83 CommentsYou know the drill: you wear things we like, we take pictures of you! As Seen on College Walk marches on, despite frigid temperatures and slush.
Zhuoxi Lu, BC ’09, Barnard Gates
So you graduated a couple of years ago. What brings you back? I’m meeting up with a friend.
What was your major? Biology and psychology.
What do you miss most about Barnard/Columbia? I don’t know. I guess. . . nice professors!
What are you doing now? I go to Parsons for fashion marketing.
What will you be wearing this Valentine’s Day? Red shoes – red heels.
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Devon Stewart, BC ’11, College Walk
What’s your major? Women and Gender Studies with a Sexuality Studies concentration and a minor in Sociology.
Tell me about what you’re wearing. Leather jacket with raccoon fur collar. There’s nothing like animal skin to keep you warm. And thigh high black socks scrunched into black Chanel flats.
What’s something interesting you’ve read lately? I read something interesting about same-sex lover suicide for my queer theory class.
Ryan Gingry, CC ’11, Lerner Ramps
What’s your major? Political science.
What will you be wearing this Valentine’s Day? I’m going to do pink in a very creative, subtle way. I want you to be like, Oh! She’s wearing pink!
What’s the most interesting class you’ve taken here? The Twentieth Century in American Politics.
What do you like most about Columbia in the winter? Not as much as snow as in Chicago, so I can wear cute boots. I’m like, there’s a snow day? Seriously?
Hollie T., GS ’11, SW Corner of 116th and Broadway
What’s your major? Political science.
What will you be wearing this Valentine’s Day? I’m wearing these really cute platform red pumps with merlot tights [. . .] I like those two shades.
What’s your favorite class this semester? I would have to say Russia and the West – and it’s a class with Elise Giuliano. She’s the best professor.
What’s your favorite thing about winter at Columbia? Gosh . . . I would have to say the lights. Just really pretty.
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83 Comments
@-PLEASE- get a proper camera for these pictures.
A lot is lost when you take a bad picture, and if the outfit was shitty anyway, a nice picture might redeem it just a little, AT LEAST FOR OUR EYES.
@ugh still totally unimpressed.
@Anonymous Vegetarians = pompous
I don’t care how great you are because you don’t eat meat.
@awesome Ms. Lu looks super stoked!
@how much louder do i need to say this? TIGHTS /= PANTS!
http://blogs.glam.com/glamchic/files/2007/11/tights-not-pants.jpg
@LOL Devon’s major is the most Barnard thing I’ve ever seen.
Also, one cannot seen chiseled male athlete bodies through sweatpants, and BWOG should set up a deer stand on college walk to stalk PrezBo and get some fashion tips.
@amused Amen sister
@NOTICE To the poster who said they “can’t dress themselves” they all seem to have successfully put on clothing so I think they got it covered.
It’s funny that commenters seem to be taking this so personally. It’s fucking clothes, people! It’s not a grand moral statement. It must be terrible to go through life being horribly offended that people aren’t wearing the clothes you would like them to wear.
@like the previous post said-
everyone WANTS TO BE NOTICED
everyone would love to be featured “On College walk”
these girls are great
@Noel I think they all look great :). Totally loving Hollie’s jacket!
@Actually I am not Devon. I am an anthropology major. I don’t watch the flintstones. get your head out of your ash.
@To All Hypocrites There is no difference between this fur collar and the dead animal on your plate
@Anonymous If you started wearing an authentic chicken feather coat, I’d be more than of with it. I don’t know about you, but I don’t eat chinchilla, fox, or raccoon.
@Brilliant... except that most posters criticizing her are probably vegetarian!
@Cris These girls look good. At least they’re trying, which is more that can be said for 89.2% of the campus girls (who attend class in greasy bed hair and stretch pants). You’re supposed to have fun with fashion, not blend it with everybody else. These commenters are jealous that nobody stopped to take their photo or give them a second glance.
Don’t worry ’bout the haters.
@yeah, clothes are all about making girls more attractive to men. That’s why we wear clothes.
@columbia man you’ve got it.
@sporkle Do you know what I’m really fascinated and challenged by?
All these posts where the writer seems compelled to enter
almost at random
like
a poem.
it makes me wonder if this is
just how the internet has decided to talk now
or whether it is simply
the same person
over and over
again
@are there stylish faculty- ” on college walk” ????/
My guess is that some of the profs should be included
as well
Also- maybe have a section on stylish hats, or scarves or just focus on 1 item of clothing.
The questions really make the column
its the combo- the questions and the people featured.
keep it up BWOG- this column is a keeper
@Actually I really love Zhuoxi’s outfit. Great shape, simple, and chic. The bag offers some much-needed color, and I’d love to see some red lipstick on her.
The minimalist in me gags at all the others, though.
@yes! I love her outfit! A+++ seller- highly recommended!
@no boys featured on fashion walk
Aren’t there any stylish columbia guys
we know there are
just check out the personals
@on fashion walk is doing a great job
This is the only post to get so many responses.
Isn’t that the whole idea.
People love to read about themselves.
