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Licensing requirements and taxation differ from place to place. Check with your local municipality as to what they require - it may be something on that level or higher, perhaps the county or state. In my area anyone can get a business license just through application with the state. How your choose to set up and name your business is up to you (and your club) and the legal exposure you wish to engender. I'd recommend taking a business class or two to help you set up and run a small business.......you are certainly in the right environment to take advantage of that!!

I work at a college in the frozen north, and my office window looks out on a path that gads of students (mostly girls) walk by every day to get from dorm to class. They are from all over the country. I have to laugh when every year, at least once, the whole campus gets a cautionary note from the campus safety office warning people to dress properly, particularly with footwear for icy conditions. I've seen the gamut, from dorky-warm to stylish-warm to ridiculously-under-dressed IMHO and mostly looking miserable under those conditions. So a lot depends on your daughter and her approach. Also her personal sense of style and frankly, her major! I was a natural resources major as an undergrad and now work in the biology dept. The clothing ethos in NR has always been focus on the practical. The uniform was hiking boots, plaid shirt with probably waffle weave long underwear underneath, jeans and a down coat or vest. Wool hat, scarf and mittens and windproof down or polartec coat for outside. No one would look askance at you and think you were a dork around the NR building and in class, in fact if you dressed in heels and a thin coat, then you would be labeled a dork! In the biology dept. most students are pre med/vet/dentistry, and their minds are on their books, comfort is the main concern because you'll need to be studying for long hours and you don't want to be distracted by clothing items or lack thereof. For other majors, all bets are off. Popular and sensible items seem to be stylish boots, which almost all gals here wear, either with pants or leggings, and some kind of head covering that doesn't give you hat hair! Cute hoods, cowl scarves, earmuffs and headbands are popular. Nice wool socks will never be a bad item to have around. The rest is personal style. The coat style Tibbrix posted is popular around here, but not to everyone's taste. I have a waterproof, windproof jacket that is my absolute go-to item to wear, either on iffy warmer days, or over a winter jacket to provide extra protection. It is expensive but good ones can wear like iron. Can be folded up into little sacks and stashed to have with you just in case. Oh, and the day they dropped me off to college, my folks got me a long cardigan/coat sweater. I loved it, wore it all the time, and still have it! Oh, and I've always been a long underwear devotee, but I'm always cold. You might discuss with your daughter getting a kind of long underwear that she can wear under most of her clothing, something stretchy and close fitting if she goes for a more form fitting look. When I was in college, I wore a lot of men's clothes, although now the lumberjack look is available for both sexes, having gone in and out of style for youth during the "grunge" era. Maybe that's why I never got married, lol! My current SO likes what he calls a "sporty" look, so I guess I am OK.

If you are able to (you may not yet have access to the room, or potentially not even seen it yet): provide room measurements. And info as to whether you can bring your own bed, dresser, etc. (And how much room is left over for, say, a comfortable chair you can curl into to relax. Or a set of two nice but small chairs that don't say DORM on them with a little side table, so you can sit around with a friend over some coffee. If you drink coffee, I'd get yourself a small coffee maker, and squirrel away a couple gallons of water. I don't care for the Keurig style, or their coffee, but it may work in this situation. If you can supply your own bed, if a double fits, I'd go with that. In any case, the coverings should be a fabric pattern you like -- and see if you can cover the headboard, too. If it's the dormitory style I remember, that was large metal pipes with thin metal stabilizing pipes going up vertically. Cover them. I would lean towards patterns rather than plain, mainly because plain reminds me of my old college dorms, but that would be your taste call. Real artwork for the walls -- no, not pricy, just avoid posters. If you do find a poster you like, frame it -- I have a van Gogh night scene -- the one with the yellow café -- hanging up in my living room, and yes, it's a print and it's framed. Consider changing out the curtains or drapes - store theirs and replace when you move out. Chiflipper, she may be spending more time in that room than you think. Not all of us are partiers, or at least not more than once or twice a week.