Party Like It’s…1983?
Oh My God! Like….TOTALLY! This is gonna be soooo bitchin’!
My dear friend Jen over at Blissfully Caffeinated and I have come up with such a totally rad idea y’all! Prom-a-palooza is on the horizon! Break out the chiffon, dust off your ruffled tux shirt, sing Journey at the top of your lungs. (or, if you aren’t as old as me, just post your pics of you looking all hawt and stuff and pretend you don’t mind hanging with a dinosaur like me…) Next Friday, we hope you will join us in remembering the cheesiest of your high school memories.
The magic, the lights, the malt liquor (oops wait, maybe that was just me…) the groping in the back seat (Good Lord, I need to stop talking), the drama of it all, PROM NIGHT!
Just to get you in the mood, here are a few pictures of me from 1984, the year after I debuted the most perfect Pepto Bismol pink dress in the history of EVER.
Trust me, you will be treated to far larger hair in the prom pics so I hope you will join Jen from Blissfully Caffienated and I on this little journey.
Here’s the deal, next Friday, let us know you have posted. If you feel so inclined link back to us. We will in turn link back to you to create a fashion frenzy the likes of which have not been seen since, well, in my case 1983 or so.
So what do you say, you in? Come on, you know you want to….
Another thing you should know…Jen was actually potty training while I was at prom. Just goes to show you, silliness transcends generations.
…and so does taffeta.
PS: One of my VERY funny friends is part of a new site that just launched…The Mouthy Housewives. (Don’t even try to ask me who, I’m not going to tell you because having a secret makes me way cooler.) Try not to think of it as another blog, think of it as Dear Abby meets the Mother Of All Snark. Give it a try, ask The Mouthy Housewives a question…just don’t blame me if the answer they give you gets you into a molotav cocktail war with your neighbor…or arrested. Whatever. Just go check it out, ask a question…and don’t blame me for the answer you get back.
I’m so totally first. As I should be. Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a lavender and mint strapless jumpsuit? LOVES IT!
I am going to allow everyone to believe that I actually was being potty trained in 1983. I so was. Because I am very, very young.
Woot! Can’t wait to see the pepto dress!
And I’m so totally second. As it should be.
But girlfriend, you’ve claimed you were a fat youngster, a plump adolescent. I say you’re a major glam-queen, you sandbagger!
Those pictures speak a thousand words: you’ve got the beat!
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Nothing says pleather like my shiny hot Geo Prizm. If you go to Prom you got to arrive in style.
Put the needle on the record.
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Is that a beer you’re drinking in that PROM PHOTO? I can’t think of many cola’s that are that YELLOW.
I’m gonna see what The Maven can dig up in the photo department. I’m hoping I can get in on this one.
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Is it me or is anyone else inordinately curious about these mouthy housewives are? Is the housewife part a hint? So we can rule out all of the blogger we know who work (I mean OUTSIDE of the home – don’t hurt me “housewives”)?
I got tagged for something about prom pictures and I love the idea. Sadly, my “prom” pictures are kind of boring since DC teenagers were rocking the LBD in the late 80s. But my earlier high school dance dresses may have some highlights. We’ll see.
I think you looked fab. Belinda had perfect 80s hair – a very hard style to reproduce though.
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Drinking at the Holiday Inn…you just may be my soul sistah! I’m so going to the Prom-a-palooza!
ps – your hair was sassy! love it!
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Picture the mid-seventies, oh yeah! This should be fun.
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LOL, you’re soooo cute
i’m going to link you up to my Flashback Friday.
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The pictures! The prom! The poor judgement calls!
This will be a lot of fun! I geared the Spin Cycle around your idea, I love it that much!
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youreally look like supermodels! i actually really love the black shorts and black and white top you have on. you don’t happen to still have that lying around do you?
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The prom idea is awesome and “The Mouth Housewives” sounds even awesomer.
I love your sassy thumbs up as you poor your delicious, and I’m going to guess cheap, malt beverage! As Belinda might sing, I’m mad about you!
If I get to my Mom’s and can forage around in her photo hiding places, I’ll succumb to the tragedy that is showing off my hideous prom dresses (which, like, OMG, my mom might still actually have in her house! gag me with a spoon!)
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This is such a fun idea! I hope I can get my pictures from my mom in time!
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You look great in your prom dress (drinking lemonade, I’m sure)…………and look at those tans back then!!!!
I couldn’t even begin to guess where to look for my prom pictures………..
I only went to one prom my senior year, and to this day can’t believe that I wore a white tux! Yikes! This should be interesting.
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That strapless bustier jumpsuit thing is smoking hot! I love these.
I totally want to play! I fear, though, that all the pictures of my magical nights are in my parents’ garage in Florida. I will see what I can find.
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Oh my. This is going to get tacky fast. I’m in.
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Oh my–this should be a hoot! I have quite the selection of these photos that I will have to have scanned–
I wil be bringing the big hair and the hoop skirts. I shit you not
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*sigh* I want 17 year old legs again.
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Is it bad that I had no recollection of my prom? I don’t think it was due to alcohol though, I think it was the date. :p
I wanna see the pepto bismol dress!!
I SO love this idea…
And that pic of you posing on the couch is smokin’ hawt. I believe I have a similar one…but if I can’t find it I am not above recreating it.
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I loves me some prom pictures, I can’t WAIT for this! I am hoping to get my prom pictures from my mom this week so I can participate too–WOOT!
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Lady, I love you and all, but it’s Belinda, not Melinda. And I was six in 1983, so I should know.
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This is gonna be good! I need to go find my pictures.
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Ben was an asshole who clearly didn’t understand just what he was missing out on! Oh, that dress….remarkable fer shur! But for 1983 you rocked it! Adorable! My prom-a-palooza post is up!
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