{"id":180903,"date":"2025-08-20T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=180903"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:53","slug":"jette-houdt-van-een-lekker-topje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/08\/20\/jette-houdt-van-een-lekker-topje\/","title":{"rendered":"Jette loves a nice top"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jette (18) and her roommate are eating fries from a cone and drinking\u00a0<\/span>hard seltzer<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>with passionfruit flavour. Especially for the introduction week a bridge has been built between the student corps’ society and a small grassy area across the street. Jette leans back in the shade, her sunglasses in her hair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the terrace at RSC\/RVSV Jette wears a comfortable outfit with 'a touch of party'.<\/span><\/p>

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She picks a scrap of toilet paper off the sole of her shoe: pink Adidas Gazelles with yellow stripes. She did her best to clean them, but she couldn\u2019t get the brown stains out. During her gap year she worked as a ski instructor in Austria, where the trainers were already her \u2018going-out shoes\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Comfort<\/h2>
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Last week Jette moved all her clothes from Hengelo to her new room in Blijdorp. It takes some adjusting to move from a relatively small town to Rotterdam. \u201cIn Hengelo I know the city centre by heart, and here I don\u2019t even know what the city centre really is.\u201d Luckily she immediately gets on with her housemate. This morning her housemate helped Jette pick out her outfit. She has a simple strategy for that: \u201cSee it, like it, put it on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She needs comfort and wants something that flatters. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make my shoulders look so broad\u201d, she says about her top, \u201cit suits my body shape.\u201d She wears a brown sleeveless top made of pleated fabric that has become even more creased over the course of the day. She also wears long, comfortable jeans that she could wear all night. \u201cLong trousers and a nice top, a bit of a party, it has to be a little fun\u201d, she jokes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Party<\/h2>
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Yesterday Jette and her housemate only got back from a party by student association SSR at 3.30 \u201cWe said at 1.00: \u2018We\u2019re going home soon.\u2019 But then someone offered us a beer and we thought: You know what, let\u2019s get drunk.\u201d Later she\u2019s going to cycle to Ahoy for the Cantus. There she\u2019ll meet her \u2018intro dads\u2019 and her group again. After the Cantus she hopes to be able to get a bus to another student association party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jette is happy with her eyebrows.<\/span><\/p>

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She notices that she quite resembles the other women on the grass, with her long hair and Meller sunglasses. Most people here are already members of RSC\/RVSV, but Jette doesn\u2019t feel the need to belong. She tells her housemate: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter to me at all if they don\u2019t like me.\u201d She is confident that she will find her friends next year on her own: through her Public Administration studies or at the football club, but in any case in her new house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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What is a compliment that you like to receive about your look?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I used to have a unibrow. Now I’m happy with all that hair, because I don’t have to draw my eyebrows and they just have a good shape. If someone says that: ‘You really have such a nice colour or a nice shape!’ I like to hear that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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