A bold fashion statement — or just overboard?

This week, at the suggestion of a reader -- Joshua Nelson, from Bountiful High School -- Pulse reporters asked questions about the clothes that teens wear to school: "Do you find the current fashions offensive, and, if so, have they gotten worse over the past year?"

"I think the current fashions are cute and not offensive. If that's how people want to dress, then let them dress that way." -- Danielle Pugmire, senior, Murray High School

"The fashions have gotten better, but they've also gotten a little more boring, too. They need more of a variety of cute, modest fashions." -- Grace West, junior, Juab High School

"I really don't care about other people's clothes because I don't judge them by what they wear." -- Justin Memmott, freshman, Juab

"I don't think they have gotten worse. Fashion changes from year to year -- it's bound to get worse in some people's eyes. The fashion doesn't offend me at all. I think it's cute, personally. What you wear just expresses who you are; it just makes a statement." -- Yana Jurovitzki, senior, Cottonwood High School

"People that aren't fashionable are offensive." -- Erin Anthony, senior, Murray

"School fashions are different with every year, because every single year a group of kids are 'individuals,' and they come in different than the previous year. I find fashions a little offensive because that's where a lot of the name-calling and a lot of the teasing come from. (If) you don't have a certain kind of clothes, kids do get teased. Or if they wear their hair wrong or something, then they get teased. I think that the way it should be in high school is that as long as you're up to par in hygiene, everyone should be friends, because these should be the best years of your life." -- Ashley Schollenberger, junior, Juab

"I think the current fashions in school are just getting ridiculous because of the short shirts, the low fronts, the low pants that both guys and girls wear. It's definitely getting worse with the freshmen." -- Sara Imler, junior, Juab

"A lot of today's fashions have become a little too revealing. The only time I'm offended by them is when they leave nothing to the imagination. Recently, the shirts are more low-cut; the skirts are way too short. Even the shorts are too short." -- Whitney Keate, junior, Cottonwood

"The current school fashions are pretty stupid. Most of them, Wranglers and tight jeans and stuff -- I really particularly do not like those. And then there's always, you've got your letterman's jacket, and you're, 'Yeah, whoop-dee-do, I'm big and big.' So, yeah, it has gotten worse because more people have gotten letterman jackets, and there are more people flaunting off their abilities." -- James Green, sophomore, Juab

"The outfits in Juab don't bug me; they are just kind of weird because kids try to be cool by wearing . . . things that make them look stupid." -- Alyssa Wood, freshman, Juab

"It doesn't really offend me because I don't pay too much attention to it, but I do believe that it has gotten worse; everything is shorter and tighter." -- Ashley Adams, senior, Murray

"I don't think fashions affect me. We shouldn't be ruled by what we wear but by what we do." -- Amy Zirbes, junior, Juab

"I don't have a problem with it. I don't think it's very noticeable. There are so many fads that come and go." -- Bransin Anderson, senior, Murray

"I really don't care what people wear. It doesn't affect me much." -- Landon Nielson, freshman, Juab

Caitlin Holladay is a junior at Juab High School, Brooke Niemeyer is a senior at Cottonwood High School and Mallory Hill is a senior at Murray High School. If you will be a junior in high school next year and would like to write for Pulse, please e-mail pulse@desnews.com or write to the Deseret Morning News, attention Susan Whitney.

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