tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post5204095101486190231..comments2024-03-25T09:59:02.715-07:00Comments on Eat The Blog: If It Still Fits, Wear ItGoodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-8336338271694982922020-01-17T09:39:11.675-08:002020-01-17T09:39:11.675-08:00Your mother does sound like a bit of a horror when...Your mother does sound like a bit of a horror when it came to buying you clothes. The dress looks nice now - though I reckon your spikes probably looked better than the 'bowl'. (I had a bowl cut through choice about aged 15, in the late 80s. Looking at the photos now, no wonder I was an outcast...)<br /><br />I still have a cream cable cardigan from my mid-teens. Poor old thing's quite worn round the cuffs now. And I've hung onto a few bits from 18-25, though they're the ones that weren't quite my favourites, as I literally wore those out.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-68860861967241806612020-01-15T02:14:48.139-08:002020-01-15T02:14:48.139-08:00woww, what a fab post!.
I've felt totally in...woww, what a fab post!. <br />I've felt totally indentified with the 'It wasn’t my fault punk happened' thing. Also with the pressure to be thinner and look like a mini-me of my mother, even if I've been always very different shaped. But I think that your description of the clothes she bought you is the best part, you made me laugh loud and you made me also feel a lot of love for you, poor young lady!.<br />I remember being a thirteen years old girl, taller and bigger than mom herself and she made me wear a ridiculously childish dress to a wedding. Pigtails and all. I looked like a giant doll. No wonder that then I was a 'dressed in black and safety pins' kind of teenager. Karma?.<br />She's still really conventional, judgemental and obsessed with weight (bless her). <br />I've loved to read about your beloved clogs and how you wore them until they fall apart. Due to 80's oversized trend, I think I might wear some of my then favourites!<br />besos<br /><br />Señora Allnuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01403540346998939207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-56734505761649270392020-01-14T17:36:07.640-08:002020-01-14T17:36:07.640-08:00@Vix
Someday you'll find that jumpsuit again-i...@Vix<br />Someday you'll find that jumpsuit again-it has to be out there somewhere.<br /><br />@Ann<br />Maybe we can make bumper stickers that say it. <br />In fairness, I was big for a 13 year old. I'm probably slightly smaller now. <br /><br />@Veronica<br />I'm sure the pub was more fun ;)<br />Mind boggling that an adult would say something like that to a child. <br /><br />@Beate<br />It makes perfect sense. I think it might be a cultural universal that teenagers don't like the clothes parents want them to wear. <br /><br />@Miss Magpie<br />The things we teens did to keep our parents happy!<br />I was a big teenager. I didn't grow much after. <br /><br />@Emily<br />Every once in a while I do some searches for my beloved shoes, but so far they haven't turned up. Someday. Probably at the same time I find the Paganne maxi I've been looking for since the early 70s ;)<br /><br />@Beth<br />Those sound like beautiful pieces! <br /><br />@Bibi<br />Dunner *shudder*. I wore that crap when I started working in the early 80s. Koret had some nice stuff though a polyester pantsuit wouldn't look good on anyone. I wear them, but with a hell of a lot of irony. <br /><br />Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-27415181036323175682020-01-11T08:15:33.522-08:002020-01-11T08:15:33.522-08:00For some reason, my mom insisted on buying me hide...For some reason, my mom insisted on buying me hideous matronly polyester outfits too. My mom was very fond of Alfred Dunn & Koret pantsuits. Scratchy and hot, miserable and ill-fitting. Dreadful things. My schoolmates really had a good laugh. I'm certain those Gawd-awful pantsuits are still making the rounds at some central California thrift store - that 70s-80s polyester never wore out and is definitely not biodegradable!<br />You've certainly made that dress look swank with that lovely jacket you've paired it with!Bibi Maizoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383381158640915162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-66637965293273788812020-01-09T18:54:49.119-08:002020-01-09T18:54:49.119-08:00You've limited the selection with the criteria...You've limited the selection with the criteria of "still fitting". Hmmmm….<br />When I downsized, I discarded almost all the relics of my long-ago youth.<br />However, there is still hanging in the garment bag of formal wear a full length hooded cotton velvet evening coat I wore to a dance in 196-. The occasion was held in one of the snowiest winters on record, and even my father could see my tweed winter coat didn't cover my ballerina ball gown.<br />Once white, it had aged to ivory when it had an outing for a friend's wedding in 198-. She wore the coat, while her daughter-the-bride wore my vintage white faux fur chubby. Now that I've checked, it's still intact, but growing creamy...Beth Waltzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02720634636307254576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-89867576964307549952020-01-08T14:25:38.321-08:002020-01-08T14:25:38.321-08:00Jumpsuits and play suits and track suits are so ve...Jumpsuits and play suits and track suits are so very '70s, in a charming way, but bright orange is the one color that would be hard to pull off, even for the most ironic style maven. It's just too prison-like! : )<br /><br />You were smart to hang on to the green dress-- it's beautiful and you can wear it stylishly anywhere. And those magnificent green and yellow shoes may very well turn up some day at a thrift store near you, or on the Internet. <br /><br />Emily from Etsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-56604240388714985602020-01-08T12:40:58.012-08:002020-01-08T12:40:58.012-08:00I love your story of the wedding reminds me of a s...I love your story of the wedding reminds me of a similar situation I was in when I was full on into glam (hair) metal and had a family wedding. My hair was still enormous and I still wore a frilled shirt but I compromised on a blue skirt suit with them! <br /><br />Sadly I am about 5 stone heavier now so there's no way I could fit in anything *sigh* I still wear a gorgeous ring I bought in an antique centre back in the day but it only fits on my little finger now :(Miss Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899889154015378547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-69791007887648288622020-01-08T01:46:54.130-08:002020-01-08T01:46:54.130-08:00wow!
