Taking 30-45 minutes to get ready, Craft’s morning schedule begins with getting up and brushing his teeth before going downstairs to eat breakfast. Photo contributed by: Zach Craft
By Elizabeth Jackson
Although some may think girls are the ones who take the longest amount of time to get ready, there are some Plymouth High School students who think otherwise.
The process of waking up and getting ready for the day can take awhile, but for some students the process does not take as long as one would expect. Sophomore Natalie Wright expects boys to take approximately 10 minutes to get ready. Although Natalie would expect boys to take such a short amount of time, senior Zach Craft said he takes 30-45 minutes to get ready each morning. In order for Craft to get ready, there are different things he has to do. “I get out of bed, get in the shower, get dressed, and proceed to brush my teeth and put my contacts in. I finally then go downstairs and eat breakfast.” There are other students who take 30-45 minutes to get ready for school. Sophomore Sarah Relos spends the first 30-45 minutes of her day getting ready for school. “I get up, make my bed, wash my face, do my make up, then I move on to my hair. I put my clothes on, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, and then I put my perfume on. Before I leave, I get my lunch together and go to school,” said Relos. One might be surprised that a boy and a girl take the same amount of time to get ready.
With the thought that girls take longer to get ready than boys, PHS students give their opinions on how long they think the average boy and the average girl take to get ready. Sophomore Jon Solorio said that he believes girls take about 40 minutes and boys take about 10. Freshman Nathaniel Carper believes girls take 2 hours to get ready and boys take about 15 minutes. Although both Carper and Solorio think boys take such short of time to get ready, Craft disagrees in how long he thinks both genders take. “I would say on average for a girl probably an hour to an hour and a half and for a guy probably just half hour to forty five minutes.” Agreeing with Craft, Relos thinks “Depending on if they take a shower in the mornings, I would say 1 [or more] hours for an average girl. An average boy probably takes only 25-35 minutes.” Although these students have all given different time estimates for the two genders, there is a student who believes they take the same amount of time to get ready. Senior Jacob McKown said, “I would think both would take a half hour.” There are many stipulations whether students think girls take longer to get ready and why they think that.
Craft believes girls take longer to get ready, and he thinks so because “…they have more to do and also they care about how they look unlike a lot of guys.” Solorio thinks girls take longer to get ready because “girls have to curl, scrunch, tease, use hairspray, makeup, and so much more!” Relos believes girls take longer to get ready for another reason. “Females are expected by society to wear makeup every day. Guys just throw some clothes on and leave.” McKown, who thinks boys and girls take the same amount of time to get ready, said that girls do not take longer to get ready. “I mean, they have to do their makeup, but they know how to do that and can do it pretty quickly.” When getting ready for school, there are many different outfit choices for students to wear.
Sophomore Haleigh Wylie said there are many different looks she goes for when getting ready for school. “Some days I pick out an outfit that is just really comfy and some days I pick out an outfit that is cute,” said Wylie. Relos wears nearly the same kind of outfit everyday, unlike Wylie. “Skinny jeans [or] leggings, small black shoes, and an over-sized hoodie or sweater are what I typically wear,” said Relos. For boys, there are a variety of looks they dress like. McKown said that the outfits he typically wears are just jeans and a t-shirt. Unlike the laid-back McKown, Solorio dresses a different way. “I go for the more classy thing,” said Solorio. Like McKown, Craft goes for a laid-back look. Craft said he usually wears “khakis with a sweatshirt.” There are many reasons people may dress the way they do.
Students may have things they base their appearance around. Carper believes people base their appearance around school and the school’s dress code. Craft believes people base their appearance around “what other people think of them and their outfit.” Agreeing with Craft, Wylie believes students base their appearance around something similar to what others think about them. “It all comes down to the people around them,” Wylie said. Relos, on the other hand, believes students base their appearance around something completely different. “Definitely famous individuals or someone they admire. I try to base my appearance on how I feel or how I want others to perceive me. Most of today’s teens look at celebrities, wanting everything they have, forgetting all about originality.”
Students may think girls take longer to get ready, and students may think boys and girls take about the same amount of time. What people must remember is that the clothes one wears are not the important part of a person, but what is on the inside.