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No more pajamas: Back-to-school fashion gives students a sense of hope after pandemic

Like many L.A. teens, 17-year-old Sheccid Vazquez spent the last year in pajamas.

“During quarantine, I would wake up and stay in my pajamas until the end of school,” said the Ramona Convent Secondary School senior. “I wouldn’t change because teachers gave us the option not to turn our cameras on.”

But with high school campuses reopening across L.A. County — including all last week at the Los Angeles Unified School District — teens are redefining back-to-school wardrobe, shedding their remote-learning loungewear and constricting before-times ensembles for innovative and eye-catching new looks.

“I definitely had a lot of time on my hands, so I went deeper into fashion,” Vazquez said. “I wanted to have a whole aesthetic for what I wear. For the return, I want to make the best of it.”

Experts have been predicting a post-pandemic style shift since at least April 2020. But this spring’s back-to-school season has become something of a test case for how that future might look. If quarantine was a cocoon, what would emerge? A butterfly or a moth?

The answer, if this spring’s back-to-school season is any indication, may be a little bit of both.

“I’m seeing a splintering of what’s considered performative fashion on social media and what is actually conducive to post-pandemic life,” said Raissa Bretaña, a fashion historian and a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “There will be a reckoning with comfort, but I think that ... people will be excited to dress up and show off.”


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