Hairstyles I get. I understand that in my lifetime the same hairstyle may not come back again (hopefully.... please shoot me if the "I sprayed my bangs and ran into a wall as fast as possible" look ever tries to make a comeback.... or the full on lady mullet..... *gag*). But I have started to see some styles come back. Certain prints on shirts. The fact that tight tapered jeans are now back in style again ...
(I think they are in.... or maybe they are just on their way in... though I do pray that soon they will be on their way OUT again. Please, OH PLEASE don't let Hammer Pants ever make a comeback. EVER)
Still I have to look back and wonder why my mother allowed me to wear certain things. Or my hair certain ways.....
take this, for instance:
What kind of PANTS are those???? I know I was monstrously tall for an eleven year old, but EEEEE GADS. And WHITE.... WHITE PANTS.... Need I say more?
And here is one a couple of years later:
What son of a motherless goat picked out THAT SHIRT? for a school picture? REALLY? Was I attempting to go Southwestern? or just add a little cowboy into my awkward years... and what is UP with my hair? I think I gave up trying to do my own hair at this point in life..... kinda early seeing that I was only thirteen years old. Needless to say I look back on most of the pictures of myself that I own and cringe. Mostly because they are all either pictures that I took (that are crap BTW cause what eleven-year-old do you know that can actually take a decent picture with a FILM camera.....) or they were pictures taken by the school. :P
Also I look at many of the pictures and wonder where that girls mother was, cause.....
EW
Watch I just jinxed myself, when my kids get to be that age I will try to step in and correct fashion faux pas and they will simply roll their eyes and continue to wear whatever they want.
Hey!!!! Wait a minute, I had two older sisters around at this point....
WHERE WERE THEY?!?! Oh yeah, I have vague recollections of one doing her hair for two hours each morning... and they other tackling me to try to pluck my eyebrows.
mmmmm explains a lot doesn't it? ;)
To the siblings and the mamacita: Love you guys, and keep in mind I have MANY bribery pictures of YOU too!!! MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
5 comments:
April, I'm so there with ya. I look at the skinny jeans, and the big shirts with the clip thingy, and the leggings that are all coming back, and I have bad fashion flashbacks. The 80s/early 90s was a hard time for fashion, and combine that with the awkward teenage years, and it's not a pretty sight. I also wonder where my mom was, but if you watch movies from back then, everyone dressed that way.
Dude, I hear ya. I look at my senior pictures and totally cringe. And they're there, on my parents' wall, FOREVER.
I also wonder why my mom let me wear certain clothes and hairstyles. But then I also remember arguing with her over what I thought looked good! Now I let my son wear things to school I don't think match because I get tired or arguing with him! I have been tempted to stick a note on him that says "Look, I dressed myself today!"
Oh that is too funny. And we can all relate. I wore WHITE sweat pants to Darby one year. Wow-- I'm a genius. Cringing is my normal routine when looking back at pictures. So bad. I'm wondering why no one told me glasses that cover from mid cheek to over the eyebrows looked bad.....!! Seriously.
Dude...I think I remember you wearing that cowboy shirt! :) You looked awesome!
I myself was a fashion disaster. I totally feel your shame and pain.
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