Like Gatsby, I too felt like I wasn't good enough for someone because I didn't have the hip, cool, new clothing that everyone was wearing. To be accepted into the upper-class Gatsby had to get the money, and dress & act the part. But still no one accepted him. In my middle school years, preferably 6th grade, fashion was big in school. If al the so-called-"popular" girls were wearing it you had to buy it and try to fit in. When uggs were really in style you just had to have them. So my parents were cheap and bought me the fake uggs because regular uggs are expensive. Everyone would make fun of me saying that fake uggs meant I was a fake person. I wasn't cool, just a wannabe. Then the next year my parents bought me some real ones for Christmas and I was ecstatic. Finally Jasmine Stith was in style with her rockin' new uggs and wouldn't be made fun of. Everyone, I guess you could say, finally accepted me because I had "real" ones.
After a little while though, the hype of my new, real uggs seemed to die down to a point where I thought it was boring to wear them all the time. I realized then that it didn't matter if I had uggs, the only reason people started to like and talk to me was because I had them. So I didn't wear them for a month and things went back to the way it used to be. Me watching everyone else trying to fit in with the new style. When I discovered that goucho pants were the new thing I was glad I stopped all this nonsense. Those pants were hideous. I want someone to like me for me, not for what I wear. Now I don't judge someone based on their appearance, only by the content of their character.
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