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Royal Holloway law student, Paula Ursu, blasts peers for criticising her for ‘wearing make-up, platforms and matching outfits’ to lectures

The 18-year-old says she doesn't care what others wear, yet adds: 'As long as you look decent, that's fine'

Aftab Ali
Student Editor
Wednesday 28 October 2015 13:18 EDT
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'If you think it’s too much, get over it', wrote the law student
'If you think it’s too much, get over it', wrote the law student (Paula Ursu/Facebook)

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A teenage law student has blasted fellow classmates for seeing her as ‘dumb’ because she chooses to attend early morning classes wearing make-up and ‘trying to make every detail of my outfit match’.

Paula Ursu, 18 - a first-year student at Royal Holloway, University of London - took to online student publication, The Tab, to vent her fury at ‘tracksuit slobs’ after she said she grew tired of passive-aggressive remarks regarding her attire and for wearing platforms to 9am lectures.

The student, who was reportedly a prefect at the independent Felsted School in Essex, defended her actions, describing how they show-off her ‘time management and a fair amount of intelligence’, writing: “I’m working hard towards my law degree, I speak five languages, I go to the gym every other day, I go to societies, I volunteer to teach English to refugees, I kind of have a social life, and I still have the time to dress up.”

However, Ursu, who is said to be single, went on to contradict herself by saying she genuinely doesn’t care what other people are wearing, then said: “As long as you look decent, that’s fine.” She also added how it’s hypocritical to judge someone solely on their looks after making reference to people who ‘slum it around campus in tracksuits and pyjamas’.

Where such comments from her peers once got under the skin of the law student, now, though, she said she no longer cares because she’s a good person. Acknowledging how people will always have an opinion, she expressed her hopes for other people like herself who can be comfortable in their own skin without suffering judgement from peers and rounded-off: “I’m sorry if that’s such a crime.”

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