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なるほど！ Makes a lot more sense now, Osaka Joe. どうもありがとう。
じゃ、訳は "Eeeh… isn't it nice? (I use it) because it's the most comfortable for studying." だろう。

This part should be,
雪野：　え～～、いいじゃん。　　　
　　　　だって、、、これが一番勉強しやすいんだもん。
Is it OK now?

Just one piece of additional information needed there. The も (even if) interpretation seems to be foreshadowed by the そんな。 現実か錯覚か？

A school jersey is a representaive of dowdy but relaxed outfits in Japan.

さすがＧｅｓｔａｌｔさん
説明ってありがとう！

我流チンさんもありがとう
僕に後で入れてももっと上手よね

No harm in getting confirmation, Gestalt.

That makes it twice I've been right this week... I'm on a roll.

Rats - should have quit while I was ahead.

There is no doubting that you are right, and you fully and intelligibly explained all of it, Gestalt. Congratulations.

いばる doesn't quite mean to be proud in this situation, more like to have being haughty, or full of oneself.

yup, んな = そんな

ねーちゃん…　んなカッコでいばってもさ = "dressed like that, you can't really go around acting so full of yourself.."

this ～ても is not 'also' but "even if".  There is an bit left off after も which is filled in mentally by the reader:
"with an outfit like that, even if you act full of yourself/important.. ( ..no one is going to pay any attention /  ..it won't really work etc.) "

The humour here is quite Japanese, because they associate certain attitudes with particular appearances: She's dressed in a crappy school jacket, so being arrogant or full of herself is out of character for what she's wearing.

ふだん　コンタクト ( "usually wears contacts" )

EDIT: Beaten to it by Garyuchin!

Pazu:

ふだん　＝　いつも - still playing with the rest of it.
カッコでいばってき　（？）　(as befits the) resolute swaggering type(?) Might fit...

I'm slacking… I was supposed to work on at least one page a day. Oh well…

雪野：おかえりー
　　　月ちゃん♡
　　　かのちゃん♡
月野：姉ちゃん……
　　　あいかわらずユカイなカッコだね〜っ
雪野：え〜〜いいじゃん
　　　だって……コレが一番勉強しやすいんだもん

雪野：皆さん
　　　学校とはずいぶんのギャップじゃねえかとお思いかもしれませんが
　　　……そう私は
　　　見栄っぱりである！

雪野：「上品なワタシ」はただのソトヅラ！
　　　性格いいなんて大ウソ！！
　　　ほんとは私は誰より人に尊敬されたり、アコガレられたり、
　　　特別扱いされたり、ちやほやされたり
　　　一番をとるのが大好きなだけの

雪野：「見栄王」なのです

This page was surprisingly easy to understand. I was able to get everything. My vocabulary still sucks, but it's nothing a good dictionary can't fix. Colloquial forms are killing me, but I'm getting the hang of it. I couldn't figure out things like カッコ being short for かっこう when I started reading this manga, but now I'm getting it just fine.

I'm still having trouble with more natural sentences, like the 「え〜〜いいんじゃんだって……」 and the 「だもん」 ending in the next sequence, and the small writing in the second and last panels.

In the second panel, I can see 「コンタクト」 and 「中学ジャージ」, but there's something written above コンタクト I can't read.  In the last panel, I think it's 「ねーちゃん…　んなカッコでいばってもさ」. Is んな short for そんな? The sentence also seems somewhat backwards to me. I think it means something like "she's proud even when she's dressed like this"… but if I was constructing this sentence, I would write 「そんな格好いてもいばるさ」… maybe I got something wrong?

mainland PRC
US citizen though

I mean, mainlander, taiwanese, cantonese, etc

i'm chinese