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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Fashion Disaster

I love the magazine Real Simple. Just reading it makes me feel like I’m living a more streamlined, organized life. The fact that I have to search for my copy because it’s buried under a pile of laundry/junk mail/CDs is neither here nor there.

Every month, the magazine poses a question to readers and includes select answers in the “Your Words,” column. One or two months ago the question was something akin to, “What was your biggest fashion disaster?” I laughed as I read the various responses and made a list in my mind of a few of my own fashion disasters. I’ve listed them below in order of most to least traumatizing.

The Swimsuit Debacle. When I was about 14 I wore a brand new swimsuit to a waterslide park. The slides were kind of old and were giving me and my friends scratches all over our backs. I didn’t think to connect that if the slides were giving me scratches on my back they might also be—yes, that’s right my friends—tearing a hole right in the rear of my swimsuit. I have no idea how long I walked around like that and only found out when my friend was walking behind me and saw my predicament. I have worn board shorts over my swimsuits ever since.

My Electric Purple Fanny Pack. I thought I looked oh-so-cool on my school trip to Great America with my leggings, layered t-shirts, and purple fanny pack. I did not. And I have the pictures to prove it.

Senior Prom. I used to look at old prom dresses and think I would never wear something that would look so silly years down the road. Well, I was wrong. During the year of my prom, the princess look was in. I had my mom sew me a very long, very full dress and, thinking I was so clever, made it glittery by covering it in fabric glue and sprinkling on tons of craft glitter. The night of prom I left a trail everywhere I went— like Pigpen, only my dust was a little more sparkly. My date had to vacuum his Mom’s car the day after the dance because of the trail I left.

So tell me, what are your biggest fashion disasters? It would be fun to hear.

6 comments:

Tamra Norton said...

My 2nd grade school picture! I REALLY wanted curly hair (or I thought I did) so I made my mom put my hair in curlers the night before. Oy--what a disaster! I've been scarred ever since. You can see the pic on my personal blog: www.a-bad-hair-life.livejournal.com .

Stephanie Humphreys said...

I'm thinking legwarmers and neon colors. (shudder)

Marcia Mickelson said...

Funny! My worst is when I used to wear my pants & jeans tucked into my socks in middle school. Please tell me I wasn't the only one. Oh, and Elodia are you going to post the pics you have of the purple fanny pack?!

Elodia Strain said...

Thanks for your comments! And about my fanny pack photo...I just gave our scanner to DI and haven't bought a new one yet, so I can't scan the picture. Shoot. :)

Katie Parker said...

We used to do the tucking-pants-into-socks thing too, Marcia. But, of course, we were way cool. ;-)

Janette Rallison said...

Fashion--that's nothing--I had humongous hair. But I do want to see a picture of your prom dress . . .