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Today, the school I work at had a Spirit Day, in the runup to our fall dance. If you’re not familiar with the concept, students are temporarily exempt from the dress code, as long as they dress according to the day’s theme.
Today, the freshmen all (or at least, all who were following the theme) wore Parisian fashions, the sophomores wore Hawaiian shirts and leis, the juniors wore cowboy duds, and the seniors wore togas.
And yet, there was one single unifying theme to the day, and all of the participating students, in all four years, were dressing to that same theme. What was the one unifying theme?
Does the theme relate to: France, Hawai’i, Texas, Greece in a specific way?
Is it a decade theme? Like the 60’s but 1960s, 1860s, 1760s, 360s BC?
Is the theme related to people like: Marie Antionette, Jack Lord, Billy the Kid and Socrates? If so was the theme Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?
No.
No to both.
Was the theme something to do with color?
No. And also no, to appease the Bot who Shall Not be Named.
Does the location of the school matter? The name of the school? The mascot of the school? The history of the school?
Does the theme have anything to do with each class’s year? That is to say, would Parisian fashions, according to the theme, be appropriate specifically for the freshmen but not for any of the other students? And Hawaiian shirts for sophomores only, and so on?
Would it be possible for a student to wear a costume in the right category but somehow NOT adhere to the unifying theme?
Could the same unifying theme be carried out with a set of four other styles?
No to all.
Perhaps slightly? But mostly no. They could have changed which class wore what, and it wouldn’t have made much difference.
No.
Other styles are possible for the theme, but these were probably the best four.
I was going to ask if it’s a tribute to Marlon Brando’s screen roles — as Napoleon Bonaparte and Mark Antony and Rio in One-Eyed Jacks and That Creepy Doctor Moreau Knockoff In A Hawaiian Shirt on South Park — before I remembered all the leis in Mutiny On The Bounty.
Is that the idea?
No. I’m not even sure how many current high schoolers even know who Marlon Brando is.
Is the theme related to a work or works of fiction?
No, it is not related to any work of fiction.
Is the theme related to the wikipedia definition of Spirit Day ?
Is the theme connected to history?
Is it connected to some recognizable set with four members? (E.g., the four seasons, playing card suits, etc.)
Were the Parisian fashions contemporary, as in something that might be worn today? Clothing from a specific historical era? From a mix of historical eras?
Did the sophomores’ costumes have to be specifically Hawaiian to fit the theme or could they have been any one of, let’s say, a thousand islands?
No connection to that that I know of.
No to history.
No to a specific four-element set.
Any Parisian fashions would have been within the rules, though as actually implemented by the students, it mostly just consisted of berets and ascots.
Any islands would have worked, but I’m not sure what other islands have recognizably-distinct fashions.
Is the theme something you would reasonably expect to be apparent to someone who’s just looking at the costumes?
Or is the theme something more abstract or conceptual, so that you might have to have some background knowledge to figure out what it is?
Someone looking at the costumes would see what I described: Students wearing Parisian fashions, island garb, cowboy garb, and togas. Seeing the costumes in person would not have made the unifying theme any more apparent.