What's in, what's out? Do people really care about making a fashion statement anymore? Nowadays, what you wear is the style. Everyone seems to be creating his or her own fashion statement.
New York City was once the fashion capital of the world. Everybody followed the trendy styles from the Big Apple. You were not in style unless you wore a pair of Calvin Klein jeans.
Today, around the campus here at MCC-Penn Valley, you see many students making a homemade fashion statement, considered the "punk style." The punk style is a distinctive combination of different clothing, hairstyles and jewelry, as well as music.
 CeeCee Brown |
Joy Ojo, sophomore, says that she is "not really into the punk hairstyles," but she does love to wear ripped jeans as a form of the punk style.
Freshman Sarah Griffith says she's not into the punk clothes or hairstyle, but she loves the punk music. Griffith says that her brother is the punk rocker in her family, "with the tattoos, mohawk and different styles of clothing."
The true punk rocker around campus is CeeCee Brown, sophomore psychology major. Brown says that he is "expressing [him]self as an individual who likes to be different." He believes "people should be who they are and not who someone else tells them to be." Brown says that when people look at him, he feels they're taking time out to notice that he is making a "punk" fashion statement. Brown's favorite quote is,"You can't have a testimony without a test."
Punk style originated back in the 1970s. It evolved over the years with music groups like the Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop. Now it is basically a takeoff on what were once offensive styles of clothing, jewelry and hair.
"Punk" has become a true fashion statement of its own.
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