Ya, I used to be blonde

I had a question or more like request on my "ask me anything" space yesterday about Prom and what I wore to my prom.  I sort of laughed because I haven't thought about all of that in a really long time!  I have all of my photos from high school and my youth up in a vintage suitcase so I opened it up and pulled a few things out.  I will give descriptions from the top down.

1. My first fancy high school dance, homecoming sophomore year, so like 94.  I went stag.  Strapless lace, so pretty simple accessories, just a little black purse.  My friend went in a similar dress only not lace and in gray.  I cannot remember where we got them but we planned to dress similarly and felt like pretty hot stuff! 
2. This was homecoming junior year.  Again with the black.  It is velvet up top and super soft.  I got it at Ross.  I kissed this boy like one time.  
3. Prom my senior year.  I couldn't find a full length photo but this dress was from Windsor and was super clingy and stretchy, floor length with a low cut lace up back.  It flared out slightly at the bottom just at the knee.  I wore it several times actually, once as a "good witch" for halloween. I thought that I had to have an expensive up do for my prom but I really prefer the way I wore it in picture 4.
4. Same dress, boy and year. different party and way better hair (though more visible acne)  I was with this boy for far too long and you can see the stress of the relationship in those huge covered up zits. 
5. This was just a throw in of my very first High School dance, the luau freshman year. I just love how seriously 90s we are! 
6. I wanted to include a couple of regular high school photos too so that you can get an idea of what I lived in during that time.  In this pic I am wearing a blue polo shirt and gray wide wale cords, both from the thrift store.  I was 16 here, junior year, so 96.  As soon as I could drive I began hunting at thrift shops. 
7. The sweater that started it all.  This is me in my very first thrift treasure, my vintage striped sweater.  I wore this thing every freaking day.  It smelled awful.  All the cool art class girls envied this sweater and I am still scouring the shops to replace it.  I have no idea what happened to it.  One day it just disappeared. 
8. Sophomore year when I still rode the bus.  Looking VERY 70's here! I had forgotten about this! 
9. And finally a shot of me and my sis one Easter while we were young and my mom still dressed us and did our hair!  The spots, sailor details, jumpsuit style and saddle shoes are SO HILARIOUS to look at now! 

I have not been online much at all this week.  Just to get these posts up!  Its been a weird week, but I think I will be able to have more of a presence and return more of your emails and comments soon.  Please just bare with me! I have been receiving some really beautiful and sweet blog awards as well and have not been able to accept them here yet, but I have not forgotten them.  Thank you to those of you who thought to include me in the awards!! And thank you so much for all of your very generous comments. So SO sweet, sincere, encouraging and thoughtful.  I know we are all busy people and I am always so grateful to those of you who take the time to comment.  Even when I am seemingly absent.  You are so amazing to me.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:  Kimbrerellie!  Your comments are so sweet and always make me smile!  I think you bring up an excellent point here too about youth and pop culture.  I think girls are way more sophisticated now and I am not sure exactly why.  I have my theories.  I always read that your teens and 20s are the years you are supposed to be in your prime beauty wise, and most experimental fashion wise, but I was really conservative and not very savvy at all.  I am not sure if it's a generational thing or what, but my late teens and 20s were the pits!

Kimberellie said...

You know, you look just so incredibly different! It is amazing. I actually very very much like I did in high school (one day I think I will do this and put up photos, I'll let you know!).
Anyway, I wanted to let you know, you look so much more beautiful now! I mean, don't get me wrong, you were a very pretty girl, but you are a beautiful women. I'm not trying to flatter you here either. I sincerely think so.
I think it's great. So much hollywood etcetera pop culture you know is always YOUNG YOUNG YOUNG. But here you are, and you are just getting more beautiful the older you get!
--I actually feel the same way about myself. I think I am getting cuter with age (and more modest).
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