Sooo I thought you said awkward stage. Didn't you wear that freshman year of college? Hahahahhahaha!

I'm delurking to say hey! We have a lot in common. My baby is one year old on Friday, so I'm a relatively new mommy. And I got preggers after some creative visualization in my yoga class, too! Kundalini yoga is great.

Let's see, I wore some off-brand skinny leg jeans with the zippers on the side of the ankle, a Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt (New Orleans!), or some other t-shirt, tucked in, of course, a perm, and my white keds with about three pair of neon socks worn ON TOP of my jeans. I was so cool. Also, a banana bag. Remember those?

Oh man. Black shorts with white polka dots with a white collared short sleeve shirt with a vest ATTACHED to it that also was black with white polka dots. Matching headband. I was so cool.

Hmm, that would imply that I've exited my awkward stage? I do vaguely recall an ensemble including checked jeans (as opposed to pinstriped) or my regular jeans with the ankles pegged, a pastel shaker sweater with matching slouch socks and white high-topped Reebok sneakers. Oh dear...

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I'll just say that everything I wore in the mid-80s was my awkward stage. That's enough: I know you can just picture neon, oversized shirts, leggings, high tops, and Aqua Net hairspray!

Dug the L.A. Gears as well!

I don't even have the 80s as an excuse, but I used to wear a long, floaty, sheer! black skirt with a short-ish slip (mid calf?)and a totally different black tee shirt. The only variation would be to layer overalls. The horror! The horror!

Luckily, no one I knew in middle school knows me now. :)

Okay, if you're talking about the puberty awkward stage, then it's blue-and-white vertical stripe satin shorts and a white t-shirt with attached mesh vest which has vertical stripes of mint green, yellow, pink. With teal jelly shoes, naturally. Or alternatively a black t-shirt of the same mesh-vest-attached style, only this vest is red and black tiger striped and I wore it with black pleather pants or with stonewash jeans with all of the flappy pockets that fold down and stay folded open with snaps. That was probably about a year after the shorts outfit, actually, age twelve and then age thirteen.

I also had a few sweet outfits in grade nine (age thirteen/fourteen): one was blue plaid trousers worn with a sherbety-orange t-shirt beneath a bright orange boxy short sleeved button-up shirt with a big collar (turned up, of course) and covered in a black paint-splashes pattern, topped off by big orange plastic triangle earrings. The other outfit was inspired by Lisa Bonet, who I thought was the height of cool: gray jersey harem pants that tapered in to tight ankles, tucked in to those new wave flat boots with the big foldover leg (I had black ones and gray ones). The shirt was salmon pink with a pattern of black squiggles and geometric shapes, the obligatory turned-up-collar, oversize and boxy with the back about ten inches longer than the front AND I WOULD TUCK THE FRONT INTO THE PANTS AND LEAVE THE BACK HANGING OUT. Oh, hell yeah.

I don't think we should mock our 1985 selves, though. I still think my 1985 self was kind of a snappy dresser, and what I wouldn't give to have those boots back!

Hmmm. I think of all of high school as my awkward phase and I had a few articles of clothing I like to wear a lot but I will go with the only one I still have 15 year later (in a box!). It's a olive flannel shirt. Huge! So comfy. And I bought it at TJ Maxx with this older neighbor boy I had a huge crush on. Ahh memories.

I am still in my awkward stage! But the pictures I hate the most: big hair perm of the early 80's of which I was a new wife, new mother and 800 pounds over weight and wearing huge shoulder pads. Hind sight ~ this shit only made matters worse!!

Wow, we dressed similer in our stage.
I would where black pants, a bright color turtle neck , black suspenders, and then socks that matched the turtleneck, and black shoes with the laces out.

I remember a pair of hot pink knickers and a hot pink, teal, and white horizontal striped shirt. I wore it all the time and my cousin borrowed it a few times. I had dorky glasses and Farrah Fawcett hair until I started high school.

I admit, I'm a lurker, I love reading up on your life since our lives have taken all of us in totally different directions. I'm glad to see that motherhood is treating you well...it was great seeing you and the girls (and by girls I mean Lisa and Caryn, not your preggo boobs) at the circus on Sunday!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot..my wardrobe consisted of matching tops and bottoms...I usually sported alternating colored scrunched up slouch socks (2 socks on each foot minimum), Keds (but mine were Jamesway brand) and my god awful, huge, purple and pink glasses...

Delurking to say I'm still in that awkward stage but durning my earlier awkward age, my out-of-school uniform of choice was a pair of Sticky Fingers jeans, tube top, hoodie and leather jacket with some type of wooden platform open toed shoe. My hair was always "feathered" with home-made peroxide induced highlights.

Let's see... The one that springs to mind is the red and white Coca-Cola shirt (polo collar, plastic buttons, big logo across the front), acid washed Guess? jeans (bought at a garage sale, but the popular kids didn't know that!) pegged at the ankles of course, one pair of red socks and one pair of white socks layered and scrunched down so that they went red-white white-red, bright white Keds, and my precious Liz Clairborne purse. Ponytail, super bangs, pink plastic glasses... boy, was I hot!

I've been lurking so long I can no longer remember how I happened upon your blog. I'm proud to say my awkward phase consisted of skinny ankle-zip jeans, a double layer of Polo shirts (collars up, of course), multiple pairs of slouchy socks (usually one pair for every Swatch watch I was wearing), and super-white Keds, all topped off with permed hair with poufy bangs. How did we not suffer from heatstroke with all the layers?

Oh - bad memories of SO MANY bad outfits! Best was a white jean jumper/dress with huge orange, red and green floral crazy print. And i wondered why i didn't have a boyfriend. Might of had to do with the badly permed hair too!

Is it mean to recall my friend chris's ackward phase...I had a ton of outfit's that were ridiculous but Chris had hyper color shorts...you may be too young to remember hypercolor *how old are you again?* we were at a baseball game and his blue hypercolor shorts were pink on the butt do to the slightly warmer butt temperature...

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I wore only three outfits when I was eleven. My Wedneday outfit consisted of teal corduroys with little magenta flowers paired with a sweatshirt/t-shirt with three bears across the front, and each of the three bears had a little bow safety-pinned to its neck. I also was super tall and gangly with really think glasses. The Monday/Thursday and Wednesday/Friday outfits weren't any better. That was a bad year.

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I wore only three outfits when I was eleven. My Wedneday outfit consisted of teal corduroys with little magenta flowers paired with a sweatshirt/t-shirt with three bears across the front, and each of the three bears had a little bow safety-pinned to its neck. I also was super tall and gangly with really think glasses. The Monday/Thursday and Tuesday/Friday outfits weren't any better. That was a bad year.

i had such a long awkward period. i don't know where to begin! every thursday in sixth grade, i wore a giant peach "outback red" sweater with khaki pants. every thursday. dad says it belongs in a hall of fame.