Since the start of this academic year I’ve noticed a surprising trend. Schoolgirls, specifically high school girls, seem to frequently wear their backpacks on their front. This trend seems completely absent from high school boys, or indeed boys in general.
\nWhere the heck did this come from? Is this an international thing, a Kiwi thing, a Wellington thing, what? Has it been around a while and I just missed it?
\nWhy are they wearing their backpacks like that? They have to be less comfortable worn that way. I’m familiar with people wearing backpacks reversed to make it hard for thieves and pickpockets, but this is Wellington New Zealand, and that kind of crime is vanishingly rare here (I’ve never even heard of a single case).
\nIs it just a random trend that has swept through the community? Did Paris Hilton do it one time? Schoolgirl status-competition trades heavily on appearance, and surely backpack reversing can’t be a cool look, can it?
\nCal suggested that perhaps girls wear their bags like that because their school uniforms don’t have pockets, so they have to keep their cellphones in their bags, so they make their bags easily accessible by wearing them reversed. I don’t find that explanation very convincing.
\nThere are more than a few teachers of the aforementioned high school girls among my readers – can any of them enlighten me?
\n—
\nI just blogged about how I have been observing high school girls. There goes my career in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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