Sometime around age 13 kids start to resist the normal "winter wear" that adults embrace and children are compelled to wear. Something must happen to their metabolism, or, more likely, their sense of peer influence. Wearing coats is no longer "cool." Wearing hats, gloves or boots is definitely not cool. Kids will stand at the bus stop in sweatshirts and sneakers, hands shoved deep into pockets, backs to the wind with red cheeks and frozen toes. Across campus young men and women huddle inside thin jackets and slosh through the snow puddles in open shoes. A few will buck the fashion trend and envelope themselves in down jackets, ear flap hats, and fuzzy mittens. Boys may agree to a pair of workboots, and maybe a hat. But a coat? No. Mittens or gloves. Absolutely not.
Ugg boots are popular footwear for the ladies on campus. I can walk across campus and see pair after pair. Where does such a trend start? No matter, it soon spreads across the campus like wildfire. I'm sure by now they are way out of style, and I'll be anxious to see what new trend awaits me when the students arrive.
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