Senior jeans is a trend spreading through high schools across the nation, with combinations of both jeans and overalls. You need to buy materials to decorate these homemade jeans, which can cost some people hundreds of dollars, going all out to have the best jeans.
It causes unity before senior year as senior girls gather together in order to decorate their jeans in the community. My friends and I got together to spend hours working on our senior jeans the day after orientation. This was a great way to kick off our last and best year of high school.
We talked to some seniors, one girl who did overalls said she picked overalls since, “I figured that’s what everyone would do,” as for the other girl, she said, ” I just picked jeans that I never wear anymore to decorate.”
One of the girls mentioned that her senior jeans only took three days, the first being to outline everything, the second day to do the front decorations, and the third to do the back, which took longer than the front. However, when talking to another student, hers took her three weeks, and she and her mom were both working on them in all their spare time.
Most people’s wording, which we concluded through interviews, on their jeans consisted of Senior, year of graduation, which in our case is 2026, their last name, first name, and mascot or other designs.
One girl put on an entire leg a realistic-looking tiger; her process took three days. Her inspiration came from a senior last year who had a little tiger on their pants, and she decided, due to her love of fashion, to do a whole one on the entire leg.
This tradition here at Holy Family is mainly worn by the girls; the boys rarely participate, which is uncommon because some other schools have both genders participating.
