By Brittney Bruner

Philosophy professor Robert Urekew remembers his time as a student when his professor addressed the class: “you better be wearing a sport coat when you come into my classroom.”
“One day,” said Urekew, “a student came to class wearing only a sport coat and a jockstrap.”
When it comes to picking out appropriate clothes for class, some have a harder time than others.
Students lining the sidewalks on the University of Louisville’s campus don’t necessarily emulate the models cat-walking the runway during New York’s Fashion Week. However, for the most part, students don’t seem concerned with casting calls coming up for America’s Next Top Model.
 “It’s all about comfort during the week, and looking good on the weekends,” said sophomore exercise science major, Drew Melton. “Good luck catching me on campus in anything other than sweats during the winter months.”
Most students seem to share this same approach to their college wardrobe. Sophomore Lauren Schlosser, political science major, seems to agree with this perspective, summing up her fashion philosophy in one word: “sweatpants.”
“I love the pink collection from Victoria’s Secret or to just rock the Cards sweatshirt,” said Schlosser. “You’ve got to love getting dressed up too on the weekends- plain dress, leggings and fun jewelry are key.”
However, not everyone resorts to sweats when dragging to class. Some students, like junior marketing major Megan Powers, find that being prepared for class also includes having a suitable wardrobe.
“I wear jeans and tees or hoodies,” said Powers. “I try to look decent because I feel less productive if I don’t actually wear something other than what I would sleep in or wear to the gym.”
Regarding what he prefers to wear to class, junior Tyler Freiberger agrees with Powers’ idea that being comfortable and being fashionable don’t have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, for Freiberger, the two go hand in hand.
“It’s a different kind of comfort for me; I’m not really comfortable going to class unless I look professional,” said Freiberger. “In the fall [I’ll wear] some corduroys with a tweed jacket, a tie if I’m coming or going to work. Fall is the best season to have an excuse to layer vest and sweaters.”
Maintaining a sense of professionalism while in the classroom seems to be another approach students take when getting dressed in the morning. However, sometimes being comfortable for some is simply feeling good in their own skin.
“Overall, I’d like to think that I try to dress nice to class,” said junior political science major Brad Hall. “I feel the most ‘comfortable’ when I look presentable and generally that makes me feel good in my own skin.”
With most college students having at least a variation on these perspectives, there are others who lean more to the extreme end of the spectrum.
These extremes might qualify as those that seem to have just walked out of bed, still sleepy in their pajama bottoms, and those that have decided to stand a little taller today in their two inch heels.
Among countless infamous groups on the social networking tool known as Facebook are a couple of groups that pinpoint and sometimes attack the motives of those students that fall within these extremes.
“Are You a Model? No Wait, You’re an Idiot Who Got Dressed Up To Go To Class” and “Are You Homeless?  No You’re the Idiot Who Didn’t Get Dressed for Class” are just two of these opposing groups that are primarily concerned with the everyday dress of their fellow peers.
However, for the most part, students and professors alike seem generally unconcerned with what their own students and professors are wearing.
“I don’t particularly notice what students are wearing in class,” said Urekew. “Perhaps that means that I consider their attire to be reasonably appropriate.”