Peoria High School - Crest Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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weeds and plaids. The Preppy style prov- d to be Awesome in high school social xircles. With the appearance of preppy so came fhe anti-preppys. There's no method to :heir madness. They simply wear what is Fomfortable. Most anti-preppys revolt pginst the uniformity of the preppys. . Designers' names seemed to appear on lust about everything this year. Designer s synonymous with Vogue and expen- ive. Calvin Klein proved to be the designer of the day. And simply styled Elothes in the earth tones rounded out the range of designer fashions. t has been commented that the youth of today seem to put much more emphasis on their clothes than those of the 60's and 70's. Whether this statement is true seems of little consequence to teenagers because to them appearances are a big part of high School life. By Brenda Heard and Dan Plunkett NCES Below: Carol Wagner and Renee Sanders get a bite out of punk. Right: To each his own Pheel Goin finds radical opposition to conser- vatism in a chance meeting with Kristin Hardy. l Left: Classroom activities provide for a variety of dress and a mixture of cultures as shown by Wade Crabel and Cindy Rohror. Right: Anti- Izod is depicted here by Tim Carey. Student Life 13

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l Below: Gerritt Van Beck finds a date out of this world or is Gerritt out of this world? Ger- ritt is dressed in today's new wave style, while his date,Missy Davis, sports the newest in designer dress. Together they make the couple of the future. Above: Missy joins Ken Snow and Kim Herman in a mid-day rendezvous. 12 Student Life Our fashion day at school brought a definite trend towards the new wave or punk styles. Although punk is not a com- mon occurrence at school during the week-it could be a prediction of fashions in the future at P.H.S. There are no strict guidelines in new wave dress-Anything Goes! Perhaps this is why it attracts so many free spirits. Western is another alternative dressing style available to the adventurous. The movie Urban Cowboy and the resurgence of Country-Western music has. helped to bring this style into popularity. Western can be seen everyday in the halls ranging from cowboy boots to flannel shirts and denim skirts. Preppy is the most prevalent style andl teenagers of 1982 can't help but to be preppy. Just about every shirt has an extra button or two around the neck. Alligators crept on to many shirts this season but plo-players made an attack to drive them off. The English conservative styles in- fluenced preppy the most with the use of Above: Sophs Leslie Boyle and Io Vieley ride 'em cowboy! Above right: Seniors are Preppy and Proud! Sue Mitzi Bateman and Io Buf- fy Hartwig sport knickers while Brian Biff Riley and Pheel Skippy Goin prefer Izod. Helen Trish Umberger enjoys the popular sweater, skirt and boot combinations. Xl W . li .lnunal -. -1 Q fi PPEAR

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