What did your parents dress you in?

Last night me and willow zander got into some embarassing stories about what our parents would send us to school in.. is there something your parents made you wear you dreaded? Pictures get a bonus laugh!

Everything I wore as a kid was embarrasing, then again... it was the '70s after all

I was certainly dressed up in some hideous outfits by my parents, however, it's all OK now because it's my turn to have the fun. Yesterday we went to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival and I put our 8-week old daughter into a Little-Pumkin outfit. The rest is family history.

~Ulrika~

I lucked out. My parents, especially my Dad, had KILLER taste in school clothes. Every once in awhile, he'd walk in from work and drop some incredible shirt or something on me. I always got compliments from fellow students and teachers alike on anything my parents picked out.

All my emotional scars are from my own shopping trips as a middle-schooler...nobody else to blame

-- jj

Awww . . . adorable picture, Ulrika! My girls, too, had a pumpkin outfit, but not as babies; theirs fit them when they were each about 4.

My mother never got me up in anything I hated (though my stepmother did, when I was a teenager and met her, but she meant well, so I wore them, even though a couple were true horrors - I remember one was actually cute). In fact, I could write a nice book detailing my favorite outfits through the years. And several of them would include some outfits she sewed for me. My favorite outfit when I was a kid, though, was a brown plaid dress we bought at the thrift store for 50 cents. For some reason, I loved that thing. (Still have it, too, cause she saved it.)

As a teenager, I dressed myself, and did a bang-up job with it, I must say - set off several trends, and copped to others before anyone else in school did. As a mom, I really, really loved dressing my girls up in their little duds, including nearly-matching sundresses, basket purses, and headbands I sewed them with Mary Englebreit fabric, which ended up getting us dragged out of line snaking for blocks outside the Mary Englebreit store even though the line had been cut off, so we could meet and have their picture taken with Mary herself!!!

Ah yes, clothes. I could go on and on with a million stories. I really should write that book. I've thought about it before, and thought I'd call it, "Outfits I have Known and Loved." I oughta do it, just for fun, and for posterity's sake.

coco

At least you didn't carve a jack-o-lantern!

Mei Garden has really good food in Santa Cruz if you are down that way:
Mei Garden Daily 11am-10pm (11pm Fri-Sat). 533 Ocean St., 831.458.1687

Lunch will run you something like $5 a person. Probably some of the best fried rice I've ever had. I used to go there every time I was in the area, although I would not do so now because I don't eat that stuff anymore. But it sure was yummy.

As the youngest of 4 children, my mother had pretty much stopped trying to dictate any clothing styles by the time I was old enough to care. As long as it wasn't anything inappropriate for my age, she let me pick out my own clothes.

The leg warmers, the rainbow print shirt, the black rubber bracelets, the overly large hoop earrings and cross earrings, the parachute pants, the Cavariccis, the uber-baggy sweaters, the white men's Oxford with skinny tie worn as a necklace... all my own fault.

My family lived in Mexico and then Thailand which is where they picked me up, so I wore a lot of little poufy embroidered Mexican shirts and Thai silk dresses ...

At least until I went to kindergarten back in the States and decided I had to be a fairy princess every day. I was once made to wear a short plaid skirt (Ohhhhh, the horror! Can you imagine anything more un-fairy-princesslike than a PLAID SKIRT?!).

I was so gosh-darn stubborn though that my mom didn't force the issue too often.

Either "Pink Litmus Paper Shirt"... or... "The Bedroom"

.. most of my younger years I was dressed in ”trendy black”...as my parents was mostly in ”trendy black”.. so nowdays I dress in a lot of colours..