#55: Jessi's Gold Medal
"And the way she dresses makes her look even more stunning.
At that meeting, for example, she was wearing these sharply creased, pastel-green, cuffed shorts; a wild Hawaiian shirt tied at her waist, with vibrant colors that perfectly picked up the green; and sandals with crisscrossing ankle straps to her knees. Her hair was swept to one side and held in place with a long, fake-flowered barrette that looked like a Hawaiian lei."
and, how to dress for success at the SMS Sports Festival:
"Sure enough, the kids who lined up were . . . well, definitely not jocks.
Take Claudia. She was wearing electric-pink track shorts with a turquoise racing stripe, a matching top with cut-off sleeves, brand-new high top track shoes with no socks, and floral-print suspenders! Her hair was pulled up on top of her head and held in place with a silver barrette in the shape of the Olympic symbol. If it had been an athletic-wear fashion show, she would have won."
"And the way she dresses makes her look even more stunning.
At that meeting, for example, she was wearing these sharply creased, pastel-green, cuffed shorts; a wild Hawaiian shirt tied at her waist, with vibrant colors that perfectly picked up the green; and sandals with crisscrossing ankle straps to her knees. Her hair was swept to one side and held in place with a long, fake-flowered barrette that looked like a Hawaiian lei."
and, how to dress for success at the SMS Sports Festival:
"Sure enough, the kids who lined up were . . . well, definitely not jocks.
Take Claudia. She was wearing electric-pink track shorts with a turquoise racing stripe, a matching top with cut-off sleeves, brand-new high top track shoes with no socks, and floral-print suspenders! Her hair was pulled up on top of her head and held in place with a silver barrette in the shape of the Olympic symbol. If it had been an athletic-wear fashion show, she would have won."
i love love LOVE your blog!
ReplyDeleteyou made me revisit my childhood memories, and i think BSC may have been the start of my obsession with fashion. Now, I work as a stylist for a fashion mag in singapore!
xx, Faz @ thedramadiaries.livejournal.com
I love the completeley unintentional hilarity of these outfits and the fact that you totally know some hipster now who would rock them. Great blog! I must have read every one of these books when I was younger.
ReplyDeletei am in love with you. we would be best friends in real life. i didn't even know i had blogger username until i left this comment.
ReplyDeleteThey make floral print suspenders?
ReplyDeletei think this is the book right here in which i decided to wear shirts tied around my waist. i think i even had a hawaian one. that is one of my many younger outfit choices that confounds me, but i think i figured it out now. also why i wore two different kinds of converse. i think once claudia wore an outfit with a "magic school bus teacher" theme? or am i crazy?
ReplyDeleteIt says the Hawaiian shirt was tied at her waist, not around it--as in, the bottom buttons were not done, and the unbuttoned tails were tied together. If she actually it tied around her waist, she'd be bare up top.
DeleteI totally remember that Magic School Bus outfit, too! I'm reading through the back posts looking for it. I think it was the book where she gets accused of cheating because she studied. This blog is genius.
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