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But Paw, We Don't Need You to Drive Us. He Has His Own Wagon.
Kimberly: I like to think that this is the outfit that Laura Ingalls would have worn had Miss Beadle organized a Walnut Grove Prom. Of course Laura would have kept her jacket on, unlike the slutty preteen shown in the picture.
Mary: The Prom Theme - "Some Enchanted Dust Bowl"
Posted by Kimberly on April 27, 2005 | Permalink
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I am adding "slutty preteen" to my vocabulary.
Posted by: Will | Apr 27, 2005 5:23:47 PM
Oh my god, it's a Gunne Sax pattern! The poor gal's Laura Ashley!
What does it say about me that I had one of those dresses in the 80s? Not this pattern, but oh so prairie vixen!
Posted by: Marthachick | Apr 27, 2005 5:44:36 PM
yeeaahh this is my new favorite website, if only for the "some enchanted dust bowl" quote.
Posted by: john | Apr 28, 2005 12:47:40 AM
This blog is brilliant. Also brilliant is the refrence to the "designer couturier" who must have really been counting on the eventual popularity of next seasons Oregon Trail look. Glorious.
Posted by: jyesika | Apr 28, 2005 1:47:45 AM
This literally has me cracking up. I will past this site on to everyone I know!
Posted by: Heather | May 2, 2005 10:15:35 PM
I tried that dress on at a thrift store a couple weeks ago! It looked nice on the hanger but was pretty funky when I tried to wear it. Like it was made for a six foot tall twelve year old.
Posted by: Kristen | May 5, 2005 2:56:40 AM
It IS a Gunne Sax pattern! Memories...
I also had a dress much like this. It was by Organically Grown and it was reversible! I wore it to graduation and that night at the party, when my dad was stinko, I kept messing with his mind by going into the john and reversing the dress. He'd look and shake his head and try to figure out what the hell was going on.
Not unlike my reaction by looking at this dress now. I still have mine. I keep threatening to wear it out somewhere just to humiliate my kids.
Posted by: neko | May 20, 2005 8:39:29 PM
oh man. Gunne Sax was the thing back in the 1980s!
I had a faux Gunne Sax dress that I wore to my Elementary school graduation. then in 8th grade. I made a Gunne Sax skirt for our christmas dance. (I can still clearly picture it. Everyone was jealous! I swear!). And for graduation from 8th grade I wore another Gunne Sax dress.
Posted by: becky | May 26, 2005 2:29:40 PM
neko...
I'm cruious. your dad? or your date??? Freudian chemise? (half-slip)
Posted by: tjmaxx | Jun 21, 2005 11:59:55 AM
"Oh no! My jacket's too small for the back-of-the-wagon activities!"
Posted by: jfasoga | Jun 29, 2005 9:18:49 PM
no. i always kept my jacket on whilest wearing this exact same friggin dress to the first day of junior high school.
Posted by: waasabi | Jan 17, 2006 9:28:36 PM
