Even when I'm clean and relatively well dressed, people tell me I look like a student (total strangers volunteer this information, in fact). Without deliberately trying to make myself look older, how can I stop myself from looking like a student?
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Carmella
ANSWERS: 2
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First of all lose the backpack and the Barney lunch pail. Next take a serious look at your wardrobe and hair style and try to go for a less scholastic look and finally try to adapt a non-scholarly posture and mannerisms.
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To be honest it probably has relatively little to do with how you dress. It's just that generally people who are between the ages of about seventeen and twenty five often *are* students - the assumption probably has more to do with your age (or the age you look) rather than what you're wearing. I've never been the combat trousers and t-shirt type (I'm actually very well groomed the majority of the time, even when I was at uni I used to use a big handbag rather than a rucksack) and people still ask if I'm a student - I take it as a compliment because it probably means I look young. The only thing that might help is if you wear more expensive clothes (how many students can afford Gucci?) - but frankly I'm not sure it's worth it.
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