ACROSS
1 The Miners of the
Lone Star St.
5 Eurasia’s __
Mountains
9 Fundraising gps.
13 Caesar’s France
14 Marner of fiction
16 Hindustani
language
17 What Dobermans
do for dinner?
19 Innocent
20 Retro wall unit
21 Titanic undoing
23 Not very bright
24 Super-cold
concoction at
Baskin-Robbins?
28 Yale alum
31 Longtime
Yankees
announcer __
Allen
32 First to play
James
33 Tall and lean
35 “Sadly ... ”
38 Box
41 World’s
stealthiest
detective?
44 Got out of bed
45 “So __ say”
46 Crowd-sourced
review site
47 Asian takeout
option
49 Little trickster
51 See 56-Down
52 Cutest Baby
contest
champion?
57 Security briefing
org.
58 Clothing part that
might split
59 Epic tales
63 Singer James
65 Massage
epiphany?
68 Agenda detail
69 Gets mud on
70 Phi __ Kappa
71 Banks of 2000s
TV talk
72 Doing business
73 “The Osbournes”
patriarch

DOWN
1 Brand of
sheepskin boots

2 Biting
3 Italian capital
4 Fallback option
5 __ Today
6 Tease
7 “I was out of
town,” e.g.
8 Approach
midnight
9 Place to hoist a
pint
10 DBA followers
11 Madison Ave. field
12 In-your-face
challenge
15 Feudal laborers
18 Protective barrier
22 El __
25 Authentic
26 Dole out
27 Like birds with
worms, so it’s
said
28 Designer
Schiaparelli
29 Cowardly Lion
portrayer
30 Facing serious
trouble
34 Singer who
formerly stylized
her name with a
dollar sign

36 “__ du lieber!”
37 Yarn purchase
39 Squeal
40 Catch sight of
42 Raises
43 Many a gospel
song
48 Brainstorms
50 Uruguayan
money
52 Nail a test
53 Like Oscar 
Wilde

54 Mackerel relative
55 Beatnik’s “With
ya”
56 Repeating movie
role for 
51-Across
60 “Sheesh!”
61 Animated bug
film
62 Time at a hotel
64 Org. for docs
66 Pint to drink
67 AOL alternative

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Style
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Instagram stars dressed 
by and for the internet age

hypebeast // Instagram

Promoting personal brand in a digital community that 
promotes copy-cat culture in order to join ‘The Culture’

In “Orlando” by Virginia 

Woolf, she writes: “There is 
much to support the view that 
it is clothes that wear us, and 
not we, them; we may make 
them take the mould of arm 
or breast, but they mould our 
hearts, our brains, our tongues 
to their liking.”

That’s a quote that has 

stuck with me for a long time. 
Where the likes of David 
Bowie and Keith Richards 
have 
defined 
what’s 
now 

known as the rock ‘n’ roll 
aesthetic, others wear the garb 
in an aspirational sense. When 
skaters wore Thrasher to show 
their support of subcultural 
publications, others donned 
the hoodies once they hit the 
mainstream. Nowadays, style 
is trending towards a sense of 
conformity. I think the biggest 
culprit for the proliferation of 
unoriginality is Instagram.

Instagram is a wonderful 

platform for the dissemination 

of fashion. Through Instagram 
I have connected with people 
from all over the world with an 
interest in fashion, and some 
of these people have become 
close friends. I sometimes 
find myself spending more 
time messaging people from 
these fashion groups than my 
best friends from high school 
— not because we’re better 
friends, but because we finally 
have a platform where we can 
nerd out about fashion. It’s 
something that I craved for the 
longest time: Finding people 
who were equally passionate 
about clothing.

When I found platforms like 

Instagram and Reddit that let 
me connect with both lifelong 
friends and strangers, I was 
hooked. At the same time, the 
thirst for Instagram success 
is not a foreign concept; there 
are countless articles outlining 
the twelve-step program for 
gaining followers. For some 
it’s a way of making money, but 
for most it’s simply driven by 
a desire to share content with 
similarly-interested 
people 

and to feast in the likes and 
followers.

When I really started to 

spend 
time 
on 
Instagram, 

exploring different fashion-
related hashtags and accounts, 
I had the realization that 
people love to dress the same 
way. That’s not necessarily 
to say that the exact outfit is 
replicated by dozens, if not 
hundreds, of people, but that 
a certain, paint-by-numbers 
approach is taken to fashion. 
The people you see under 
the 
tag 
#thefeargeneration 

dress up in Jerry Lorenzo 
cosplay, while a search of the 
#supremenewyork 
tag 
will 

yield enough box-logo hoodies 
to put a salty taste in your 
mouth for coming up empty on 
the last drop. The thing is that 
there are people who will post 
outfits that deviate from the 
cookie-cutter 
aesthetic, 
but 

the problem with Instagram is 
the fact that these photos don’t 
get as many likes, comments 
or lead to as many followers 
as simpler outfits. It’s difficult 
for anyone who is motivated 

by internet fame to push 
boundaries because it won’t 
lead to the same success as 
sticking with what works.