Look how successful the personals were
And also look how many people love to read the room hop..
face it columbia people- you just love to read about yourselves.
keep it up bwog- you have identified what people like
@disgruntled not one of those students featured can actually dress themselves to save their lives. fun to read and critique i guess
@surfin' UWS lol, are you so insecure that you need to oh-so obviously backpat yourself with compliments to your fashion sense on an anonymous blog? Really?
@Anonymous The first girl needs to pose in a way that doesn’t say “I just wet the bed, and now my parents are yelling at me.” If she tried something other than the awkward asian pose, we might be able to appreciate her clothing. From what I can gather, she needs some color with this mix, and she needs to get away from being so matchy-matchy with those go-go boots. A bright colored scarf and a nice red birkin would make this outfit much better, and some different boots would go a long way.
The travesty of the second girl isn’t that she’s wearing fur; rather, her faux pas lies in the fact that the fur collar too closely resembles her afro. Everything from her chest to her knees is fine, but the flats/sock combination is awful. Who the fuck cares that your shoes are from Chanel, considering that her 80s socks fashion choice managed to fug them all up? She just needs to go to payless and buy some healed boots…and I pray that she’s not as annoying as she came off in this interview.
For the third girl, it’s a nice and appropriate outfit, but there isn’t a wow factor. The one thing wrong with this outfit is that awful scarf. The scarf turned a cute girl into an aged Barnard professor in an instant. However, I give her props for being able to rock short hair.
As for the fourth girl…you’ve got to be kidding me. Moon boots have the ability to make uggs look sexy, and I don’t know who deserves more of a lashing, the people who invented these “boots” or the morons dumb enough to buy them. As for that awful jacket, she is definitely taking fashion points from last week’s golden girls-inspired, furry freak show. One word: AWFUL. The hat just adds the perfect final touch by completing this fashion cluster fuck, and by hitting the streets in this outfit, she is simply saying to the world, “I don’t own a mirror.”
@is this diatre?
@This is the... funniest post yet!
Bwog would do well to photograph girls in furs and hipsters. It really gets the community going. That said, Devon is exactly the kind of dopey, pseudo-intellectual that gives Barnard a bad name. Wearing a jacket that looks like your own hair is just a bonus.
@u ain't that cool, hoe that pose is awkward. it’s not *asian* any more than my tendency to get lost in greenwich is polish
@THIS IS HILARIOUS.
If only because of how righteously outraged it is.
@colt 45 haha yes, because everybody has two grand to plunk down on a birkin bag.
i love this school!
@Anonymous Is the last person meant to be a joke?
@Man, I love these posts more for the comments than the outfits.
@Anonymous Also, Zhuoxi’s outfit was nothing special, just white boots and a white coat. Everything just looks very ‘asian’ for some reason, like from asia asian, and i don’t even mean that in a bad way.
Devon’s jacket is nice, i like the belt. Kinda weird that it’s leather and down though and i’m not a huge fan of the color. le sportsac bag is bringing it down. also not a fan of the sloppy scarf that doesn’t look effortless, just looks sloppy. black leggings, black socks rolled down like a modern 80s legwarmer concept and black flats is completely uninteresting. Also the flats throw off the proportions and the whole thing tapers weird. the top half looks good though with the effect of the fur collar and her hair.
Ryan has good layering, just a bit basic. The scarf is a nice touch of color but makes no sense outside the coat, i think it would look nicer and balance out the flowyness of the dress (i like the print) if it were inside the coat. Overall a nice basic outfit with good color use.
Hollie, i have no idea what possessed you to wear white moonboots in the first place and i have no idea what possessed you to match those white moonboots with a weird white 80s b boy jacket concept with a tonally matched grey hood. I guess since you matched the jacket and the boots it would only make sense to wear a matching beret thing with a poofy matching top fluff. The blue gloves throw it off and the jacket kind of looks like wrinkly old skin in a completely unflattering cut and a weird material. Also, the bag doesn’t match anything.
None of it (except the abominable snowwoman) is particularly bad, just none of it is inspiring or note worthy. There aren’t even interesting individual pieces, but I’d have to say that Ryan and Devon did the best.
@Winter I think this is just a bad time of year to be doing fashion posts… Especially outside, what?! Everyone is just trying to layer on, not really worrying about how fashionable they look. When it gets warmer people’s sense of style really comes out.
@Anonymous no, when it gets warm you can’t layer as much and your ‘outfit’ becomes a sundress and wayfarers or shorts and a tshirt/polo to keep from sweating to death after walking up 6 flights of stairs in hamilton only to find that the heaters are accidentally stuck in the ‘on’ position. summer clothes suck, layering ftw.
@Pacific Ocean Native agreed. although summer clothes don’t suck entirely. Sun-dresses can be quite the spectacle.
@Anonymous If girls just understood that ‘wearing a sundress’ is one of the single most attractive states of being (clothed and unclothed), the world would be a better place when it got warmer.
@Pacific Ocean Native Too much talk about red and pink, and so little to show for it. While it was disappointing not to catch a glimpse of Valentine’s Day fashion, were these really the 4 most interesting people around campus this past week? Columbia should be better represented in the fashion department. Hopefully the rest of the college fashion world online will take this week’s “As Seen on College Walk” with a grain of salt.
