Old Clothes and Me

I definitely wouldn't call myself a hoarder - a lot of my old things are gone, lost in the several moves I've made or photographed and then given away. But I do keep a couple of containers of old clothes/costume pieces around, and this is one of them.

That's my old sweater from when I was in elementary school. There's a chance I wore it in middle school too ... I didn't really get a good grip on fashion until college, if I'm being honest with myself. Life was a lot of mismatched clothes for me, my mom kind of let me go with whatever I thought was best - so generally I picked three colors that I wanted to wear that day and then wore them, even if those weren't the only colors on the pieces of clothes themselves. This led to some of that bullying/not being very popular in those days that I wrote about before.

Below that you can see a bit of orange. Those are the pants I wore for an Oscar costume - I was Mr. Ping, from Kung-Fu panda.

There's a bit of dark blue - that's from a Halloween costume my mom made me in middle school, based on the Egyptian Barbie that I had. It was quite the outfit, and I wore it again in high school, as I think I stated in my Halloween blog post.

There's also an Episode One hat - that is, Episode One of Star Wars. I don't remember the purchasing of that hat. If given the option now, I wouldn't. I was 16 when The Phantom Menace came out and although I saw it nine times in the theater, like any devoted fan, I was secretly disappointed. It looked pretty cool, but it was nothing like the originals. It lacked soul. I used to own a The Empire Strikes Back hat, but it was lost some time ago. I would wear that over this hat, although I haven't really had/found a baseball hat that I would like to wear in some time now. Just as well, it's better to opt for fuller coverage.

Besides that, there are bits and pieces from college improv teams, mismatched halves of pajamas, and a shirt covered with poetry that I had to create in my high school English class. The container is a nice, dust free trip down memory lane.