With the Class of 2025’s senior year coming to an end, seniors take the time to look and reflect on the trends throughout their high school career, thinking about how the landscape for trends has changed since they entered this school four years ago.
Seniors describe that the flow of trends have changed drastically over the years since they were freshmen, Articulating how the space has changed a lot since when they first joined the school. Giving a new perspective on hour senior year has given them freedom to break away from trends and make their own style.
“It was definitely easier back then to experiment back then because I feel like a lot more people just tried to figure out their style. I feel like now its kinds just more plain,” said Payton McCall, senior
Seniors also describe how trends have grown over the years, with some staying and becoming pillars of culture while others fall to the wayside and how social media has played a role in all of that.
“Freshman year, it was still kinda like Lululemon and TikTok pretty much, but now it still is TikTok but people have found their style into more street wear with jeans and hoodies. Freshman year it was more like leggings,” McCall said.
One senior likes to take things in a little more relaxed direction, not going for a flashy style but one that prioritizes the comfort of the wearer.
“I like Nike, I like gym clothes,” said Micheal Stafford, senior. “I’ve always loved basketball and you know during march madness they’re like showing their abilities to play. They do well and that’s how these players get set up with crazy contracts.”
Some seniors offer different attitudes toward trends, on how focusing on oneself can be more beneficial.
“I realize that doing things that make you better everyday, the things that you do behind closed doors that nobody else sees is way more fulfilling than doing what everybody else is doing in highschool. It’s good to have fun but at the end of the day bettering yourself everyday and setting aside time for yourself is what matters, that’s what’s gonna set you apart,” Stafford said.
One trend that is often overlooked as being a funny joke is seen through the eyes of seniors as being their last chance at doing something fun before adulthood.
“I liked that all the seniors do the fun backpacks. We get our final year of childhood before we go off to college,” said Megan Scott, senior. “Its our last time to be like kids and teenagers before we have to go into the real world and get jobs and go to college.”
Being a senior means having only one more year before growing up and joining the real world, but also means having more freedom to be yourself than in freshman year.
“I would say now because you get more freedom and you get time to grow,” Scott said.
Becoming a senior can also make one feel free from having to conform to trends
“I just feel like freshman year you have so much pressure to be no mistakes, just perfect, and now nobody cares,” McCall said.
Overall, senior year brings new challenges of having to decide the future but also brings new avenues of self expression
“I definitely feel like now I don’t really care as much about being perfect,” McCall said.
