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Saturday, November 10, 2007
flashback! augh!
Today a friend forwarded this hilarious article to me via email. (Go read it now and come back. Seriously, or the rest of this post will make no sense at all.)
Did you look at it? I'm serious, did you? OK. I hope you weren't drinking anything at the time. Diet Coke can really hurt coming through your nose.
My friend appended a question to the top of the article when she emailed it to me. That question was, "Did we ever really dress like this?"
My answer: Yes. Yes, I did. In the 1980's. At a public elementary school. In case you ever wondered why I was so popular. Because sometimes being a loudmouthed, socially clueless know-it-all just isn't enough, and you need a few well-chosen hand-me downs to help you along -- not to mention a really killer hairdo. (My hair was in a shaggy, unruly, flippy pixie-cut long before Meg Ryan made it cool for about eleven nanoseconds).
OK, OK, so my clothes weren't quite that bad. (For instance, I didn't have any chest hair.) But there were a few outfits that came very, very close.
And with that, I've used up my allotments for both italics and parentheses for at least the next six posts, so I'll have to close and go to bed, where I hope I won't be troubled with nightmares about that one pair of orange-and-peach fake-patchwork polyester pants that I wore in the second grade.
Comments
Mwahahahahaha!!!
Seriously, the orange jumpsuit? And the what-on-EARTH-it-is-that-Bob-Sagat-is-wearing? The rest of the clothes I can see people wearing, but those two??? I mean, Bob Sagat is basically wearing a DRESS!
On the other hand, one of my colleagues wears velour jumpsuits on a regular basis, so I guess it's not *totally* unheard of...
Thanks for sharing :D
Posted by: Maria at November 11, 2007 12:02 AM
Wow.
Thanks for the laugh!
If only I could find a cool barrel-themed dining set to have for my very own. . .
Posted by: Michael at November 11, 2007 04:35 AM
I had a jumpsuit like that, when I was 4. Which would put us at, yep, 1978. I loved that jumpsuit.
There is a picture of my husband, age 2, with his parents and all three of them are wearing matching shirts (red and white stripes). Yep, 1977.
Man, that was hilarious. Those are some outfits.
Michael, if you get the barrel furniture, you need to invite us all over to test it out. Because it looks COMFY.
Posted by: mary at November 11, 2007 07:16 AM
Oh my gosh, thanks for the laugh. I have to say that at this moment, I am SO relieved to be just a teeeny bit younger than you, with a horrible memory! ;-)
Posted by: Susan at November 11, 2007 06:36 PM
I will always love the style of the 70's/80's. I see no problem with avocado green or large collars. I love orange stripes and wear them with pride. I think I'm the only one who looks back at childhood pictures and honestly loves the way I dressed.
Posted by: jennifer at November 12, 2007 02:18 PM
