Following Barnard’s launch of new apparel for the 2026-2027 school year, the Student Store unveiled their new hot item: bedazzled dental dams. After much turmoil with the manufacturers who claimed sequins would render the dams ‘useless,’ Barnard advocates pushed forth and succeeded. Offering colors in classic blue, lilac pink, and class colors, this is an item to don’t want to miss!
The limited edition item emerges from Barnard’s Student Store new collection “Make Sexual Health Chic Again,” a line Barnard Student Store representatives have said to be “long overdue.” According to the store’s creative manager, the collection idea was conceived after a brainstorming session which started, fittingly, by asking why the Health Services free condoms were so, “unarousing, and honestly, lacking some libido-ness.”
The dams themself come individually wrapped in a glittery foil pouch stamped with a bottomless Millie the Dancing Brown Bear. The Student Store is, additionally, offering a customizable option through the Barnard Design Center. In terms of functionality, Health Services have noted that the rhinostones simply decorate the packaging, and that the dams themselves are FDA-approved, “fully functional, and of course, fully fabulous.”
The public discourse following its announcement, predictability, has been quite divided. One comment from Barnard junior Ciera Vix claimed the merch drop to be “iconic,” stating that she bought the dam to “literally just to frame it next to my bedazzled Barnard thong on my dorm mood board. Now I just need the accompanying balconette and I’ll have the whole set!” Yet, when interviewing male Columbia’s students many chose not to answer; those who did claimed that they, “never really do that… if you know what I mean.”
The Student Store plans on expanding the collection for the upcoming spring semester, hoping to carry travel-size lube key chains and “Cunt is Chic” tote bags.
