Written by Alexandra Gautier
Dressing for summer temperatures during the school year should be easy, yes? Absolutely false. When it’s regularly upwards of 80-degrees during your routine walks to class, Commons, etc. and then plummets to the 60-degree range indoors, picking an outfit can be a struggle. The best solution for this dilemma is layers, my friends. Below are three options for your inner layering queen.
The first outfit that I generally opt for in these situations is a midi dress, sneakers, and jean jacket. The midi dress can be interchangeable with a t shirt tucked into a midi skirt. When outdoors, the flowy dress (or skirt) allows you to remain cool and collected. The sneakers, in addition to being a very fashionable combination at the moment, allow you to comfortably get from point A to point B. Especially if point A is your dorm room and point B is the classroom, and you decided to press “snooze” on your alarm one too many times. The longer dress also helps to keep you a little warmer in the overly air-conditioned classrooms, in addition to throwing on a jean jacket – a very versatile staple.
My second go-to is best tailored to the degree of freezing you expect in the classroom, but is a very simple concept: the flannel. This is the best option if you will end up freezing insufferably in the sandals-jeans- and t-shirt combo. Wearing jeans keeps your body much warmer and the sandals will help you cool off while walking to class. Tying a flannel around your waist is both fashionable and functional when you exit the icy tundra also known as West Hall.
Another combo for a warm day is exchanging the sandals for sneakers and the long jeans for shorts. Again, jeans keeps a larger portion of the body cooler, while the sneakers allow you to retain some heat in your feet.
Between the simple concepts of layering and these fashion collabs, beating the heat (and the cold) will no longer be such a challenge!
