Seventh-Grade Clothing: A Flashback
Posted in Poll results, Uncategorized on 01/20/2010 09:00 am by jess
So every month, I post a new poll on my website (www.jessicaleader.com–just like this except w/out the blog)–that relates in some way to Nice and Mean. The first was about whether you were nice or mean or somewhere in between, back in middle school; last month’s had to do with getting what you want (something both characters have great difficulty doing–one wreaks havoc in her wake; the other one sneaks).
This month, I’ve asked, How did you decide what to wear in seventh grade? People have been voting, with interesting results (honestly, I would not have guessed my friends and acquaintances were quite as conformist, but I suppose we all are, in some way)–but the best responses have come from Facebook. In the name of giving you something interesting to read (because it is, after all, Comment Challenge Month, so we’re all hopping on each others’ blogs in search of material juicy enough to comment on), here are some fabby excerpts:
Stole my stepsister’s jeans and hoped to get home from school before she did so I wouldn’t be caught.
In seventh grade, I think I was shopping at stores like Claire’s. Eighth grade was the year for curlers. The bangs were definitely in a forehead salute.
I can’t remember how, but I do remember never getting it right.
This was something of a social setback, and while the show’s protagonist, the good Doctor, often traveled with a female companion, the opposite was true for me for several years after that.
01/21/2010 at 12:38 pm
Dr. Who fan here, currently experiencing sweatshirt envy! 🙂 Loved reading your post.
I was clueless when it came to fashion in both jr. high and high school. Man. Why didn’t anyone tell me how ridiculous I looked?! I blame my mother, ha!
01/23/2010 at 7:18 pm
Oh, I was in the early 60’s — Bobbie Brooks were we! Whew………all looking alike, bouffant hair, straight skirts with bulky sweaters and then into ban-lon sweater sets. My, oh, my!
01/23/2010 at 11:49 pm
Hi Jessica,
What fun to find you here crusing around the blog comment challenge. Congrats on your upcoming book.
7th grade? Yikes, we were not allowed to wears pants except on one special day of the year–Bell bottom pants day. Need I say more?
01/25/2010 at 1:00 pm
Hi Jessica–
Wow, I think I may have completely blocked out 7th grade. I do remember in 8th grade Izod shirts (we didn’t call them Lacoste back then), Guess jeans, ruffled blouses, Cherokee shoes and prairie skirts.
Eighth grade was the year before a major fashion influence in my life as well as those of my friends: Madonna.
The good news? No pictures remain as proof.
01/26/2010 at 8:45 am
I think this was in ninth grade, but I wrote out all my potential outfits on pieces of paper, put them in an envelope, and drew them out one by one until I was done with all of them. It was all about minimum effort in the morning.
But, this is coming from someone who (eep!) likes calibri, so you have a sense right there of my style savvy…