so, i was planning to post about the myriad of bad fashion choices i have made over the years. a friend and i were talking recently about the horrific sense of style we had when we were in middle school. she said:
"Did you have a monogrammed sweater? I had just one. It was kelly green with blue letters. And wool. I loved to carry my matching navy purse with the green trim."
yes, i think i had a monogrammed sweater. but my worst fashion faux pas (worse than candy-stripe-looking puffy sleeves or frizzy, terrible hair) was this:
i used to wear high-necked, ruffly blouses. and i'd tie a matching thin ribbon in a prim little bow just below the top ruffle around my throat. it was very caroline ingalls. i'm trying to think when that was... i hope it was middle school and not high school.
anyway, as i said, this was going to be a post about stupid adolescent 1980s clothing choices, but as i was rummaging through some old photos looking for incriminating evidence of past fashion crimes i came across my old middle school yearbooks... and now this is what i'm posting about:
i look at that and find myself more than a little stunned that this is how one of my good friends thought of me. a good speller. what about my outgoing sense of humor? my burgeoning musical talent? my ruffle blouses, for godsakes??
if i didn't have such good manners, i think i would have confronted her about her choice of words.
Posted by xta at November 9, 2004 10:14 PM | TrackBackThat note is too funny. That's so cool that you still have that stuff.
I had a monogrammed sweater (purple with dark purple letters) but that wasn't even close to my worst fashion blunder. The most frequent would have to be the pegging of all my bluejeans at the ankle. Why couldn't I have realized that skinny pant legs only made my hips look BIGGER?
Posted by: lainey at November 10, 2004 09:55 AMGod, that's funny. And oh my, I could show you the book from my confirmation (although I won't, because it's buried in my parents' back yard) in which a very good friend of mine is wearing a very, very similar blouse. Scary :-)
Posted by: pinky at November 10, 2004 10:55 AMCome on, "burgeoning"??? Admit it to yourself, and to the world, you are a brilliant speller!
Posted by: gene at November 12, 2004 02:28 PMI unfortunately was without a monogrammed sweater.
But I had a KICKING argyle sweater with socks to match.
Don't hate me because I was beautiful.