@Jeffrey D. Bwog needs to interview someone that will really strike up some controversy. Someone who takes risks and wears a dangerous outfit. The most dangerous outfit.
@Hahahaa Tell me I’m not the only one that got this joke.
@GET IT HUMAN SKIN HAHAHAHA THE PERSON MEANT HUMAN SKIN…
yes we all got it.. it was funny but your post made me wanna gouge out my eyeballs with spoons
@birthday suit birthday suits. or MJ homage: http://threadforthought.net/oldimages/2009/07/michael-jackson-in-gold-lame-with-leather-buckles-catcher-kneepads-in-history-tour-1992-prague.jpg
from the dangerous tour!
@wow guess everyone be hatin on Devon. Chanel flats? raccoon fur and leather jacket? goddamn. Maybe i should walk around with my fox fur (complete with the fox head) on campus and strike up some controversy.
@well i don’t know her, but i thought devon looked really good!! jealous girls keep hatin’
@Anonymous Okay the last two posts gave themselves away by the use of “hatin”. STFU.
@HA! In other news, the Asian girl got off pretty easy. She looks like she’s being kidnapped.
@Anonymous She looks like a cutie.
@what? did anyone else read that ^ and imagine a guy with a van and too much candy?
@um actually, the other one isn’t me. it’s not like no one else has even used the word hatin’. chill.
@Haha! The next time Devon drones on in class, someone please tell her to shut her raccoon hole.
@anonymous I know Devon and she is pretty much the most annoying person ever. And this is one of her tamer outfits.
@Anonymous true that…beyond annoying
@yerpp i don’t even know her and i’m about ready to call it quits on our imaginary friendship
@the buck stops here assuming the above is pointed sarcasm, then yes, let’s stop hating on Devon. her comments are totally benign – i don’t see how you could get all that negativity out of such a short little interview. these are just cowards who are too scared to call her out in class, using bwog to publicly humiliate her. come on, people. act your age!
@Hey Devon
@... agreed. she sounds like the kind of barnard girl that makes me dislike the school itself.
@meh if i’ve eaten the animal, i should be allowed to wear its fur.
otherwise, it is just being wasteful.
@Anonymous yeah, I hope that raccoon tasted good
@sporkle That raccoon tasted like your mom.
@Uh... If you’re referring to hunting, yes. I have no problem with you tracking, trapping, and slaughtering a Burlington Coat Factory leather-raccoon-monster. You caught that shit; eat up.
But, if you’re referring to the right to wear raccoon fur because you eat animal protein for dinner, you’re a fucking stooge.
@Anonymous This feature is a keeper
fun to read
great pics and interviews
who are the writers???
@Why is she dumb for wearing fur? It’s how our ancestors survived. You wouldn’t be here to make your trite self-righteous comments if it weren’t for human beings wearing animal fur.
I
@... Shut up, Devon.
You’ve been watching too much of the Flintstones.
@colt 45 there’s a big, big ethical gap between hunting sentient beings for survival and torturing/killing them for profit.
it’s cruel, it’s unnecessary, and – thanks to the folks who invented Thinsulate – archaic. it’s time to move on.
@This is the first of these fashion postings to feature well-dressed (if seemingly a bit vacuous) people. So quotes aside, mission accomplished, bwog.
@Tyra-wannabe All the outfits look rather sloppy. Or maybe they just suck at posing.
The guys on campus can do much better. Even the male athletes make sweatpants and tees look good on their chiseled bodies.
@Anonymous Thanks for your input, male athlete
@Frustrated Gay Wrestler Okay, let’s hit the showers!
@Really, Devon? “There’s nothing like animal skin to keep you warm.”
I’m sure that the raccoon shared this sentiment. The only time it was okay to wear fur on a college campus was during 1920s Bugs Bunny cartoons. Now, you just look as dumb as you sound.
@Anonymous it seems to me she’s just bored and wants to be controversial
@Maybe? I have a class with her. She hardly seems bright enough to be purposely controversial.
@Anonymous ha
@well Animal skin is quite warm. What do you think women in Russia wear nearly every day for most of the year?
… hundreds of thousands of years of proof can’t be wrong. to hell with PETA.
@Well... I guess that depends where, in Russia, they live. Unless, by “Russia” you mean a place that you think is cold, or something, oh, wait, there’s something shiny over there!
@BurntOrange oh shut up, fur looks good, feels good, and killing other animals for personal gain is something animals have done since the beginning of time.
Besides, wearing my coat with coyote fur on the hood is like revenge for them killing my brothers cat!
@Ugh. I’m going to start wearing a clown nose around campus as revenge for your failed logic.
@Huge Win
@Ew I think Devon’s quotes just devalued my degree.
@Wow Nice job weeding out the hipsters in this one. Keep it up bwog.
@A Queer Theory I may be failing my informal Sexuality Studies concentration, but at least I don’t wear fur.
@Anonymous That’s too bad. It’s actually very warm and comfortable.
@seas kid you might not wear fur, but i bet your wear leather–shoes, jacket, wallet, wristwatch, purse? leather and fur are one in the same.