Did you know that it's 1987 again?
Jul. 16th, 2008 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosOn my way to work (yes, I am at work today!), I saw two guys on the bus. Both looked anywhere between 16-19. Both were little hipsters. Both were quite indie-trendy. But one, were it not for his ipod, looked like 1987 personified. From head to toe:
-faux shag/mullet hair cut
-large thin framed red sunglasses (these do not look good on anyone! ack!)
-new wave t-shirt (couldn't read it from my vantage point)
-super skinny black jeans PEGGED (oh god, why??)
-and the icing on the cake? white KEDS
Holy goodness.
Of course, I have become a dowdy nursing mother, still wearing her "coolest" maternity jeans, wearing ill-fitting bras, in need of a lip and brow wax. Eesh. What little style I had has been killed dead. If only I managed to hang on to my junior high wardrobe, I'd be rockin'.... white Esprit bag, keds, swatch watches, and acid washed jeans anyone?
-faux shag/mullet hair cut
-large thin framed red sunglasses (these do not look good on anyone! ack!)
-new wave t-shirt (couldn't read it from my vantage point)
-super skinny black jeans PEGGED (oh god, why??)
-and the icing on the cake? white KEDS
Holy goodness.
Of course, I have become a dowdy nursing mother, still wearing her "coolest" maternity jeans, wearing ill-fitting bras, in need of a lip and brow wax. Eesh. What little style I had has been killed dead. If only I managed to hang on to my junior high wardrobe, I'd be rockin'.... white Esprit bag, keds, swatch watches, and acid washed jeans anyone?
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Date: 2008-07-17 12:13 am (UTC)Passport, 1984, near end of grad school: close-cropped medium brown hair, pinstripe blouse.
CA driver's licence, 1990, after 5 corporate years: A plethora of curls in chin-length permed blonde-highlighted hair, scarf, polkadot blouse. (Think Alice in "Dilbert". I worked with the woman she was modeled on.)
Blue & Gold Fleet tourist photo, 1990: same haircut, reverse-cut baggy acid-washed jeans, baggy jean jacket, baggy everything. I look 50 pounds heavier.
Passport, 1997: incredibly close-cropped hair, still blondish, round face. Reaction of friend: "Who is that, your MOM?" Well, yeah, now that I look at the similarities.
CA DL, 2002: Chin-length wavy red hair, goddess-y scarf. Clearly a course correction.
Passport, 2008: Long straight red hair, thinner face, simple top. Expression looks a bit surly because I'm trying not to blink at the flash. Otherwise, not too bad.
... So I'm all about the 21st century. Not too much nostalgia, sartorially speaking.