Dayna DiJoseph says her style makes no sense.

“I have everything in my closet, from this one pair of high top leather sneakers that have buckles and zippers all over them to floral dresses and like really girly. It’s all over the place,” DiJoseph said.

DiJoseph, a freshman marketing and advertising double major, has always been interested in fashion and began modeling at a young age. After College Fashionista listed her as one of the 75 most stylish college freshmen in the country, she was featured on Seventeen.com with four other girls from the campaign.

“I saw it on their Twitter and was like ‘there’s pictures of Taylor Swift and Lucy Hale on this thing, and then there’s me,’” DiJoseph said.

Including a Michael Jackson-inspired fedora and a quintessential British trench coat, DiJoseph comments on the five wardrobe essentials she couldn’t live without.

Black fedora

“It very much compliments an outfit. I’ve learned, after I got out of the high school-oriented, dress-code mindset, that hats really are an accent or a way to polish off an outfit. So I feel like it just adds that extra little bit of taste to the overall ensemble.”

Black trench coat

“A trench coat is never going to go out of style. It’s been around for so long and they keep kind of reinventing it, adding different things to it, different ways to wear it. Like now it’s big to drape it on your shoulders like I have here. Or you can wear it traditionally. I feel like it’s one of those pieces that’s universal, and you can change over every year and use it.”

Coated denim pants

“It’s something you can do to experiment with your wardrobe but still be a bit edgy. Like if you wanted to go with a little edginess, but you could still wear it with more everyday stuff. Since it’s like a black leather, you could wear it as a bottom to go with anything you would wear like pants or black jeans with, but you’re trying a trend, or you’re going that little extra bit just to experiment.”

Black leather bag

“If it’s bigger like this one is, you can fit more in it. Maybe a couple classes got canceled for the day — you only have one — you can just throw (a notebook) in your purse as opposed to lugging a backpack around. And also because it’s very simple, it is another one of those pieces that I feel like can transcend a season.”

Black motorcycle boots

“It’s a style that is always there, they just reinvent it. So I feel like if you pair it well and can dress it the right way, it’ll just kind of keep being there. And also, it adds a little bit of edge to an outfit. I wear it a lot of times with dresses, just to kind of do the soft and the edge together without being too overpowering.”

Published on November 12, 2014 at 12:01 am

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