Hey lovelies! How are y’all this Tuesday? Thanks for joining me again for 2 On Tuesday!
Today I want to know:
Tell me your two biggest fashion mistakes. Shoulder pads? Bike shorts? Banana clips? I want to hear it.
My fashion mishaps started in the 5th grade. Check out my rocking bangs, turtleneck. and Cosby sweater. I was allergic to silver, so I had to wear these little plastic dot earrings instead of normal, cute earrings. Just as well. I’m sure I would have been sporting some light up Christmas trees or something.
I didn’t learn to tweeze until I was in college. Unfortch for me! This was the year of Sun-In… which lightened my hair to a terrible orange yellow and eventually lead to a good portion of my hair falling out.
I sported glasses as big as my face until the 8th grade, when I finally convinced my mother I was responsible enough for contacts. This was the year that I thought that my brother’s clothes were cooler than my own, thus the striped Polo shirt.
He never did forgive me for stretching his shirts out.
Do I need to explain this one?
This was the year Friends premiered, and I absolutely had to have the Rachel cut. However, the Rachel cut was not for me (or my hairdresser hated me – not sure which one). My hair looked like it had been butchered, so my mom’s solution was to perm it.
This was the last perm I ever consented to. Never ever again.
I also rocked colored demin shorts (that came to my knee and were rolled up), neon shirts that I pulled to my side with one of those stop sign clips (anyone know what I mean? I forget what they were really called), and scrunchie socks. I wore two pairs on each foot and would alternate colors.
Hot. And of course my hair was in a banana clip. CLEARLY.
In high school, I went through a phase where I wore pleated skirts and knee socks. I thought I was some kind of naughty school girl. (Surprisingly, this was before Hit Me Baby One More Time was released. Britney stole my look.) I also had the most terrible taste in shoes – I clunked around in these terrible platform shoes. One pair looked almost like Keds sneakers, but they had a 5 inch platform on the bottom.
Geesh.
Now that I’ve embarrassed myself, I want to hear from you. What were your fashion mistakes?
15 comments:
Oh honey I was the queen of the banana clip. I was also queen of the teased up bangs and side "wings". Haha
This post is hilarious! I too thought polo shirts and khaki shorts were cooler than my own clothes. Why did we think dressing like a boy was cute?
I had some very similar issues! Mine revolved around bad perms & glasses mostly. I also remember the time when it was cool to wear clothes that were too big for you and when it turned 60* it was warm enough for shorts with a sweatshirt!
Oh, I'm picking up what you're putting down! We had a whole lot of the same problems. You're braver than me though...I only owned up to two. :-)
Mine was those awful wind breakers! Everyone kept buying me and my cousin those for Christmas. It got very irritating after a while.
I blame my mother for all of my fashion mistakes. This is the woman who thinks my hair looks best if I let it air dry until it's a big, frizzy mess. She's been wearing her hair the same way since 1980, so apparently perming her daughter's hair was her way of experimenting.
I hated tweezing my eyebrows (not to mention I had no clue what i was doing), so once I got a job at 16, I had them waxed every once in a while.
I'm pretty sure 7-9th grade was just a terrible time for me fashion wise. I did all the same things you did!
Oh and remember those tshirts that changed color when you wore them? I never did because duh I lived in South Dakota and who would want different colored armpits. Whoever invented those shirts hated teenagers!
I actually liked your hair in the first picture! I'm short so I puff the bangs out just to give myself a little bit of extra height.
I've never been into fashion. It always seemed like everyone had nicer clothes than me but I got what my parents could afford which wasn't much. We did shop for new outfits at least, instead of going to thrift stores. I shop at thrift stores all the time now since I have no money but I'd have been embarrassed about it as a teen. I remember buying a used prom dress and was mortified when everyone kept asking me where I got it and I didn't want to tell anyone.
Love the pictures.. I so did the neon color stuff and the double socks.. I forgot about it until you brought me down to memory lane.. That stop sign clip thing was a must too.. Have a great day..
I have one word for you:
Parachute pants!
Love this post! How fun! I need to dig out some of my old pics at my parents and laugh at myself. I remember my 8th grade picture, it was hideous. I wore a large sweater w/ turtleneck, my naturally curly hair was semi-straightened w/ a headband and I topped it off with one of my mom's gold necklaces. Stop me. Why didn't anyone stop me.
I was an 80s/90s kid and lived in spandex shorts with oversize shirts tied to one side only to move on to sweat outfits and stirrup pants. Lovely.
OMG! Those pictures are 100% greatness Andrea!! I am still laughing! I can sooo relate. I bet we're close to the same age. Oh the memories....
My 5th grade year I got lice. I had long hair. My mom chopped it off to get all the lice out. I hated her for a few months after that. I looked like a boy.
I will never show my school pictures. EVER! Let's just say time has been good to me. Very, very good!
I actually like you in your brothers polo, you look like everyone else did back then. You're way too hard on yourself.
OMG! I love all these. Apparently, we had very similar styles growing up. hahaha
I love these pics -I have the same ones with the SAME fashion mistakes that we all thought were COOL!!
~Becca
I had to skip this one because I was too embarrassed to admit all my fashion mistakes over the years. Just like you though, one of mine involved a perm. :)
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