{"id":112,"date":"2010-01-20T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:58:01","slug":"seventh-grade-clothing-a-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/seventh-grade-clothing-a-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh-Grade Clothing: A Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So every month, I post a new poll on my website (www.jessicaleader.com–just<\/a> like this except w\/out the blog)–that relates in some way to Nice and Mean<\/em>.\u00a0 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).\u00a0<\/p>\n

This month, I’ve asked, How did you decide what to wear in seventh grade<\/a>?\u00a0 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.\u00a0 In the name of giving you something interesting to read (because it is, after all, Comment Challenge Month<\/a>, so we’re all hopping on each others’ blogs in search of material juicy enough to comment on), here are some fabby excerpts:<\/p>\n

Stole my stepsister’s jeans and hoped to get home from school before she did so I wouldn’t be caught.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

I can’t remember how, but I do remember never getting it right.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a sweatshirt sporting the emblem of the long running British science fiction show “Doctor Who.” The show aired on public television in my area at 10:30 on Friday nights. I was the only one I knew who watched this show and I reasoned that if I wore that sweatshirt on Fridays it might convince people to watch the show.<\/em><\/div>\n

\nThis was something of\u00a0 <\/span>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.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
It took me a chunk of thinking to create the clothing storyline in Nice and Mean<\/em>–what’s a book about popularity without an inquiry into clothing?–but these responses showcase the down and dirty.\u00a0 If any of you readers are in high school or even middle, take heart–as Virgil said, perhaps one day you will rejoice to remember even this.\u00a0<\/div>\n
If you’re brave enough, feel free to share your sordid tales in the comments.\u00a0\u00a0I can’t promise total catharsis, but levity will probably ensue.\u00a0 (Aka, it will be funny!)<\/div>\n
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