Are You There, God? It's me, Elese.
Today I did two things I have not done since Junior High: Found it necessary to leave the premises to change my clothes, and bought courderoy trousers.
I've lost the teeniest bit of weight, so I decided to wear the tan trousers I've been holding back on. Why not? Cute pants. Feeling sassy. Oh my word. I'll tell you why not. Because Biology loves a good laugh. Thank jebus I had my grandfather's fleece vest with me, so I could hang that over my shortness and hide the shame.
Alas, I have not done laundry and did not have time to wash and dry my other office-ready trousers, so I ran to Kohl's where I ended up buying a pair of Army green cords. People. Soft. So soft. Why haven't I had any cords before now? What happened that I have been missing this soft, warm comfort all this time?
I'll tell you what: Courderoy knickers.
When I was in 7th Grade, I thought it would be a good idea to have courderoy knickers with a matching vest, and my mother happily obliged with a camel colored set. I wore these with a white turtleneck, white tights, dark brown belt, and dark brown ballet flats. And a beret. And I went to school dressed like this, as though I were the casual version of Little Lord Fauntleroy. In 7th Grade. Children are evil.
But today I have embraced the cord and am happily seated, secure in the knowledge that even if anything else makes it through to the pants, these are dark enough and thick enough that I won't have the same problem I had with the tan dress trousers.
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If it makes you feel any better, I had tweed knickers. And one of the first fashion spreads I remember from any magazine was from "Seventeen" featuring a New Year's Party and all of the girls were wearing knickers. And skinny headbands. The kind that went across the forehead ala Olivia Newton-John. And yes, I wore a gold sparkly headband when I wore those tweed knickers.
Feel better?
Posted by: Kim Yamaguchi | January 22, 2009 02:10 PM
knickers, i had, yes.
only my knicher/vest set was ordered from the sears catalog- need i say more. i wore brown clogs with plastic heeel that had a knotched cut out of it. oi, bad times!
Posted by: michael | January 23, 2009 03:12 AM