You see great-looking people and the coolest outfits on the Wageningen campus. In this feature, we put one of them in the spotlight. This time it’s Casper van Schaik, a lab technician at Nematology.
‘My style developed through the music I listen to. I’ve been a fan of punk since I was 13, and these clothes go with the territory. I usually wear band T-shirts, which I prefer to buy at concerts. My jacket is just a denim jacket that I’ve decorated with spikes, patches, zips and badges. I make the badges myself; I’ve got a badge machine at home. The shoes are part of the style. They are creepers, which are popular in other scenes, like psychobilly, but also among punks.
‘I’ve been through all the hair colours, but I always go back to blue. It lasts the longest. At work I don’t very often bother with the mohawk, but I do for concerts. My wife and I dye each other’s hair, about once a month. My little boy’s got dyed hair too now. All three of us went to Rebellion, the festival where I met my wife, and then he wanted his hair dyed too. I said okay, as it was the summer holiday anyway. But he’s still got it.
‘I look the same at work as I do at home. No one ever says anything about it, actually. People are used to it, I think. I find fashion a strange business. Of course, I do follow a particular fashion myself. But the kind of fashion that changes every few months, I just don’t get at all.’
