New York high school students gear up for the next academic year
2024-2025
New York high schoolers are getting ready for another school year, for the year 2024-2025; a year different than the previous. The students' back-to-school fashion is going to be hype. This surely is happening; a huge change in fashion will happen this year. New trends would emerge in high schoolers, and this would mark every high schooler's life and depart from the past, this year technology would catch up to their lives, social media would make its way to their life and clothes with sustainability is very fast approaching to kids life's. Aside from that, every year, there would be high schooler trends, which would be high in fashion, and that's every year but with a twist of imagination being added to it.
In recent years, the rapid development of technology has had a big influence on New York high schools. Nowadays, the number of New York high schools, which can equip all kinds of digital tools including laptops, tablets, smartphones and many more, is speedily increasing. Similarly, students themselves can make use of interactive online platforms and virtual classrooms to enhance their study in a relatively lower time-consumption and more convenient way. Moreover, some advanced artificial intelligence technologies are employed in the teaching sector, such as automatic grading of essays and solving assignments. Above that, students can join some extracurricular social activity groups and teams like coding clubs, robotics teams, and even digital arts schools.
These include Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, and often it actually comes from peer pressure (‘She says this app/clothing item is so last year’). YouTube videos, TikTok dances or trends, influencer reviews on what the ‘new best thing is’ and the Carousels that advertise ‘the hottest styles’ and ‘fit checks’ are all common sources of trends and the ways in which my high schoolers and middle schoolers are using these applications surrounds both their hunt for validation and attention, as well as their search for an identity (keeping connected to the other 70 percent of the youth who are also using their trends).
There is an additional factor to sustainability, which is that it has become a big trend in New York’s high schools: students are being more aware and more willing to buy sustainable and ethical fashion items such as thrift-store shopping, upcycling and wearing eco-label brands. What started as a trendy movement, spreading through school campaigns and sustainability clubs discussing the proper use of consumers’ ecological footprint and how to recycle fashion goods, eventually became a lifestyle and a mainstream culture in high schools.
The school life in 2024-2025 will inject some old tastes together with it. Extremely during 2021, the new fashion is moving back to the Y2K modes. Norms such as blanquette vests, square pocket pants, and non-conventional hairstyles will still be actively applied in the school. In addition, the athleisure trend remains blossoming, as more and more people enjoy wearing sports clothing daily. People breathe in more daily comfort. Its clothing can provide easiness and comfort. Some customization manners can also be in action, such as dry patches, personalized hand-sewing embroidery, and even cool prints. This will allow students to maximally unleash their creativity at school. Furthermore, the trend of gender-neutral fashion will become more remarkable. The development of the fashion industry will strongly support them and create room for each person to express themselves to the fullest extent.
From a Plains Indian house dress code to a changeable backpack, New York high schools reflect their students’ dynamic interaction of technological, social media and green thinking that influences their daily urban existence. Shopping for the new school year is a reflection of students’ lives and aspirations. Dress codes are expanding and changing to support growing diversity, but so is school-related product development.
