It shows who you are. Girls are very into that. Azria-Palomba adds that school uniforms are a challenge for a lot of students. They like to play around by shortening the skirt or do something like sneak a tiny polo shirt in. They like to play with that uniform and make it more them.
Teens don t want to play by our rules.
They don t necessarily want to follow what the designers say or what the magazines say. They re so sure of themselves these days. I ve never seen the kind of confidence that I see with today s teen, she says. Confident yes, but teens are hardly impervious to influences such as Janet Jackson and Britney Spears. They look at Jennifer Lopez or Jessica Simpson, says Azria-Palomba.