‘But we have no uniform!!’ It’s a major selling point of the WHS sixth form versus the suited-and-booted Kings’ sixth form. False, we do. Every sixth former you encounter will be wearing one of these looks.
The ‘Basically pyjamas’
- Trackies
- Giant T-shirt
- Giant-er hoodie
- Slightly dead eyes
The ‘actually pyjamas’, aka Year 12 on October 1st
- For legal reasons I don’t think I’m allowed to endorse it
- Clearly against dress code
- Don’t think I have ever or will ever again see this much year group solidarity
- It was a bit iconic
The ‘Sorry I lost my orange colour-coded lanyard’
- Just in case you mistook a sixth former for a very tall year seven who is mysteriously wearing a sweater vest and cargo pants rather than her uniform
The ‘school dress up day’
- Normal clothing
- Picture on your phone of whoever you’re supposedly dressed as lest anyone question your integrity
- ‘she has a grey top. I also have a grey top. What’s your problem?’
The ‘white person on heritage dress up day’
- England/European football shirt or bust
- Sheepish face
The ‘Eleni Vasati’
- Entire stock of urban outfitters
- Will not be caught dead outfit-repeating
- One piercing for every quarter-life crisis
- One new haircut/dye for every eighth-life crisis
- Fashion influencer or the aforementioned ‘basically pyjamas’: there is no in between.
The ‘Saskia Robbins’
- This is actually a Year 11 throwback because the lucky GCSE exam outfit had to be mentioned
- Stripy culottes
- Little white top
- Hair in a bun to stimulate blood flow to the brain area
The ‘Anna Duncan’
- Huge collection of university jumpers
- One of which requires the disclaimer ‘no, I’m not a Mormon’
- The iconic big blue earrings
The ‘Annabel Walsh’
- Chunky docs
- With funky socks
- Maybe some checked or stripy trousers
- Enough giant history textbooks to concuss someone if need be
The ‘Neferu Kaliyeva’
- The boots!
- The coats!
- The hair!
- If anyone needs to get to the top of the STEAM Tower urgently, Neferu could probably Rapunzel this sitch
The ‘Alice Politi’
- Worm-on-string earrings
- I can’t say any more because as editor she has to proofread this mess
- I repeat, worm-on-string earrings
- Hair inspo: Mr Brewer, for those of you that remember him.
A moment to acknowledge some things that aren’t outfits exactly. The word I’m searching for is… accessories? Props? Personality traits?
- Lucy Fothergill’s four or five beverages, all in reusable bottles (#environmentrep), all carried at the same time. Like a PG-13 round of shots.
- Izzy Jeeves’s four or five hundred bags. I still don’t know what’s in most of them
- The giant folders of the A-level artists
- The Pret bag, which is a way better symbol than an expensive handbag of the treat yourself mentality