for you looking fabulous in your vintage outf...wow!<br />for you looking fabulous in your vintage outfit - this colors!!!<br />and wow for that the dress is still around - and fit you.<br />love reading your stories, beside of that we´d grow up with some years, a whole ocean and the iron curtain between us - i can find my own expieriences in them - and your "slightly sarcastic" story telling helps me to sort them out... (does that make sense in english?)<br /><br />@clothing: there is NO CHANCE i would still fit in my teen clothes, do not even fit in the ones i wore with 40 anymore.... the rural life since 9 years made esp. my back/shoulders grow to the walkyrie frame that i have now.... but i still use a pair of red woolen mittens, a folky scarf and some legwarmers from my teens....<br />xxxxxbahnwärterinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02032478343344432338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-63774825850130575472020-01-07T09:59:05.928-08:002020-01-07T09:59:05.928-08:00Danny is the spit of you! In the picture of the gr...Danny is the spit of you! In the picture of the green dress worn for the wedding, I mean...<br /><br />The story was great and I have to say some of the things you described your mum as buying you sounded pretty cool to me! My mum bought me quite funky/decent clothes; but the one I loved and remember the best was not from mum but from a friend of hers and it was a Christmas present for me. An emerald green, fine corduroy dress with a zip up the front. Mum cut it down to a mini dress for me; I thought it looked fab. I was 14 and wore it to mass the following Sunday.<br /><br />As we went to mass on ours own (sans parents), as children we had to sit at the front. After the mass was over an older came over to me and berated me for 'tempting the priest' in my mini skirt! She must have known something about the Catholic priesthood then that most of us didn't...anyway it was last time I ever attended mass. I used to meet my friends down the pub instead!<br /><br />It's fabulous you can still wear something you owned in the 70s; I'd never be able to get into anything from the 70s.<br />xxxxVronni's Style Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122302881528071270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-89056222654103360432020-01-07T03:29:52.608-08:002020-01-07T03:29:52.608-08:00I had a good chuckle at "It wasn’t my fault p...I had a good chuckle at "It wasn’t my fault punk happened". How I would have loved to use that as an excuse when my parents were on at me at what I was wearing. And I'm hearing you: that dress might be something I would gladly wear now, but there is NO WAY my Mum would have got me into that dress in the 1970s. And anything from back then definitely wouldn't fit me now! Loved seeing that old photo of you, I can totally see Danny in you there, but maybe it's best not to tell him ;-) xxx Polyester Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05602613792584925087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-64573355931325214802020-01-07T00:24:42.702-08:002020-01-07T00:24:42.702-08:00Morning! That was a cracking read.
My Mum had out...Morning! That was a cracking read.<br /><br />My Mum had outlandish taste and always kitted me out in the craziest stuff - Biba hand-me-downs, vintage kimonos, 1950s French party dresses. I left home as a teenager and lived in a variety of rented hovels and the clothes I took with me tended to get left behind or nicked by flatmates. <br />The thing I most miss is the zip-up olive green satin jumpsuit by Lee Bender at Bus Stop Mum bought me for my 13th Birthday in an attempt to make me look like Debbie Harry from Blondie in the Tide Is High Video, I'm still the same height and weight as I was back then and I know it would fit me perfectly. Vixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05263970600699632661noreply@blogger.com