students to be influenced by it. So, the colleges are playing along.
Shiv Chandra Jha, Coordinator at Prime College states, “We allow female students to be fashionable to some extent — they can put liner on their eyes or use pink lipstick. They enter the college without make-up in the morning. But as we can’t monitor them all the time, they often apply make-up after entering the college. However we don’t allow them to be loud in the name of fashion.”
Personality and attitude
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Fashion is not just limited to make-up or styling hair. It is also what you wear and how. For these students, right kind of style and fashion enhances one’s personality, boosting his/her confidence. And so s/he makes a good impression.
“Smartly dressed teachers create a positive impact in a classroom. Students tend to be attentive to those teachers rather than teachers who are not groomed. Right kind of fashion has this kind of impression,” Aakash Karki, student of BA LLB IInd Year at Nepal Law Campus, Exhibition Road puts out.
It is all about attitude and impression, for Karki’s classmate Manobigyan Sharma. He explains, “If a doctor has dreadlocks, he won’t earn trust as a doctor, but if a rock star has dreadlocks, it gives him personality and identity. Fashion is not only about spark and glitter but it gives identity profession wise. For example, a doctor wears white gown while a lawyer wears black coat.”
Smart attire, hairstyle, and make-up add to you personality, and it ultimately helps you in the long run. “Being fashionable within limitations is needed to gain confidence among friends. It’s only with this confidence that a student can develop a positive attitude,” Nitu Pal, a Class XII graduate from Everest College, Solteemode, who is preparing for MBBS, states adding, “We shouldn’t be walking around with greasy hair or shabbily dressed. It will affect us negatively and will make us conscious of what others are thinking of us.”
But she insists that fashion has to be “appropriate”.
Source: THT
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