LETTER: Toss out the knitted headbands

To the editor:

I notice a pattern of fashion sweep over USU’s campus each year as winter fast approaches. The obvious are jeans replacing shorts, jackets and long sleeves that hide sun-browned shoulders, fewer flipflops are noticeable — except for you few brave souls who have the tenacity to show off your frost-bitten toes to the rest of us — and last, but certainly not least, girls’ heads become wrapped in giant, knitted head sweaters.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m assuming these “head sweaters” serve a sensible purpose, such as keeping one’s ears warm. However, it’s difficult to identify their use when all I notice are these things covering, not only ears, but entire faces, excluding a ponytail or two.

And what’s worse is that once inside, you girls refuse to take them off. This makes me question their use after all. Are they designed to keep ears warm or consume the entire upper-half of your body in the name of fashion?

My purpose in writing this letter is to point out that I do not understand the purpose of the head sweater, and also to say “Girls, you look stupid.” I mean that in the nicest way I could possibly put it.

Maybe, the majority of us are nowhere near graduating and about to embark on journeys toward hard-earned careers, but we are college students, and we are responsible for looking professional and acting the part of what we’re working toward.

I’m positive you’ll never wear a head sweater while teaching your seventh grade English class, preparing lab samples, giving immunizations, broadcasting a business proposal or simply sitting behind a desk configuring statistics — unless the figures represent a head-sweater count, of sorts.

In short, stop dressing like you’re 12 years old and start representing the person you want to be. Head sweaters are a small representation of how sloppy we look as college students. I could go on and on about how ridiculous it looks when we show up for class in sweats, slippers and giant fake flowers in our hair. The bottom line is everyone already knows this, and for some reason girls continue to persist.

Dress for success. Ditch the head sweaters.

Michel Funk