Everyone says the four years fly by, but we didn’t actually think they would! With graduation right around the corner (who’s cutting onions?) let VALLEY help you pick out a graduation dress that properly pays homage to the good, the bad and the ugly of four years as a Nittany Lion.
An Open Back Silk Dress
Four years is a long time. Within this blur of turning in papers late, watching your situationship make out with someone else right in front of you and countless mornings (and dollars) spent at Bagel Crust, you actually grew into the person you were bound to be. You have matured, evolved and blossomed into a young adult ready to take on the world, whether you know it or not. To cheers the maturity, choose an equally mature dress, like this open-back silk one.
Asymmetrical
However, we are still kids after all! Maybe your time at Penn State wasn’t so much about growth and more about the good old fun you had. College is freedom, it’s all-nighters, it’s pitchers at Café at noon! For a dress just as fun as these four years, choose something out of the ordinary, like an asymmetrical lining for the perfect touch of youthfulness.
“See kids, your mom was hot.”
These are all prime years, so why not wear a bodycon dress to graduation? You ate like crap and drank like a sailor and still managed to look oh so good while doing it, show it off! Wear the dress that is going to prove to your future kids that you were cool (and probably out of their dad’s league).
New Beginnings
This May, embrace the new beginnings that come with spring and go with the adorable sundress. The sun is setting past 7 o’clock, the birds are chirping and the plants are budding—the world is being reinvented and so are you. Take charge of this spring, of the unknown, and wear the perfect sundress to blossom alongside nature.
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TW: Job Talk
If you have your 9-5 job lined up, start embracing the cubicle appropriate slays now and switch up the narrative by wearing a fashionable two piece set to graduation. You didn’t walk all the way to the Business Building from downtown every day for nothing, take charge of the stadium and rock those pants and matching top, you deserve it.
The word graduation is a heavy one. It’s connotated as something daunting, an end. VALLEY is here to reassure you (and ourselves) that graduation is nearly the beginning of the good times had. You are deserving of all the success and surprises coming your way, let your dress be a representation of that. A glamorous goodbye and a head-turning hello all in one. And through these next few months, do not forget, how lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?
Have your graduation dress picked out already? Tag us on Instagram @VALLEYmag, with your last Penn State look!
