Oh. Can you tell I’ve never been on ebay in my life?
I’d use the embarrassed smiley, but it squiks me out–doensn’t look embarassed at all…
litoris I love that mandarin-collar dress you made. (those?)
The sari is pretty too - it made me think of www.eshakti.com 's stuff (although they don’t have saris).
Jennyrosity, I love the pink dress.
DianaG, you have excellent taste in coats.
Khadaji, rigs, thanks for the compliments 
I do love that dress - splurged big-time for it, too, with the justification that it’ll last me long enough to be buried in.
NinetyWt, eleanorigby thanks for the compliments – it’s the same pattern for the two dresses, just one is shorter. Drove me batty making it, those collars are a bitch, but so worth it!
HazelNutCoffee that black dress is divine. I hate to admit it, but I don’t have a little black dress – I have about 6 little red dresses, does that even out? I just can’t seem to find the right dress in black for my body type.
Jennyrosity you have great boobs. I used to have great boobs. Enjoy them now, trust me on this. Show them off like you do every chance you get!
Bolding mine.
Just… just… Wow. How in the Sam Hill do you make something like that?
First you kill your warthog…
Ok, I searched and searched for stuff that shows what I wear now. I did not find it (I tend to avoid having pics of me taken), but I did find a few pics of what I used to wear in college and just graduated.
I went to college in the height of the preppy look. It was 1980 and girls wore an Izod (later a Polo) under a button down shirt (usually in a contrasting color), covered by a sweater (Fair Isle very good, but solid color ok–as long as it wasn’t the same color as the Izod). We wore this over jean or cords or khakis. The jeans–I have forgotten the name for them. They had baggy legs, tunneling down into a straight ankle–no “bell bottom” or flare or boot cut. Shoulder pads, oversized jackets in the bomber style, curls, curls, or “feathered” hair was popular. Also cowl necks (going out by 1982), vests–Annie Hall type or sweater vests, Miami Vice type clothes (white suits with pastel shirts) were big, IMS. Anyhoo, here are 2 pics:
thisisoneofthosepairsofjeans
I was never a super trendy dresser. I did like “mannish” touches–a trilby hat, a tie, Oxfords, blazers. I almost never wore dresses (never wore a dress once in all 4 years of HS). Didn’t own a casual dress until after college.
Back then, fashions was not as freeform as it is today–it started to be, with Cyndi Lauper looking like a bag lady and Madonna changing her look every week. Thrift store shopping was just starting to become trendy and changing its name to vintage etc.
eleanor, we called jeans like that “baggies.” I’m not sure if that was universal, but it was the trend around the DFW area of Texas back in the day.
P.S. You also had the exact look of what I wanted back then. I’m so retro-jealous!
And strangely enough, I am retro-actively pleased! How silly of me. I’m sure you looked great then (and now).
I forgot the turtleneck for the prep look! :eek: God-how could I? Anyway, not many girls were cold back then–not like now. Between the scoop necks and the baby doll sleeves–I would have died of frostbite if I were young now.
I threw away (more likely gave away) all my neckties and sweater vests. I loved that particular outfit–you can’t tell it from the pic, but the yellow button down had lavender and blue pin stripes–which of course matched the colors in the sweater and the tie.
They were called baggies! Thanks. And if your ass wasn’t just right, it looked like a billboard–something with how the fabric draped across the widest part of the backside. But if the fit was just right–nothing was more flattering.
Leggings and oversized bulky sweaters came in next–I loved those, too. We did NOT wear leggings with heels. Even now, I see that and I think: cheap tramp (no idea why, it’s just stayed with me. Apologies to those who do combine heels and leggings). We wore flats–and Keds little white tennies with leggings. And some girls wore the leggings, with “crumply” socks over them–the socks matched your top, not your leggings. And then of course, flats.
Ah, memories…
rigs, I think you looked awesome. And hot.
dalej, I’m getting the abercrombie homepage for your jeans link. But in general I approve of abercrombie, hollister, et al. I suppose they tend to be the hipper versions of Banana Republic and J Crew.
Oh lordy. I think I still have thissweater. And I used to wear it with a calf-length denim skirt and earth boots. 
(photo taken in 1977)
Yes! I never wore skirts, but I do remember that look. And you had the necklace that dangled over the cowl–usually with one small charm. A guy, if he were interested in you (and you him) would play with the charm.
God, am going down memory lane tonight!
Thanks, Haze. Back in the day, I cleaned up pretty good. 
Hopefully those glasses will be in style again. They’re just so unflattering.
I love the color of the sweater though.
Thanks for being so gentle, y’all.
That’s the photo I think of when I hear Yankovitch’s White-n-Nerdy.
:snerk:
I think we’re having one of those intergenerational disconnects here. Those WERE the mod glasses! Glasses were not a fashion accessory like they are today (my SIL has a pair of plain glass ones so she can look more educated. My SIL is something else).
when I was little, I needed glasses. I had a choice between pink cat’s eyes or this:
my kindergarten pic
My mother chose these–they came in 2 colors; this and black.
That was it. There were no real choices until the late 1970s and early 80s–nothing like now. It was Sir Elton John who ripped the lid off of eyewear and forced the industry to go fashionable. For awhile, we had little crystal butterflies and flowers in the lenses (well, some people did, 90wt obviously had better taste than that).
BWAHA ! My sister SO had those !!
The pair I’m wearing there were the latest thing - wire-frames for girls had just become popular (well, as popular as glasses could get). Soon after that photo was made, I got contact lenses. Hard ones! But I started high school in a pair of those big ol’ plastic glasses, with coke-bottle bottoms.
DianaG, I love your taste!