I'm willing to share small tidbits of me. Who I am. What I experience. Why I do what I do. Just ramdom thoughts from me. Enjoy!
Who?
Name::Random me From::California, United States
I am a wife and mother of two boys. I work full-time in the electronics industry. It took me 6 years to graduate college (no, I'm not embarrassed-I finished, Dammit!) SJSU class of 1990. I love to cook, because I love good food. I'll pass on sweets, but will eat something with garlic or onion in a minute. I HATE cheese, except Mozzerella on pizza-and that has to be combination pizza. I hate chick flicks, but love a good thriller. My husband and I are real estate investors on the side. View my complete profile
You know what cracks me up? People who were cool and hip in one decade and like, 10 – 20 years later they’re not so cool anymore. This happens because they are STILL wearing that same shit they were wearing back in the day when it was in style.
One of my boyfriend’s room mates back in the 80’s was stuck in the 70’s. This Cat was super skinny, wore tight bell bottom jeans all the time, had a slightly shaggy beard and long, wavy hair past his shoulders - This Cat looked like "Jesus Christ". Seriously. My boyfriend and I convinced him to cut his hair one summer. I mean, this guy was going to be the best man in his friend’s wedding and we told him he would fuck up the pictures if he didn’t cut his hair. We also convinced him to shave the beard. Ok, we later realized that shaving the beard was a bad idea -This guy had NO chin. My boyfriend (who later became my husband) used to say, "T looked like he shaved with a machete".
Anyway, he was able to grow some of the beard back before the wedding, so he didn’t look like a total freak, except for the tux that he rented with flooding flared bottoms… I thought, "Where in the HELL did he find those??" I mean, who rented flares in the late 80s and why didn’t the tux guy measure him correctly?? What the heck?
So fast forward to today. There is a woman in my office, I suspect she was probably really, really sharp back in the 80s. But the 80s are over. Way over. So very very over. I want to tell her. I NEED to tell her. The big poofy "Alexis-Carrington-Dynasty" hair is over. The 80s style spectator-style pumps in red and black are dead—especially when worn with black tights. Or the Gunny-Sack style skirts with the "Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Little-House-on-the-Prairie" blouse… DEAD! I hope I don’t have a "Tourette’s Syndrome" moment and say to her in a normal work conversation, "Yes, I will call the engineer and get the H rev cFlash approved. << tick >> << shrug >>....The 80’s called and they want their clothes AND hair back! Once the ECN is approved, I'll notify you."
My father in law went though this too. I was so glad when he took my husband’s advice and shaved off his sideburns before our wedding. He had some Elvis-style sideburns (my husband called them "Porkchops") .You know the kind that were all the rage in the early 70’s, especially amongst the pimp set, but it was 1990 for goodness sake!! 1990! Clearly time for them to go! And he was NOT going to fuck up MY pictures.
Keep in mind, there’s a time and a place for retro style, and for the most part it’s best that we not hang on to those clothes and say, "This will be back in style one day". Yes, it will. But the updated version will not make you look like a freak. Not everyone knows how to rock the retro style by actually wearing something from the era they are trying to replicate. Most don't. Play it safe, buy it again when the style comes back.
I certainly, hope as the decades go by I continue to purge the old and embrace the new. Because, I never ever, ever, ever, ever look like I have lost my damn mind and be so out of date that I get attention for it. I realize I don’t need to be cutting edge, but I don’t want to look like I fell asleep a decade or two ago and just woke up either. Now, I have to get used to these new pointy toed-shoes, whether I'm ready or not. In the meantime, I'll keep praying the jheri curl doesn't make a reappearance in the reinvented 80's retro style of this decade. That would be cruel.
Posted by Random me ::
9:30 PM ::
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