Comments on: Bad Hair AND Bad Socks Day

By: Shalimar

Shalimar — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:53:36 +0000

I love this photo and the theme. Reminds me of two fashion flops (of many more of course). The first is the white Chevron gas station attendent outfit I got at Sears and wore in 3rd and 4th grades – what??? Dress for success, I guess? Then there’s the great picture of me in my “I’m with stupid” shirt, which while the arrow pointed at my brother, I’m the one with the bad perm, braces, idiotic grin and an open fly. I’ll have to dig that one up…

By: Blythe

Blythe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:56:47 +0000

OOOH, a code word!
I kind of love Lillian Vernon.
And I never thought about the kidnapping scenario. Possibly because anyone who didn’t know me would mispronounce my name anyway.

By: Daniela

Daniela — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:35:27 +0000

I also suffered from the nothing with my name on it syndrome. My grandma would buy pencils from Lillian Vernon and have my name put on it.

My mom would never let me get a shirt with
my name on it because (and you will know this to be true because you’ve met my mom) she was afraid that a KIDNAPPER … In Hoquiam, WA pop. 6,000 … would see me in the shirt, shout out my name and then I would turn my head. And then when he went to kidnap me later, people would think “he can’t be kidnapping her, he called her name out earlier and she turned her head so she must know him.”

Remind me someday to tell you about the secret code word we had to memorize in case she was ever in an accident and someone said they were picking us up for her …

By: Rhi

Rhi — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:29:44 +0000

I would have DIED to have a shirt like that when I was little.

(and confession: I STILL look for my name on coffee mugs, keychains, etc.)