Where have all the stirrup pants gone?

I was home in Amarillo last weekend for my little sister's high school graduation (gasp!). While I was there, my aunt bestowed upon me lots of old photos she had found as she was going through my grandmother's house. There were the requisite cute, aww--invoking images of my childhood. Hello, pigtails and wispy hair that always escaped my barrette.

And then there were the cringe-inducing, what-were-we-thinking photos. Exhibit A: stirrup pants.


Exhibit B: way too big shirts and glasses the size of Montana.


I remember thinking I was SO CUTE in these outfits. sigh I really don't think I figured out that I was not actually a size extra-large until after a year at college.

Rifling through the photos led to reminiscing what other fashion mysteries I've lived through...

• units
• Coca-Cola shirts
• pegged pants
• jelly shoes
• slap bracelets
• banana clips
• shoulder pads
  
• Keds without the shoelaces
• a pair of pants my mom wore that featured neon paint splatters and fish skeletons
• the denim shirt craze
  

Although I like to think that there has been some improvement over the years, I can't complain too much. Our fashion sense might have been crazy, but without it, we'd have a world devoid of 80s parties. And nobody wants that, right?!