<p>Jmmom, LOL. That outfit I could countenance…just for the irreverence of it all.</p>
<p>There is no way in hell this is going on YouTube. Unless I can find one of my programming colleagues to Photoshop marmots in to replace me:).</p>
<p>Alu, we’ll make sure to smuggle a bottle of Ukranian vodka backstage to go with that outfit. You’ll be whisked directly from the fashion show to the annual Schmeckfest tractor pull. :D</p>
<p>I put in a request for no golf or tennis. The only other mom in this section - others are all Dads and girls - wants golf. </p>
<p>The music is, brace yourselves, Get Ready to Rumble.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Ant_And_Dec/The_Cult_Of_Ant_And_Dec_+_Pj_And_Duncan/Let_s_Get_Ready_To_Rumble/108799.html[/url]”>http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Ant_And_Dec/The_Cult_Of_Ant_And_Dec_+_Pj_And_Duncan/Let_s_Get_Ready_To_Rumble/108799.html</a></p>
<p>Looks like it’s Crystal, not Ukranian vodka that I will need backstage…</p>
<p>No, no, Hennessy!!</p>
<p>Maybe you could put in a special request to be outfitted by the local Harley dealer instead of Nike—much more interesting apparel choices, and fits the music better. I can’t wait for the details from this shin-dig!</p>
<p>You could go through my closet, Alum. I have quite a nice assortment of decades and sizes, particularly when it comes to corporate holiday party dresses. I think I still have a pair of Anne Klein glasses with frames the size of salad plates. I got them to match my spiffy gold and white snap-on earrings that weighed 1-1/2 lbs. each. They were uber-cool. :D</p>
<p>sluggbugg, LOL on the salad plates & large heavy earrings. Did you or did you not have a perm in that era? Inquiring minds want to know.</p>
<p>I still have shoulder pads in a couple of blouses and jackets. Now I hear THEYRE BAAAAACK.</p>
<p>Rescue from page 2. I’m sitting wallowing in self pity today…had ANOTHER stupid basal cell removed from my face yesterday (this one is over my eyebrow). Eyelid is puffy and a vivid purple…looks like someone sucker punched me. It hurts, and I’m grumpy. OK, got that off my chest. </p>
<p>re: Shoulder pads. Having “retired” from the corporate world a few years ago, I still have a healthy collection of jackets and blouses rotting in my closet that could keep an NFL team safe. I keep thinking they’ll come back in style…</p>
<p>Ooh, astromom. Sympathies to the nth power. </p>
<p>Shoulder pad comeback? Woo-hoo. I saved a couple pair of the removable velcro type. God knows what I thought I’d do with them. But you never know. Someone let me know when it’s time to unearth them and velcro them into an outfit or two. That, plus a perm and… where are my salad plate glasses? They must be around here somewhere.</p>
<p>I think I’m about ready for the SA fashion show. Let’s schedule it so as not to conflict with Alufamily’s runway debut.</p>
<p>The saved shoulder pads work great if you want to add some…oomph, shall we say? 
Just make sure the velcro is facing out… :0</p>
<p>Ouch!!! Bad mental pictures…</p>
<p>LOL – Why yes, SBmom, I DID have monster hair to go with my stylin’ Anne Klein salad plates and my big pearl necklace with something that resembled a traffic stop light dangling in the middle surrounded by a blinding circle of rhinestones. I still have the red get-up I wore with those gorgeous jewels and the see-through & gold heels. Somewhere in my closet, there’s a pair of control-top glitter panty hose from 1983. :D</p>
<p>You laugh but last year my son’s school held a fashion show, using school boys and girls from the sister school. Problem? The past-it 40 and 50 something women decided to showcase underwear. I was in the front row and looking up, I could see FAR too much detail when the girls paraded by! But the absolute worst was the last pajama ‘number’ which was supposed to feature older grads. Apparently the women fell in love with the physique of one of my son’s friends (a boarder) and ‘drafted’ him into this pajama number–which involved him stripping off his pajamas down to his boxers. He was in a panic about how to protect his modesty.</p>
<p>They put him front and center and when he whipped those pjs, there was a stunned, audible gasp from the audience of parents and students. And now, thanks ladies, I have an image of his blessed anatomy blazened on my mind–and so do all the boys. At every subsequent function–the younger boys would catcall him whenever he entered the room. “Take off your pajamas!”</p>
<p>Underwear? Pajama stripping? OMG! I can see my kids went to the wrong school. Our “events” are much, much less interesting than y’all seem to enjoy!</p>
<p>If it had been older men making a girl strip there would have been h*** to pay!</p>
<p>It does remind of our school’s production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” There is that one moment when Potiphar’s wife strips Joseph’s cloak off of him…done properly, the boxers will cover all, but there’s always a little moment of shock and… :D</p>
<p>If I wore pyjamas, boxers, huge hair, plate-sized glasses, ginormous false jewels, ginormous false boobies, and glitter control top panty hose all at once…</p>
<p>I could do the Senior Fashion Show as Dame Edna!!! That sight would make astrophysicsmom post-face blasting feel like Charlize Theron in comparison.</p>
<p>cheers, I think I’m living in the wrong country. That sounds like a school event I could embrace.</p>
<p>slugg, you paint a LOVELY picture-- only too familiar to me from having the same look. What were we thinking, on the glasses?! </p>
<p>Now I have several very (decades) old pairs of glasses-- the old horn rims still work, the old Elvis Costello black nerd glasses still work, the wire circular grannies still do too. But the salad plates? Boy! They did not, do not and will never work. </p>
<p>Did the perm chemicals go to our brains? Did the baby lust cause temporary hormonal insanity? Had we all watched just a little too much “Dallas?” </p>
<p>It had to be something.</p>
<p>PS My salad plates live-- in my earthquake kit. :D</p>
<p>You know what’s sad? Photos of us before nature and gravity hit us, when we had all our hair and no wrinkles, are all marred by the presence of those huge glasses. </p>
<p>What were we thinking?</p>
<p>What are salad plates?</p>
<p>The perm thing- Whhhyyyyy?? I had long straight blonde hair, and what did I do? Perm it into a frizzy curly-cued rat’s nest is what I did. Looking back now, I wonder why? Why? </p>
<p>And, what was with the big pleated, high waisted pants of the 80’s?</p>
<p>They were supposed to make our legs look longer. Unfortunately they didn’t make our legs look longer, just our butts!</p>