Friday, July 23, 2010

Blessed Are We Who Can Laugh at Ourselves.....

......for we shall never cease to be amused.

I have received many smarmy messages from my friends who took such pleasure in seeing my 13 year old self with that gray hair and bangs feathered to oblivion.  I thought  it might be fun for you/them to see the whole picture.

First of all, let me lay it down for you.  I don't care what you think of it; I adored that dress. I was Bohemian even though we didn't know what Bohemian was on the south side of Oklahoma City. I usually wore it with boots. Yes, it looks like drapery and yes, the vest could have been a matching bedspread but that dress made me feel pretty on the inside in spite of the mess that obviously prevailed on the exterior.

Also important to note is how I didn't have any eyebrows. I used to pluck them, much to the chagrin of my mother. It was many years later before I discovered I had been born with a near perfect brow line. People pay good money to have their eyebrows shaped like mine. What was I thinking?

Finally, it was my idea to have the photo taken with my two dogs. Prissy, the portly poodle and Ted Lee, our chihuahua, which was named (by my brother) in honor of Ted Nugent. Prissy was calm and accepting because, well,  she couldn't have jumped off if her life depended on it.  Ted was thinking, ay caramba what the hell did I do wrong that I'm on top of a mock Grecian column wearing this ridiculous red sweater?

And so there it is. A moment captured in time. A girl who could seriously never get her hair right and a dress that I would wear today if I only I could be lucky enough to find it.

11 comments:

  1. I'm thinking we're around the same age. I had that hair! If you didn't have feathers you weren't anything!

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  2. That poodle has a stomach tumor I believe. I like that dress. Very South Side and tres chic! We were so blessed with that fashion sense, just like my Dockers! Keep up the daily blogging! It's a bright spot in my day!!

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  3. Bipolar Diva - So true, isn't it?

    Dr. C - It's not a tumor. She was just over served!

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  4. That distinctive gold lettering logo! It's Glen Mills studios! Perpetrators of many an embarrassing photo. Are you from the Midwest (as am I)? That would explain a lot

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  5. UB - Yes, it's Olan Mills! I'm from Oklahoma, not sure if that's considered Midwest - some say it is south. I currently live in Milwaukee, which is definitely the Midwest!

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  6. I could not help but notice that that your photograph did not have the year underneath "Olan Mills" I guess they started doing that after I was born...

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  7. Hi, came visiting via FF 40 +Over. I so enjoy looking at photos of frozen moments of teenage years. I recall those dresses. I thought they were cute. I'm almost curious to see what I can find of myself in the Mama's photo albums.

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  8. Thanks Su-Sieee. You should definitely look back at your old photos. So fun to see yourself through grown up eyes!

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  9. I think I had that dress! Going to paw through my mother's photo albums and find it! I really love your blog ;)

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  10. Gretchen - I'm starting to wonder if we didn't all have that dress, and here I thought I was so cool! Thanks for stopping by!

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  11. I love that dress. I was always working the vest. Respect the vest. And the middle part.

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