Family photos are turning digital! It's a perfect way to protect images of your ancestors forever.

[jackshoegazer]

I will turn twenty-nine this summer. For those of you who are quick with the arithmetic, you might notice that I was born waaaay back in ultra-hip 1977. And for those of you who don't remember, the 70's bled right over into the 80's.

Trust me, I'm building toward something.

When I was about about four or five, my sister Angela was in the three to four range, and my half-sister Candice was chillin' out around a year or so. My father had recently gotten married, his second wife, Vicki.  This happy household was living in southern Indiana, in Columbus to be exact. I was soon to start kindergarten at Fodrea Elementary.

In a moment, I am going to show you our family photo from this miraculous time period but first I want to know; are our children going to look back on the haircuts and fashions of the 2000's and shudder, crying out, "Why, oh why, dear mother, dear father, did you dress me like that?!"

Because what we wear now doesn't seem terribly wrong or embarrassing in retrospect. But when I look back at this, I wonder what they were thinking back in winter of good ol' 1981.

Comments

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

Well you know we were all under alot of pressure in the 80's.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The most pressure I remember is trying to memorize the walk to school so I didn't get lost in my pseudo-ghetto neighborhood.

[foucaultonacid.livejournal.com]

this is what shits me about the 80s revival - I was there, I lived through it - for every funky piece of glitter shimmy there were 17 shades of baby shit brown; for ever great indie band like husker du or the cure, there were a million rip offs of the jacksons... and then there were the collars to your sholders. The green wool vests. The lame ass pink sweater draped around the sholders and sleeves tied in an oh so training to be a serial killer when I can dress myself kinda way.

EXACTLY!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank God, someone else sees it!

[choogy.livejournal.com]

this picture is hilarious. we had orange and brown shag carpeting; i feel you.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

We had the shag too.

But seriously, what did they do to my hair?!

[anima.livejournal.com]

I love your shirt in that picture!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

HAha, thanks. I don't think I'd wear it now ;)

[holographia.livejournal.com]

i was born in '78 so my family photos aren't too far off. my mom was big into soap operas and so there are shoulder pads everywhere! oh man.

i often wonder how we're going to look back at what we're wearing now, say in twenty years. sometimes i think fashion has evolved as far as it can- evidenced by the current recycling of any and every era over and over again. really though i think it's just a current lack of mainstream creativity.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Oh god, i forogt about shoulder pads! See, that's what I think tooo... there's really nothing new coming around. We've sort of exhausted the possibilities inherent in the materials and our lifestyles, so now it's a sort of reamalgamation every few years, where certain traits come to the surface, but over all it's the same.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

If you cut out everyone else, it totally looks like you ought to have been competing in a little kids' rodeo or country music competition. As a girl.

*smiles as sweetly as possible*

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that was the look I was going for! :P

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

And yet you turned into such a handsome, strapping man!

*purr*

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[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

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[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

HAha, weird.

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[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

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[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

What a combo!

[happymama04.livejournal.com]

Wooooow, gotta love the 80's man...I so feel your pain.
I think I'm gonna have to post some of my own here soon.
I've got some delectable little delights as well.
Heh heh...thanks for sharing.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

There are some things I'm glad survived the 70's but, man oh man, the HAIR is one that probably could have stayed dead :P

[happymama04.livejournal.com]

I always had the ever lovely "Mushroom" cut, or otherwise referred to as the "Dorothy Hammel" (sp?) cut.

Hair....don't get me started on the hair.

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

wow...

the funniest thing about my childhood pictures like the one you posted, is my mothers hair, she had the most amazing mullet ever!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

God, she *is* the antichrist!

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

you have NO idea

[verbal-exist.livejournal.com]

Why the smoked glasses always?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Man, I have *no* idea!

[rejectcarp.livejournal.com]

all of those photographs look so similar. everyone's mom had those glasses.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Apparently, that was high couture for the time. Hiding your smokey bedroom eyes behind your giant, oversized smokey glasses. Cuz everything looks cooler with a faint stain of brown over it :P

[verbal-exist.livejournal.com]

Hilarious.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks XD

[gamine3.livejournal.com]

The even scarier thing is that we would get 'dressed up' for family pictures like these...so, you know, that means the everyday clothes just went downhill from there.

Ahhh. The good ole days.

And yes, our children, who look simply spectacular now, will look back and cringe. They will have to have *something* to talk about in counseling!! ;)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Actually, my pictures of my everyday clothes don't scare me as much. Jeans with flared bottoms and t-shirts :P

Perhaps that's why fashion today is more timeless, designers and pop culture finally got sick of cringing every time they looked back 10 years :)

[curtain-curtain.livejournal.com]

What a sweet, sweet photo!!!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks :) I like the fake bookcase wallpaper in the background :P

[labelle77.livejournal.com]

heeheeheeheee. i have sooo many pictures like that. sweet jesus WHY??

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It was everyone coming down from the 60's acid :P

[enodia.livejournal.com]

I remember having a dress just like that yellow one, only with red and blue, and a Dorothy Hamill bowl cut. I cried an ocean at the hair dresser after that one. I'm sure their intentions were good. That's all I can say really.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Eeeek! Damn Dorothy Hamill!

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

I was born in 1976, so I too have my fair share of hideous clothing made immortal by photography.
I've always wondered why all dads looked like serial killers in the late 70s-early 80s.
:P

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Beards and dark glasses. Tooo scary! Eeew to the unkempt beard!

[curtain-curtain.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I'm an '81 baby. That picture is amazing.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Which means you missed the 70's bleedover by the time you were able to remember anything :) Lucky! (though 80's shiet wasn't that great either :P