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Remember putting on your pink princess dress and tiara?  And then sitting down to a pink and purple table topped with plastic china and sparkly Cinderella tea cups?  Well, Bre Bradshaw ‘18 doesn’t.

“Actually, I was a huge tomboy, so I didn’t wear a lot of girly clothes at all,” she said.

But as her single-digit years came to a close, her interest in fashion started to blossom.

“I think once I got into seventh grade, and especially eighth grade, I started experimenting a lot more with fashion,” Bradshaw said.

“Bre’s style has more of a grunge look and she pulls that off really well, she’ll wear lots of different patterns, but for the most part sticks with a color scheme,” wrote Kia Noibi ‘18.  “I’ve really liked her flowy patterned shorts.”

But branching out and experimenting hasn’t come without its drawbacks.

“I definitely think [I was unsure about wearing certain clothes] because of who I was kind of friends with in elementary school,” said Bradshaw.  “You want to [be] like, ‘Oh what are you wearing to this?’ and I wouldn’t want to look out of place.  But honestly, it doesn’t matter at all.”

Bradshaw encourages others who may hold back from wearing what they want.

“At West, we have like 2000 kids.  As long as you’re comfortable with what you wear, it honestly doesn’t matter.  No one’s going to notice.  You can wear pajama pants to school every single day and nobody would even notice,” she said.  “And I feel like it’s really important to have that self confidence, so if you’re comfortable and other people try to like tell you that you don’t look good in what you’re wearing, it’s not about them, it’s about you.”

“[Bradshaw wears] what is comfortable but [she seems] to make it look nice every single time,” said Sadie Rhomberg ‘18.

But Bradshaw doesn’t necessarily think people need to wear pajama pants everyday.

“I think that you’re changing as a person, and that as you change, I dress on basically what I feel, so, I mean, you’re not going to feel the same way every single day.  I don’t think that it’s good to [wear the same thing everyday],” she said.

Bradshaw realizes, though, that fashion may not be everybody’s cup of tea.

“Fashion’s not for everyone.  Definitely, if that’s the way you think you can express yourself, then go for it and just wear whatever makes you feel comfortable.  But, for a lot of people, that’s just not something that they care about,” she said.  “But if you’re trying to get into it, I would say start with a lot of staples, maybe like a denim button up or black pants, and just build from there.  And don’t shop expensively.  You can find a v-neck anywhere for like three dollars and you can just build around that and find a lot of outfits around it.”