International Nesties
dulcemariamar1
member
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How did you dress in high school?
Did your parents control your clothes? My mom would never let me leave the house in shorts. I had to wear pants, a skirt, dress or capri pants but she would never let me wear shorts in high school. She was kinda of strict about my clothes. I cant believe what kids wear today. I wouldnt even wear that stuff today. Dont they have dress codes?
I didnt give my parents a lot of trouble in high school. The first two years, I was like a hippie and then I went through a mod phase. I was really strange.
Re: How did you dress in high school?
I was very into the grunge and hippie thing. I wanted to wear my thrift store jeans (which I had added ribbons to) with men's white v-neck undershirts. I used to wear a lot of my older brother's stuff too.
My mom hated it, she wanted me to look feminine and more clean-cut. So I used to change in the car on the way to work. While driving!
I wore a uniform to school every day, so it was relatively easy to get out of the house argument-free with my parents. Is it terrible that I am looking forward to going back to NYC where the kids have to wear uniforms to public school? Dressing my daughter in the morning easily takes up half of our getting ready time.
On weekends, I went for the all-black-I-love-the-Cure-and-the-Smiths look. Grunge became a bigger thing my last year of high school and I started college wearing lots of flannel and baggy jeans. I hate that look now.
I was in HS from '87-'91, so the fashion style was pretty tame, plus it wasn't my personal style to show a lot of skin. The only thing I remember my parents saying something about was the trend of wearing men's boxer shorts either under our school uniforms or over our bikini bottoms. They still let me do it, but they thought it was weird - especially when I would shop in the men's underwear section of Kmart! hahaha
I have a feeling we are about the same age. I was in HS from 87-91 as well.
I lived 3 minutes from the school, walking, so I would get up at the last possible minute, shower, throw my wet hair into a bun, and wear fleece pants and a long sleeve to school. That was pretty much my uniform, though I would occasionally wear jeans. I didn't discover make-up until college, and I still hardly ever wear it.
I do dry my hair now though.
We had a dress code in my school, but I tried to wear as much black as I could...in my off-hours I was relatively alternative/punk rocker. 1983-1987 were my years.
alternative-punk-rocker-old-school-goth (no hot topic). The first few years I would still wear jeans (usually ripped) after that it was skirts/leather pants all the way. Between 1993 and probably 2002 (last 3 years of high school and pretty much all through college and my first year of working I guess) I didn't own any jeans, hardly any pants at all to be honest.
The only colors in my closet were black purple and dark red/burgundy.
I still wear a lot of black, but I do own jeans, many different kinds and styles of pants and different colors now.
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI was in high school from '97-'00. My first two years I went through a punk rock phase and wore a lot of clothes that I bought at thrift stores..My last 2 years of high school I became more "trendy".
On weekend nights I would wear jeans and a wholesome shirt out...as soon as we left my driveway out came my ity bity tank top, low low rise jeans, and large chunky heels...I'm cringing typing this...thank god my style has evolved through the years...oh but what I would give to fit into those jeans again!
My parents were also very lackadaisical when it came to my clothing choices. They justified it as "letting me express myself" and "assuming I would grow out of it" - in reality, I think they just didn't want the trouble of having to tell me what to do (to be fair, I was a total beeyotch at that age). In all of my teenage wisdom, I responded by dressing as outlandish as possible.
I remember a few of my favorite clothing items that I have actually packed up and saved: hot pink fuzzy leopard print pants, leather pants with fluffy fur from the knee down, a sweater jacket with fluffy blue trim. I was all over anything fishnet, safety pins, animal prints, neon pink, or fluffy. My hair was another story all together... I think it's been every color of the rainbow.
I remember once in tenth grade I showed up in pink parachute pants, a pink top, neon pink sneakers and pink pom-poms in my hair. A teacher asked me which organization I was being "hazed" for (like, when the sports teams make the new kids dress up in stupid outfits and come to school.)
I dressed like this every day, and I still had the nerve to wonder why I got picked on. Oh, teenage self...