My Fashion History - Part 1

So, those who know me know that I just love the 1980s. No surprise. I was a teen in the 80s, so I'm a little partial. :)

So, in honor of that, I thought I'd share some of my fashion hits and misses from my youth. I've got a couple from when I was just a wee lass to my teen years. I had my moments of pure fashion bliss to complete fashion miss!

These photos are family photos, so there are few of just me or of me posing alone for the camera. So, you'll just have to bear.

Without further adieu, here are some of my fashions from my younger years. This will be a few entries entry.




This is me at 2 months old. I think I saw my first pair of stilettos and couldn't wait to be old enough to wear them.

I know you can't make much of my outfit, but it's this adorable 1970s yellow dress and diaper cover. I don't have kids, so I don't know what they're really called. I always called them "Baby Bloomers"! :)




And, here I am at just around 2. Either yellow was HUGE in the 1970s or my mom just wanted to put me in yellow almost all the time. Must have looked good in it.

Guess I found another pair of stilettos I wanted. Either that or I found my fashion inspiration. Maybe the lady walking around in her leisure suit and I thought that was wrong. Even then.

But, this dress was one my mom put me in a lot. I don't have all the pictures with me in this dress, but I guess she did make me wear this a lot. Not that I complained. It was a cute dress. Especially with those socks and Mary Janes.




One of my own personal favorite outfits. I wasn't wearing the boots I loved to wear with it. They were these black and red velvet Victorian - esque boots. I think I wore them with everything.

I just look at my brother and laugh. Believe it or not, we were both really styling back then.

But, there are several pictures of me in this dress. I don't have those pictures on computer. If I can ever get the pictures on computer, I'll post those.

But, this dress was so comfortable that I sometimes wish it still fit to this very day!

But, I think my brother's glad his outfit doesn't fit! :)




The think I love about this dress was that I always felt like I was a cute Christmas gift. I think this dress is responsible for my love of bows.

I love the little page-boy hair cut that I have. It saved me a lot of headaches since I was cursed with hair that LOVES to tangle and tangle very easily.




I don't know if you can see what I'm wearing or not. Yes, it's a brown (tan) corduroy skirt and a tee shirt. Not sure if the shirt has a design or not. Maybe this pic will blow up and we can see.

I used to wear skirts a lot growing up, even though, as you can see here, I was a bit of a tomboy. I don't know why I was digging in our back yard, except it was more than likely fun to do.

I wore this outfit to school a lot and since it was Florida and it got hot in the summer, this honestly was the perfect summer outfit.

And, it was also really perfect for digging random holes in your backyard.

Thus, upsetting your parents and making them laugh at the same time.





I love this outfit. This shirt was one of my favorites. You don't see the cute little pink bow that was on the front of the shirt. I guess it was either not sitting right or was falling off because I know the teacher took it to hold it for the picture, but she forgot to give it back.

And I forgot to ask for it back.

Yet, I've never forgotten that pink bow. :)

You see the pink bows in my hair and my favorite necklace...it was an angel. I do forget who gave it to me, but I do know that I felt all grown up when I wore it. It was beautiful. I wish I still had it, but growing up in the Navy, you often lose stuff in between moves and it may have gotten lost in one of those moves.



Okay. Laugh and laugh hard at this, but I love this. It was a nod to my Bavarian ancestry. Or that is what I always thought.

Yes, it was that awful polyester that was so popular in the 1970s.

Polyester: Check.
Burnt orange: Check.
Floral Print: Check.
Burgundy: Check.
Bows: Check.
1970s Cream Color: Check.

Yep. It was the 70s. Just look at my brother's belt and BattleStar Galactica shirt. I just shake my head and laugh.


Look at this long maxi dress I'm wearing! I think my mom loved this dress because there were like literally 100 pictures of me in this dress! I had several maxi dresses. This one and the Sesame Street dress I also owned were my faves, but sadly, there are no really good pictures of my Sesame Street dress.

But, what I love about this is the red and white polka dots and the lace. It was so girlie and so feminine that I felt like I was 13. At this age, 13 was so old. :) But, this was a totally awesome dress.

Look at the sunglasses! Yep. I'm a diva in training! haha

I think that was a Hollie Hobbit shirt. It tied in the back and had bell like sleeves. Not true bell sleeves since it was for little girls, but they were bell sleeved enough for me.

In this picture (unseen) I'm wearing a pair of jeans and my favorite tennis shoes: Cortez by Nike. They were the rubber tipped Nikes. Oh, I loved those tennis shoes. Anyone know where I can buy some more?


Final picture of this blog.

I loved plaid when I was a little girl. If it wasn't a plaid skirt, I didn't want to wear it! And, yes. The sweater vest was huge back then!

This was (obviously with the tree in the background) Christmas at my Gramma's house. I don't think I wore this a lot. Maybe I outgrew it, but I don't remember this outfit being around a long time.

But, check out the ribbon barrette in my hair! I wore that thing out. I thought I was cool and stylish. Like the Valley girls. :)

So, there you have it. Some of my fashion hits and misses from my youth. I'll post some more tomorrow or Wednesday. Hope you enjoy my trip down fashion memory lane!