I think this overlooks a key 

point, which is the fact that 
many people know that they 
want to dress well or dress in 
a certain way but don’t know 
how to achieve that aesthetic. 
It’s very easy to look to a 
person whose fashion sense 
has been applauded by the 
masses 
on 
Instagram 
and 

work to emulate it at the start. 
Once someone is comfortable 
with their new look, they will 
begin to post their own fits to 
the Internet. From there, it’s 
undeniable that many people 
like the self-gratification of 
knowing that well-established 
fashion accounts are dressing 
like them, so they are more 
likely to follow accounts and 
like photos that reaffirm their 

fashion choices.

From here the cycle begins 

again: Someone looking to 
begin to define their style 
will look up to more well-
established users for tips and 
tricks. Because these users 
know that the more avant-
garde outfits aren’t going to 
give them sufficient exposure, 
they will continue to post 
basic outfits to Instagram, 
which will once again inspire 
someone who is just getting 
into 
fashion, 
which 
will 

increase the body of people 
who are focused on a certain 
look. All of this boils down 
to the fact that so long as 
people are driven by likes and 
followers, which isn’t likely to 
stop anytime soon, the current 
state of Instagram fashion 
is going to stagnate for the 
foreseeable future.

French women and the 
myth of ‘effortlessness’

Vogue // Instagram

This 
past 
week 
as 
Paris 

shuttered Fashion Month I was 
greeted with a barrage of French 
girl-related headlines from nearly 
every sartorial news outlet. Said 
headlines ranged from inane 
(“French Girls Do Everything 
Better, Even Instagram (And 
It’s Because They Don’t Care)”) 
to absolutely eye-roll inducing 
(“Confirmed: French Girls Love 
the Underwear You Hate”). Vogue 
even went as far as to publish an 
article titled “Are French Girls the 
Only Ones We Should Look to for 
Style Advice?” on their Snapchat, 
which quoted this sage insight 
from fashion writer Elizabeth 
Hawes: “There is no word in 
English for chic. Why should there 
be? Everything chic is by legend 
French. Perhaps everything chic 
is in reality French.” 

This is, of course, blatantly 

false. The French do not hold 
claim on chicness, and they most 
definitely are not the only ones 
with a word for it. Just because 
the word “chic” is French in 
origin does not mean it is not also 
very much part of the English 
lexicon. Analogously, the word 
“restaurant” is likewise French, 
but no one would ever assert 
that we do not have a word for it 
in English. Factual inaccuracies 
aside, I find this deification of 
the French woman and her style 
irksome.

 French style stereotypically 

diverges 
from 
American’s 

primarily in the application of 
effort. The French girl mindlessly 
tousles her hair, her skin both 
unblemished by makeup and 
stunningly clear. Her outfit is 
marked by its simplicity, perhaps 
just a sweater, trousers and heels 
— everything tailored impeccably. 
Conversely, the American girl 
twirls a loose strand of her 
blowout, her words framed by 
an undaunted shade of lipstick. 
Her body is wrapped in layered 
garments. These tropes both look 
perfect — but only the American 
seems to have tried.

I have nothing against French 

style. I find their minimalism 
elegant, 
and, 
despite 
advice 

from friends, I have been on the 
hunt for a good beret for some 
time. Not to mention, there is 
something undeniably alluring 
about the idea that you can look 
great while “undone.” What I 
find bothersome is the vilification 
of effort. The recurring motif in 
all these articles is that French 
women are superior to American 
counterparts because they do not 
try. 

Perhaps my annoyance is a 

pervasion of my own personal 
insecurities. 
I 
was 
first 

introduced to the term “try-hard” 
when I was 13-years-old by an 
identically-aged boy. He used the 
term frequently, each time with 
disgust. I was not entirely sure 
what a try-hard was, but I knew 
it was the absolute worst thing 

to be. Thankfully, I was spared 
the awareness that the loser who 
he was describing was, in fact, 
me. I have been the Hermione in 
Snape’s inaugural potions class 
(me: Hand eagerly erect, teacher: 
Anyone? Anyone?) multiple times. 
Granted, 
the 
aforementioned 

scene is the apex of my try-hard-
ness — usually I am much more 
mellow. Still, my accolades are 
almost invariably coupled with 
effort.

So, yes, I am bugged by lazy 

journalism 
that 
propagates 

the superiority of French style. 
French women are gloriously chic, 
and there’s nothing wrong with 
modeling your style after them, 
but they are not the sun upon 
which the sartorial solar system 
rotates. If you love fashion the 
fun is often in the effort. I enjoy 
the sometimes 30 minutes it takes 
me to get dressed, “outfit testing” 
as I dance about to pop music. 
And after I’ve finally settled on 
an outfit, I want to look perfect; I 
want you to take note of my outfit 
and know that I tried. 

The idea that your outfit would 

be improved with less effort is 
offensive — your trouble merits 
appreciation. It shows you care 
and it’s indicative of prowess. 
What’s more: Don’t believe for a 
second those French women don’t 
apply themselves. Of course they 
do, they just double their effort 
simply to make it seem as if they 
didn’t. Don’t fall for the farce. 
You’re pretty cool, too; don’t let 
anyone tell you any different.

NARESH IYANGAR

Daily Arts Writer

TESS TOBIN
Daily Arts Writer

Nowadays, 

style is trending 
towards a sense of 

conformity

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