Red pants! We always thought of them as another part of the East Coast, out of the northeast. Lol, yes, if you want to seem old money, hey, go buy a pair of them or the holly. A lot less expensive than living the full lifestyle. But I imagine, at a NESCAC, you’d get some odd looks.
Our status-y thing was ripped or very worn out jeans (before this newfound popularity, where machines make the tears) worn with an expensive wool pullover sweater. This is silly, but I thought of that as very “Princeton.”
Thing is, I know some gals my D1’s age who are still rather Lily Pulitzer or Talbots. But not NESCAC. Or not day-to-day. Maybe when off to dinner with their parents-?
Sorry I just went OT. But kids today are freer to express themselves- and do.