yo mama’s so trendy
I have a feeling that you know this about me already, but I would like to take this opportunity to admit to you that I am a total poser.
Oh, I pretend I’m cool. I attempt the trends. I fake the funk. But it’s not really there.
You see, I’m living my life in one big gray area. I want to look my age (mid-twenties, holla!) but I also want to look like a responsible mother. And from the extensive research and home studies I have performed, it seems that responsible mothers mostly look like they don’t get enough sleep. Well, I don’t get enough sleep, so I can dig that. But I do want to go to the grocery store wearing something other than yesterday’s snot-stained workout capris. Is that so wrong?
I remember a few months after Babs was born, I hesitantly ventured out to the mall to try to soak up some civilization. My eyes were hungry for people who didn’t grind my nipples to shreds and shoot poop up the back of their shirts. There was nothing there I wanted to buy, so I just wandered through the crowds trying to figure out how the rest of these people managed to look so awake. As I groggily trudged along, my feet came to a stop in front of the grand and terrifying Abercrombie and Fitch. Posed in the display windows were sleek, headless mannequins luring in the customers with their provocatively arched backs and jutted hips. Behind them rose giant black and white posters that pictured ruggedly handsome (and mostly naked) young men climbing on a yacht. My attention was immediately drawn to the tiny scraps of clothing that the yacht boys and plastic women were wearing. Everything- the shirts, blouses, miniskirts, all of it- was scrunched up and wrinkled like the laundry that had been sitting back home in my dryer for over a week. I felt a small bud of hope rise up in my chest. This, this, I could do. I could do wrinkly. The two worlds that I lived between, the world of cute and sexy twentysomethings and the world of tired but happy young mothers, had merged in one beautiful new style trend.
So here I am, four years later, standing barefoot at the kitchen counter with my A-line denim skirt and shamelessly wrinkled up blouse that I dug out from the bottom of my clean laundry pile this morning. I have no idea if wrinkled is even “in” anymore, but I don’t care. I’m sticking with this style for a long time, I can tell you that much, and I am going to choose to believe that I am seriously current and hottt. Word.
I am right there with ya babe. Sad..but true.
Comment by Queen Beth — June 30, 2006 @ June 30, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Hey, what’s with the Loser hand sign on your forehead? You are not a loser, but a wonderful, beautiful woman. I should know, because I made you! MOM
Comment by Mom — June 30, 2006 @ June 30, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Just so you know- I was at the mall yesterday and saw SEVERAL wrinkled tops displayed. You are cooler than you think!
Comment by Alaina — June 30, 2006 @ June 30, 2006 at 5:36 pm
you are hott girl! love the hair
Comment by Tess — June 30, 2006 @ June 30, 2006 at 7:16 pm
You just coined your superhero name: Wrinkly!
;)
Sweaty
Comment by Trixie — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 12:28 am
That was just thoroughly enjoyable to read. I have felt so much of what you wrote. Only, A&F and me, we don’t go together, wrinkly or not. I’m more of a, let’s see—Walmart display hanger hanging above the $4.98 t-shirts. Your picture reminded me of a Derek Zoolander pose—it’s marketable!
Comment by Angela — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 7:44 am
Last time I walked by an Abercrombie, much in the same funk you were in, they actually had LIVE models. The half naked guys were there in the FLESH. I didn’t know whether to pity them or long for them as I shuffled by in my swanky skort (not skirt, skort) from Kohls.
Here from the new site you designed for ABC Momma, where I was experiencing blog envy. Both of these designs are beautiful. Excellent work - I’m thinking your fashion sense is probably just as good lookin.
Comment by Beth (totalmomhaircut) — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 8:06 am
Hey, at least you can still FIT into the clothes. I don’t even remember the size I was in before Rae. Maybe one day I will be scantily clad, only because nothing fits me anymore!
Comment by Jenn — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 11:07 am
My husband has tried to convince me that wrinkly is not really the style—the people who work at the stores are just too lazy to iron the clothes before putting them out. I will be showing him your post. He can’t make me iron.
Comment by Alicia — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 2:34 pm
You are so so in. After all, you’re mindful and living in the moment, kind of (are you ready?) a “Wrinkle in Time” …
Apologies to Madeleine L’Engle.
Comment by the Mater — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Okay…how sad is this. I’m a musician. I dig music. Loud music. I turn my amps up to 11. Yet, I can’t bring myself to go into the local A&F stores because their music is too freaking loud. I’m old. It bites.
Comment by Chris — July 1, 2006 @ July 1, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Oh, PLEASE tell me that wrinkled is still in, because I can do that, too. And from your description I think you’re balancing fashion with motherhood just fine.
Comment by Caryn — July 2, 2006 @ July 2, 2006 at 10:37 am
This made me laugh! Great blog! Also, I think that is a cute pictures. Your hair is totally cute and your freckles make you look like an actual A&F model! So, give yourself some credit!
Comment by Amanda — July 3, 2006 @ July 3, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I have joyfully adopted the ‘wrinkled’ look forever! My iron and I hate eachother. Don’t even get me started on the ironing board!! I’m doing good to get the clothes folded (and maybe put away…) without having to lug that gigantic eyesore out…cheers to the wrinkles (the scary thing is that they are creeping from my clothes to my face!!) And I LOVE your haircut!! VERY trendy and oh so cool!!
Comment by Bethany — July 10, 2006 @ July 10, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I know this one’s an old post, but I’m commenting anyway!
As a fellow twenty-something mama, I vote that wrinkled will ALWAYS be hot.
Comment by Melissa — July 15, 2006 @ July 15, 2006 at 6:47 am