Love your insight on exactly what is so irksome about Rory's college years clothes! It's easy to imagine keeping the "beautiful actress suspension of disbelief" with the sweaters of her high school days, Yale sweatshirts, band t-shirts and the Urban Outfitter "funny" t-shirts I believe we wearing back then.
It's interesting to reflect on Rory's clothes, and to compare them to what I would have worn in college. I was in college in the 2010s, so after Rory, but in possibly an even more casual era, though not as casual as the one we're in now. I didn't wear makeup or do anything fancy with my hair, and I didn't dress up quite as much as she does here, but I did wear coordinated outfits with jewelry every day! (Usually nice jeans or shorts on the bottom, except for pin attire Mondays for my sorority, which I secretly loved even though everyone else hated them. I was sad when they moved to only once a month my senior year!) I, like Rory, was an intensely academic and very busy college student, but I just liked clothes. I do agree that it's out of character for her, but those well-dressed college kids exist!
Now I work from home and wear jeans on a good day. Sweatpants are more common. I kind of missing dressing up for class, but not enough to get a job where I have to go into an office!
Love your insight on exactly what is so irksome about Rory's college years clothes! It's easy to imagine keeping the "beautiful actress suspension of disbelief" with the sweaters of her high school days, Yale sweatshirts, band t-shirts and the Urban Outfitter "funny" t-shirts I believe we wearing back then.
It's interesting to reflect on Rory's clothes, and to compare them to what I would have worn in college. I was in college in the 2010s, so after Rory, but in possibly an even more casual era, though not as casual as the one we're in now. I didn't wear makeup or do anything fancy with my hair, and I didn't dress up quite as much as she does here, but I did wear coordinated outfits with jewelry every day! (Usually nice jeans or shorts on the bottom, except for pin attire Mondays for my sorority, which I secretly loved even though everyone else hated them. I was sad when they moved to only once a month my senior year!) I, like Rory, was an intensely academic and very busy college student, but I just liked clothes. I do agree that it's out of character for her, but those well-dressed college kids exist!
Now I work from home and wear jeans on a good day. Sweatpants are more common. I kind of missing dressing up for class, but not enough to get a job where I have to go into an office!