As the season shifts to winter, temperatures change and so do our outfits. Whether you want to dress up comfortably or warmly, stylish or fashionably, Senior, Angelyn Ly and Junior, Peter Manyvong have them all. Let’s peek inside what’s in their wardrobe and get a look on how they dress this winter.
Rummaging through her closet, Senior, Angelynn Ly decides to put together a winter outfit with a pop of color. Layered on her is a Carhart jacket, a crocheted beanie with three stripes on it, pink, red, and black, a pink polo knitted sweater, a black skirt, off-white leg warmers, chestnut Tazz Uggs, a pink, silk scarf, black glasses, and a grey velvet bag.
“Why I chose to put these clothes together was because I thought the colors went nicely together. I realized I had a lot of accessories that just fit with the pink and tan theme such as my hat, bag, scarf, and shoes,” Ly said.
90 percent of the time, she dresses for warmth and comfortability in appearance, but she still strives to be stylish through warmth and comfortability, her Pinterest feed helps her maintain this look. Through inspiration on Pinterest, thrifting and online shopping has become very popular in Ly’s closet.
“I usually find my clothes at thrift stores, online shops or old clothing from family members,” Ly said.
Most of these clothes were either gifted, thrifted, bought online, or bought in shops. Her sweater, hat, scarf, jacket, and bag were all gifts. Her necklace was bought at the Hmong Village in Saint Paul, Minnesota and her Uggs were bought at Journeys in Jordan Creek Mall, West Des Moines, glasses were thrifted, then lastly, her skirt and legwarmers were both bought online from SHEIN. All of these clothing choices combined together created the perfect winter outfit, it is cozy, stylish, pleasing to the eye, and comfortable.
Her wardrobe consists of random clothing like baggy shirts, tight fit shirts, cardigans, button ups, hoodies, crew necks, tank tops, baggy jeans, cargos, skirts, dresses, shorts, leggings, sweatpants, pjs, etc. To get a further look on inspiration of her wardrobe, stores you can find her shopping at is H&M and Forever 21, but even stores like Hollister, PacSun, Garage, American Eagle, Target, Walmart, Marshalls, and Ross. The best thrift stores she shops at are Many Hands Merle Hay, Goodwill, Salvation Army, Hope Ministries, and St. Vincent de Paul.
Ly’s fashion journey has come a long way, she has experience in her passion with fashion. At East High, they offer fashion design opportunities at Central Campus, interested in fashion, she took this opportunity to sign up for this class which she attended for one semester. In this program she learned the basics like how to sew and use a sewing machine, she even invested in a sewing machine of her own which she has at home. Ly did not continue with the program but by taking this class she learned how to sew and tailor her own clothes. Ly was also part of the Culture Night Fashion Show at East High School in the Spring of 2023. She is half Hmong and half Lao; she expressed her Hmong side of the culture and wore Hmong Traditional clothing to show representation of her culture and towards the beauty and diversity of East High School.
“I love clothing, and I love to see people with style, it inspires me to want to dress like that as well,” Ly said.
With this winter look, Ly hopes to inspire you.
Standing out, another student with a fashionable winter look has made an appearance. Junior, Peter Manyvong has showed up in style. For his winter look, he threw on a black hoodie with a grey jacket layered on top of it. Then to finish his outfit, he put on a faded dark wash jeans and Timberland boots.
“Honestly it a pretty-basic look, it was just really cold, and I didn’t want to look bad,” Manyvong said.
Manyvong also dresses for the comfortability and simplicity for winter. It was cold and he wanted to have a baggier look in which he created this outfit from his own creativity, and to be able to create these outfits you can mostly find Manyvong going thrifting or shopping online.
“I get most of my clothes thrifting and shopping online. I usually thrift or shop online for signature pieces, but for the basics I shop at H&M, and for jeans I shop online or go to Urban Outfitters but if I’m feeling baller I will shop at Goldeneye,” Manyvong said.
The parts of Manyvong clothing that were bought in stores were his faded dark wash pants from Urban Outfitters and his black hoodie bought at Old Navy. His Timberland boots were bought online and lastly his jacket was thrifted. All of these clothing choices combined together created the perfect winter outfit for Manyvong. It is Comfortable, simple, warm, and stylish.
“In my wardrobe I have lots of basics like blank tee shirts, blank hoodies, blank sweats, but also have some signature pieces. Since it’s colder outside I have pulled out the work jackets and puffers, with baggy jeans because baggy jeans are the best, and when it gets warmer, I pull out the graphics tees or jerseys with jorts, and I have too many clothes in my wardrobe I can’t count,” Manyvong said.
To get an idea of Manyvong’s wardrobe he suggests shopping at H&M, Uniqlo, Target, or go to any thrift store you can find. Otherwise, Old Navy, Urban Outfitters, and Golden Eye are a big part of Manyvong’s wardrobe. Consider shopping at these places.
Manyvong doesn’t have much experience in the fashion field, but he does find fashion inspiring.
“I believe in “if you look good you feel good,” Manyvong said.
His tips in fashion are being yourself and don’t care what other people think, Manyvong dresses to be himself and he doesn’t care about others’ opinions. He also experiments in fashion, in the past years, he wears what he likes but then he started experimenting with different clothing and branching out into different styles. Like what he said, “If you look good you feel good,” so it is good to have confidence in expressing what you wear.
“Fashion can be a huge confidence boost for me and anyone, fashion also helps me express my creativity to others without saying anything, fashion helps with getting to know others that have the same or different style to you,” Manyvong said.
With Manyvong’s Look of Winter, he hopes to inspire you.
