What did you wear when younger that mortifies you now?

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A Dark Time for Style

I've not thought about much of what I wore as a child - except for my first pair of glasses which were cat-eye shaped and legging-style pants with stirrups.  Yep, keeping that long line tight was important back in the day.  If you could see little me in those glasses with a bright pair of purple stirruped leggings and a purple stripe top, we would have a very good giggle. Since I was not yet 7 when this get -up was stylish, I don't really feel mortified, just oddly nostalgic.

Mortified by a style choice? Try my early teen years...  Gosh, I wish I could easily find the one picture which would epitomize some of my early choices - the biggest being granny glasses and longish hair up in curlers! The photo I'm thinking of was taken in my Grandparents' backyard in Baxter Springs; it's in color, so I don't even have the benefit of black and white to mitigate the shock of me with a bandana barely covering large curlers and little gold-rimmed granny glasses.  I think it's surprising to me to see myself as such a gawky pre-teen.  Taking pictures back-in-the-day was a big deal, so I'm not even sure WHY anyone in my family would have thought this was a wonderfully posed photo!

Granny glasses were incredibly cool in the '70s thanks to John Lennon and Yoko Ono. They are experiencing a resurgence, but there was just something about how we wore our hair and the size of those glasses which is a bit embarrassing now. By the time I stopped wearing them late in the decade, the style had morphed into more of an octagonal... It's funny, but whenever your Dad and I talk about '70s styles, we both agree it was a very dark time.