Style Scout: Shannon Barry

Clothing details: jeans, American Eagle, 0 on sale; shoes, DSW, 5 on sale; coat, Forever 21, 0; shirt, secondhand store in Springfield, Mo., called Uptown Cheapskate, ; cardigan, Gap, 5; Dooney & Bourke purse, thrift store,

Name: Shannon Barry

Age: 19

Relationship status: So single. So alone. (laughs)

Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.

Time in Lawrence: Visiting for the day

Occupation: Student (environmental biology major)

Dream job: I want to work with the National Parks.

What were you doing when scouted? Paying for parking.

Describe your style: I like to be casual and comfortable.

Fashion trends you love: I really like leggings as pants; I like skinny jeans — I can’t wear flare jeans because I’m too short. I like that the trend is oversized things because everything is always oversized on me because I’m so small, so I’m glad it’s a “trend” now. I don’t look weird if I wear things that are drastically too big for me.

Fashion trends you hate: I like crop tops, whenever they’re not actually crop tops, but I hate the half-shirts that people are casually wearing.

Fashion influences: Well, I watch “Girls” a lot — the HBO show — and I want to dress like them because they’re very cool and they live in the city, and they wear weird stuff but it always looks good, so I think that’s fun.

What are your favorite and least favorite things about Lawrence? There’s a lot to do, for it being a college town I think it’s really cool. It’s really a cute environment. I just don’t like that it’s so far away and we have to drive so far away to get here.

Tattoos or piercings: One tattoo on my upper thigh that says “Take it as it comes,” three piercings on left ear, two on right; I’ve had my nose pierced on both sides, and both times it just didn’t work out. I’m still bitter about that.

What’s your spirit animal? My friend Steven pretended to be a shaman once and said I was a fox, but I don’t really know if that’s real, so it’s either that or — my favorite animal is the American Bison, so I feel like I’d love to be a bison. They’re almost extinct; it’s upsetting.

Whom do people say you look like? My mom says I look like Dakota Fanning — I don’t. And I’ve gotten that I look like Noël Wells who was on “Master of None,” Aziz Ansari’s show.

Tell us a secret: I changed my major because I was afraid I wouldn’t be a good teacher.