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Feeling Cute in My 3-Piece Suit

Let’s face it.  The 70’s are like shooting fish in a bucket.

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Return of the Sisterwife

I don’t have to say much about this dress.  So I won’t.  Except to say that I did actually wear something similar when I was about 11.  But I was 11 and it was the early 80’s.  This dress is … Continue reading

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Ode to a Sweatervest

Ode to a Sweatervest O sweatervest that hast no voice, confide to me a voice, O harvest of the closet — O boundless knitted sack, O lavish appliqued scarecrow design — O infinite teeming autumnal embroidery, A song to narrate … Continue reading

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Shorts Suit Special

There was this time just after the 80’s when the we felt a rustling of change in the stratosphere.  When Pearl Jam and Nirvana were starting to steal the airwaves from Debbie Gibson and New Kids on the Block.  The … Continue reading

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Enmeshed

Mommy make it stop!  Please make it not be a shit-brown background with gigantic muted blue and tan roses and swirly swashes of orange and puke green.  Please make the atrocious pattern not be printed on stretch mesh.  And please … Continue reading

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Scissor Shredded Sister

There are a lot of things I don’t understand about this world.  I dont understand how people can be cruel to children.  I don’t understand why people think God wants them to wage war.  I don’t understand why the ads … Continue reading

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Hairy Jacket

Alexis is smiling so sweetly while she models this hairy leopard print blouse/jacket.  Little was she to know that seconds later this garment prickled to life and devoured her, limb by limb, in a symphony of carnage the likes of … Continue reading

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Taste the Rainbow

You may think this picture is out of focus because it was shot in low light, with an iphone camera, on the fly without time to focus, rushing through the process because there was a long line of people waiting … Continue reading

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Watercolored Wonder

Alexis looks fine in this shiny florida-bungalow-sofa-fabric Jackie O suit with miniature plastic cheese Danish posing as buttons. She looked so fine that 3 different people who worked there told her how great she looked and commented that she should … Continue reading

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Calico Patchwork Sack of Dress

Remember Holly Hobby?  Remember when Holly Hobby started feeling pressured by her manager who constantly reminded her that her career is based on maintaining a flat, slim-looking profile so she developed an eating disorder and one night when the stress … Continue reading

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