Dear Mama Kat,
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the most egregious fashion moments of our lives. This blog will not only expound on several important topics, it will provide concrete visual evidence that several trends of the 90′s should never ever appear again in the United States of America, with perhaps the lone exception of the Jersey Shore.
Without further adieu, I bring you THE PERM:
This is Meg and her sister Ain’t Misbeehaven in Nantucket, circa sometime in the early 90′s. Note they are both sporting tightly wound perms, heavily sprayed into place with Aqua Net. Sorry Bee, if I outed myself, I had to out you, too.
Meg is seriously concerned about the fluorocarbons she has used; contributing to a hole in the ozone layer. She can hear the polar ice caps cracking, and icebergs collapsing. Good God, what could she have been thinking?
In another vacation mishap, Meg, and again her sister, Mom and cousin all decided to sport matching sweatshirts:
That in itself isn’t so bad, but please note Meg is sporting some aqua stirrup pants. Apparently her sister is looking on in disapproval, and Meg can see why. She also notes her attire includes a heinous baseball cap and some sort of dangling earrings, and all she knows is the outfit is a cry for help. What kind of help, she isn’t sure.
Meg is happy a new century has dawned, and she can finally be halfway comfortable that a photo of herself won’t be used as a Glamour Don’t:
And girls, don’t let perms and stirrup pants HAPPEN to YOU.
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Perms? Guilty as charged.
Stirrups? When I was 8 years old, but thankfully not since!
I’m with you – I’m glad a new century has dawned!
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This is hilarious! I wanted to do this prompt but didn’t think I could access the pictures in time. They are buried in a box somewhere before photos got digital…
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Meg looks younger now than she did in the 90s! Maybe all those perm chemicals actually have some anti-aging powers!
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In the 1990′s I was rockin the perm and stirrup pants.
My mind was going “NTK?…NTK?…Not Too Klassy?”
Ohhhhhh Nantucket!
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Seems like somebody (that would be you) is aging like fine wine…better with age! Never had a perm. I can’t remember if I ever wore stirrup pants or not. If I did, I simply ‘blocked it out!’
Dear lovely dudette:
I don’t believe you were wearing those stirrup pants in the 90′s.
I am insisting that was more like somewhere between 1984 and 1987. Let’s send the photo to the criminal evidence lab to prove this.
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So funny! I can so relate to the perms. I had perms in my hair for 30 years off and on. Stirrup pants somewhat. I’m with you… good to move on to a new century.
Those periwinkle stirrups are so wrong they’re right.
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I can assure all you ladies that Meg is in fact correct in her years – I was long married and probably either had or was close to having my first child – that was 1994 – so we are definately in the early 90′s here! I had some ugly sweats on but boy I did love those stirup pants!
Note to Meg – I NEVER EVER EVER used Aqua Net – in keeping with the expensive tradition of perms and coloring – I bought expensive hair spray!
Aqua net reminded me of old ladies at Kmart!
Sadly, Mrs. Tuna may have worn stirrup pants in the current century. I’m so ashamed.
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I rocked a perm from about 1984 to 1995! I too shudder to think about all the holes I single-handedly put in the ozone layer with all those cans of Rave hairspray I went through in those eleven years! I also wore my fair share of the stirrup pants. Thank God we’ve evolved.
Don’t forget “frosted” hair — I rocked that from the 70′s through the mid-90s. Yikes.
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Oh, wow…I had a long, tight perm in the 90s. Completely forgot about stirrup pants! I did my Mama Kat’s on baggy M. C. Hammer pants, thought! Another late 80s/early 90s don’t! Enjoyed your post!
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