Personal Style - As Seen At Vassar

This is a series inspired by my fellow students at Vassar College. A part of my project that will analyze personal style within Vassar culture, its definition and its message/impact on the wearer and the observer.

For the first segment of this series I plan to look at clothing as a feminist/political statement. This segment features Georgia Kerr, a freshman at Vassar college, as she expresses her personal style, and what she tries to communicate with her clothes. 

One of the first questions we discussed was "What can clothing say?". We talked about the various different elements clothing is able to expand upon, like personality and personal preferences.  "It can say anything about you," Georgia explained, expressing the unlimited capabilities of clothes.

Well, what about functionality? Georgia mentioned her love of showing skin, and the question I posed was: For you, is showing a lot of skin comfort or political?

"I think it's a little bit of both," Georgia responded "Part of it is me trying to make a statement of like 'say something I you dare' and kind of like I like myself so why not show it off in the way that I would want to. Everyone shows off what they like about themselves in different ways, and for me I like wearing shorts and crops tops. It makes me more comfortable".