Scoped! Style Edition
Harvard style, try as we might, is hard to pin down—so we decided to pin up these nine undergrad fashion mavens instead. Let their style speak for itself.
Kate E. Condon ’06
House: Quincy House
Concentration: History and Literature
Style Idol: Sorry, I’m an atheist.
My style in three words: A bit silly.
My style in one sentence: As my grandma says, “If it has someone else’s name on it, they’d better be paying me to wear it...especially if it’s ugly.”.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: Sturdy leather boots and a borrowed raincoat.
In 15 years I am wearing: The same boots. They should last.
Abdel Reid ’06
House: Adams
Concentration: Economics
Style icon: Hugh Hefner
My style in three words: Smooth, like water.
My style in one sentence: Refer to above.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: My bathrobe.
In 15 years I am wearing: Your wife’s bathrobe.
Amy F. Ng ’07
House: Eliot
Concentration: Economics / Pre-med
Style Idol: Gwen Stefani
My style in three words: Anything and everything.
My style in one sentence: You tell me, ’cuz I have no idea.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: My pajamas, hopefully.
In 15 years I am wearing: Scrubs, unfortunately.
R. Blake Stone ’06
House: Cabot
Concentration: Government
Style Idol: Andre 3000 meets Patrick Bateman
My style in three words: Unstudied rock swank.
My style in one sentence: It’s like sex; it’s nice to know that other people enjoy what I’m doing but, in the end, I’m just doing it for myself.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: A raincoat.
In 15 years I am wearing: A nicer raincoat.
Nicholas D.J. Henderson ’06
House: Currier
Concentration: Philosophy
Style Idol: David Beckham
My style in three words: Cobain meets Gatsby.
My style in one sentence: I like to mix the formal and the alternative to strike the optimal Zen balance between order and chaos.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: A tuxedo.
In 15 years I am wearing: A bathrobe.
Rachel S. Bolden-Kramer ’06
House: Dudley
Concentration: Social Studies
Style Idol: Diane N Ghogomu ’09
My style in three words: Bay Area Sunday.
My style in one sentence: If you saw it in stores and thought it looked too cheap or like it would never go together, I’m probably wearing it.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: $11 jeans, gold slippers, useless gold belt, childsize velour sweatshirt, and a handmade flower hair pin from the Ashby Flea Market.
In 15 years I am wearing: The same $11 jeans and all my own handmade originals.
Julia C. Chan ’06
House: Lowell
Concentration: History of Art and Architecture
Style Idols: Queen Elizabeth I and Milla Jovovich.
My style in three words: Boyish, borrowed, blasé.
My style in one sentence: No matter how awful I look and feel, I always have a good coat and a stellar bag to distract from the monster underneath.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: Wellie boots.
In 15 years I am wearing: Christian Louboutin’s “matadors” around my kitchen.
Rex G. Baker IV ’05-’06
House: Off-Campus
Concentration: Social Studies
Style idol: Really a toss-up between James Dean and Ronald Reagan.
My style in three words: One word: Brown.
My style in one sentence: The Kroks call it “homeless chic,” but I just call it “pretty recently washed.”
In 15 minutes I am wearing: A Coalition Provisional Authority sweatshirt.
In 15 years I am wearing: A jet-pack, like everybody else. It’s the future.
Tim H. Pierson ’06-’07
House: Adams
Concentration: Literature
Style Idol: Oscar Wilde gone straight and still just as loathsome
My style in three words: Vain.
My style in one sentence: Dorian Grey without all the cutesy bullshit.
In 15 minutes I am wearing: Really tight pants.
In 15 years I am wearing: Prosthetic testicles.