Worn Out:
Awesomely Bad Outfits

Zoe Bat Mitzvah.jpg

THE LOWDOWN: In the text box below, please (please!!) tell me about one--or more--items of clothing you once wore that totally should have stayed in the closet. If you owned parachute pants? Keep it real! We will love you for it. If you don't want to read on, that's all you gotta know, you lovely people! Scroll down and enter away.

And if you want to show us your outfit? Take a look at Worn Out: Awesomely Bad Outfits and upload your own. Or, you can email a picture to awesomelybadoutfits@gmail.com, and I'll upload it for you! Rock on.

FOR THE MORE CREATIVE TYPES: You can also answer this short questionnaire if it tickles you! Mark your answers by number, lovelies. Can't wait to hear your responses!

  1. I would use these words to describe me in high school:
  2. When I wore my awesomely bad outfit, I felt_____________.
  3. One thing most people don't know about me is:
  4. If my life were a reality show, it would be called:

We've all been there. At some point in our lives, we have left the house wearing some combination of garments--perhaps an unfortunate color or fit, perhaps just...not as cool as we totally thought it was at the time. The Regrettable Outfit is a rite of passage, like fumbling through your first time at "second base." Except more public.

And now? Much more public.

We could blame the era, "It was the 80s!," or our ages, "I was thirteen," but the beauty of the Regrettable Outfit? We don't want to make excuses. For both men and women, thinking back on that unfortunate fashion statement stirs a sense of pride alongside the blushing. "Look how bad it was!" we cry gleefully. We feel a surge of nostalgia for our not quite developed self, and we wish we could travel back in time (even if it was just last week!) to pat ourselves on the back and maybe utter an enthusiastic, "That's so awesome."

Awesomely bad, of course.

Which just makes it that much more awesome. And you know I'm right here.

(Can I get a holla?!)

I'll start by offering my Bat Mitzvah dress, 1989, pictured above. Turquoise taffeta, and paired with a white satin bolero jacket. Just like the bull-fighters wear!

  1. In high school, I was uncomfortable, studious, naive.
  2. When I wore my awesomely bad outfit, I felt like the most fashion-forward Bat Mitzvah  chick ever.
  3. Most people don't know that it's one of my greatest dreams to be on The Price is Right and kiss Bob Barker.
  4. If my life were a reality show, it would be called "America's Next Top Girly Novelist Survivor."

Zoe

of New York, NY

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