We Is All Old...

Okay...you've seen Remo's...  You've seen Robbie's...  Now, here's mine:

Yes, it's my high school graduation picture.  I can't remember now whether they were actually taken late in junior year or early in senior year.  Let's say it was taken somewhere around 1973.  I was seventeen (I didn't turn 18 until after graduation...I'm a July baby!)

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about THIS picture is that it has been riding around in my husband's wallet since before we were married.  That would be about 28 years...  Boy, it don't look too bad, considering all the butt sweat it's come in contact with over the years!  In fact, the little sucker has worn like iron! 

I haven't really LOOKED at this picture in a long time.  When I picked it out of hubs' wallet to scan it, I was shocked by how much it looks like my eighth-grade graduation picture.  In fact, I didn't grow an inch or gain a pound the whole time I was in high school.  I wore the same gym suit as a senior that I had bought when I was thirteen.  I weighed 98 pounds on graduation day 1973.  (THOSE were the days!)  Do you know, I was carded for liquor until I was thirty?

Well, that picture is fun...yeah, I look like a little hippie, trying to look the part of the happy graduate (for the benefit of my parents, mostly...)  But I think I have one that is even more bizarre.  How about a wedding picture, vintage 1976?

Isn't this a hoot?  You spend months planning the wedding and making sure everything is just perfect...  Never realizing that thirty years down the road you'll look at the pictures and just howl!  I used to show this to the college kids that worked for me (and this was ten years ago, now) and they'd say---"Wow, look at all the hippiesin your wedding!"  It's SO funny. 

When other couples of the day were exchanging their vows in gardens, wearing nothing but flowers and smiles, we were strapping ourselves into the traditional wedding garb and trying to carry off this Polish/German wedding.  I'm sorry the picture didn't scan well...I took it out of my wedding album, and they're all those fancy textured pictures.  But I wish you could really SEE the tuxes!   Wide velvet lapels, ruffled shirts, "flared" pants, HUGE velvet bow ties...OMG are they funny!  And the girls' dresses...  What a time we had picking them out!  It was an October wedding, so I was trying for an autumn color scheme.  I was actually going for what I THOUGHT was a "cinnamon brown" (which probably would have been just as ugly thirty years later...)  Little did I know I was clothing my bridesmaids in "seventies orange!"  Why did I have them carry bouquets? What we really needed was ceramic owls and macrame plant hangers to complete the ensemble!