Many students get jump on shopping for school.Byline: Ben Fuchs The Register-Guard They came from Coos Bay Coos Bay (k  s), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. and Albany, Mapleton and Monroe, converging
on area stores like a flock of locusts. And for what?
"Cargo pants cargo pants or trousers Noun, pl loose trousers with a large external pocket on the side of each leg ," said 14-year-old Alex Hammond, a freshman-to-be at West Albany High School West Albany High School is a public high school built in Albany, Oregon, United States. It is in the Greater Albany Public School District, and competes in the Mid-Willamette Conference of the Oregon School Activities Association. . "T-shirts," said Marist High School sophomore Brantly Millegan. "Baggy jeans that come with the chain attached," said 10-year-old Conor Aines, a fifth-grader at Clear Lake Middle School in Eugene. For teens and younger kids alike, the time is rapidly approaching to say goodbye to summer. On Sunday, thousands of students got a jump on their back-to-school clothes shopping at Valley River Center Valley River Center is a shopping mall located in Eugene, Oregon. As the largest shopping center south of Portland and north of San Francisco, this mall comprises over 130 local and national stores and restaurants. in Eugene, hopping from store to store in search of the hippest threads. Many agreed that the year's hottest trends are cargo pants and vintage wear. An employee at the Abercrombie & Fitch store, however, had a different opinion. "I'd say the biggest trend is women's clothes trying to look like men's clothes," said 22-year-old Jhana Gilbert. "Girls can basically look like they're wearing their boyfriends' clothes." Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its girls are apparently hip to this new cross-dressing craze, with about three-quarters of the $20,000 worth of sales at the Abercrombie store on Saturday going to females, store manager Mike Hartwig said. The back-to-school sales period, which runs through Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. , is one of the store's busiest times of the year, he said. "This and Christmas," he said. Shopping with his mom, Mapleton High School sophomore Justin Burt said the hourlong drive to Eugene has become a yearly ritual. "We always come here for back-to-school shopping," said his mother, Kathleen Burt. They weren't the only ones: Kelly Thompson-Poore drove from Coos Bay to help outfit her 16-year-old daughter, Alanna Alanna may refer to:
pl.n. Clothes, especially pants, made of blue denim. blue jeans npl → tejanos mpl; vaqueros mpl , belts and pants, the two were ready to call it a day and start the two-hour drive home. Thompson-Poore said the mall's variety justified the travel time. "You know you're going to find something when you shop," she said. But therein lay the problem for Eugene mom Laurie Bullard, who briefed her two daughters on shopping etiquette before bringing them to the mall Sunday. "We've had long talks before coming about how much we're buying today, how much we're spending," she said. "We try to prepare for these trips ahead of time. This is the test." CAPTION(S): Justin Burt, 15, a Mapleton High School student, spends the afternoon shopping for school at Valley River Center. |
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