I wish I could remember the specifics but my high school had an extremely ridiculous dress code policy at one point. Mostly targeting girls, of course, but also had weird shit like “no large/long coats.”
What I do remember perfectly though, is that a friend of mine and I, angrily pouring over the details of the stupid dress code, realized that capes were perfectly fine according to the code as written. So we both got huge capes and that was like a whole year of high school.
Do it! It took an extremely long time for me, but I was also stopping and exploring constantly so that added a ton amount of time to the trip.
The combination of gratification, pride, and relief I felt completing that final jump to Colonia is hard to describe.
And the amount of stuff I FD’d along the way is mind-boggling. 100% worth it.