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Styles of the ’90s reflected those of generations past
BY EMILY HARRELL
The Battalion
EMILY HARRELL AND CHAD ADAMS/ I m Ha
A strange thing happened January 1, 1990.
When Generation X rang in the New
Year, celebrating the passage of
the ’80s and welcoming the new
decade, time in the world of our gen
eration’s fashion began a retro spiral
that still continues today.
While technology, politics, and
even Sting progressed into the
nineties, fashion trends fell prey to
’70s styles.
Bell-bottoms and platform shoes
multiplied like rabbits. Fearful lo resist the
trend, men pulled their shirt collars out of their
jackets.
Polyester clothing attacked consumers in the
form of shirts, pants and, in some
cases, entire suits.
When retail clothing vendors
failed to keep up with the demand
for retro clothing, the vintage cloth
ing store was born, encouraging
consumers to buy used clothing—
the older the better.
As time went on, Generation X
looked more and more into the past for “new”
fashion ideas, drawing from styles of the ’70s,
followed by the ’60s, ’50s, and '40s.
By the time dawn broke 10 years later, the
fashion world was a virtual retro salad.
Polyester, bell-bottoms, hip-lniggers, pedal
pushers, capri pants, wing tips and mary-janes
could all be found in the same room, defining a
generation that refuses to be defined.
“1 think our generation is similar to
the ‘Lost Generation’ of the ’20s and
the hippies of the ’60s,” Celeste
Davis, a senior chemistry and English
major said. “1 mean,
we’re not coming out of
a war or anything, but we
did go through a war. We
can only take what’s
been done before and add our own
style to it.
“Everything goes in cycles, if you think
about it,” Davis said. ”1 think we pull from the
past, but we add our own fiair. We have
capri pants, but they may be metallic.
We have bell-bottoms, but we make
them huge, like in the rave scene. You
have to pull from the past; it’s in
evitable, because so much has already
been done. We want our own identity,
but there’s nothing new to do anymore.
You have to recycle.”
Not everyone feels that the current fashion
trends necessarily reflect the identity of the gen
eration, however.
Rebecca Beidel, a senior Spanish major,
said, “I think that the popularity of certain styles
is the result of some higher-up authority, some
fashion expert who decides what should come
back into style. They have the power to put the
clothes they want in the magazines, and the peo
ple who read the magazines think that they have
to have those clothes.”
Beidel said she can not tell whether her
clothing choices are based solely upon her in
dividual taste, or if she has been influ
enced by popular culUire. “I don’t pur
posely avoid trends, but I just don’t get
all into them. But I guess 1 am influenced
by what 1 see in the stores and by what
other people are wearing.
“What I do, is 1 just go in the store and try
on what 1 think is cute. I don’t know if I think
it’s cute just because 1 like it, or if Eve been in
fluenced by everything around me.”
Whatever its cause is, Davis said there is
something to be feared in the continuation of
retro clothing’s popularity.
“At least the ’80s haven't come back in,” she
said. “1 think it would be terrifying to see peo
ple walking around in bangle bracelets. Last
weekend, my friend and 1 saw a GAP ad for jean
jackets, and I couldn’t believe it. It said some
thing like, ‘You won’t he the first, but don’t be
the last,' “ Davis said.
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A student smiles with pride as
the printer spits out his newest
creation. After three long
years of diligently preparing for the
world, it is all going to pay off at
career fair on Friday. But as he
;s over his resume he realizes that
llie summer job of squeegeeing fat at
McDonald’sjust isn’t as impressive as
lie thought.
With a sense of panic he pours
over the classifieds, looking for a job
offers prestige and some real
world experience.
The Department of Sociology
now offers an internship program that
fits sociology students with experi
ence that impresses even the most
snooty employers.
Dr. Carol Albrecht, internship co
ordinator for the Department of Soci-
/, said this program is great to
achieve some real world experience.
“A year and a half ago we started
s program,” Albrecht said. “We
ce students in the Bryan-College
Station community, in big cities, such
as Houston and we have placed peo
ple overseas.”
Albrecht said that there are three
purposes to the program, all of which
are beneficial to students.
“The program is geared to making
students more marketable,” Albrecht
said. “To help them to network and
meet people in the field that they want
to work in, and to steer students into fo
cusing toward how to use their degree.”
Although A&M is a top university,
there are some programs that it lacks,
the sociology internship program
helps students that are interested in
these neglected fields of study.
“There is no pre-law, social work,
or criminal justice program here at
A&M,” Albrecht said. “This program
gives students the ability to compete
with candidates from other schools
that do have those programs.”
Although the program sounds too
good to be true, it is not open to any
one, most, although not all of the in
ternships, accept only sociology ma
jors or minors.
Students must have a 2.5 GPR to
qualify for the program. Albrecht said
this cap makes students want to do bet
ter in their classes in order to get one of
the more prestigious internships.
Most internship programs are part
nered with lesser-known corporations,
but this one has some of the best op
portunities.
“We had a student work for the FBI
a few semesters ago,” Albrecht said.
“This is an example of one of the in
ternships that any major can apply for,
but the GPR requirement is a 3.0.”
Once involved in the program, Al
brecht said students are impressed with
the depth of the program.
“I’ve had students tell me that they
have learned as much at their internship
as they have in four years of class,” Al
brecht said. “One of the reasons this
[program] works so well is because of
the monitoring and the one-on-one
treatment that the students.receive from
the companies.
The interns are not volunteers, they
don’t spend the whole semester fil
ing,” she said. “It’s our job to make
sure they get the experience they
signed up for.”
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