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Post by greer on May 6, 2008 23:58:49 GMT -5
^that was my favorite bsc book for a long time. i think i just really liked the mall and ear-piercing stuff, and reading about what clothes the arnold twins wanted to wear. ;D
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Post by Rie on May 7, 2008 0:13:22 GMT -5
^That was my favorite Mal book for a long time. I loved the mall,the ear piercing stuff and I loved reading about the clothes the twins wanted to wear too. I also loved Mal's shopping there,buying earrings and everything. And Mal talking to her parents.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 7, 2008 6:28:13 GMT -5
As silly as push-down socks sound in 2008, they sound like a nice problem to have as far as what's "in" for young girls! By comparison with what's out there these days, that's so tame it's difficult to imagine even an 8 year old not being allowed to wear them.
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Post by lionessblack on May 7, 2008 11:44:35 GMT -5
On a recent reread, I noticed that Mallory and Carolyn seem to have the same taste in clothes. Which is sort of funny, but I guess fashion is fashion, no matter what your age is.
Anyone who forbade their children to wear push-down socks should look at the 12 year olds wearing pants with words across the rear nowadays. And how that's completely acceptable.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 7, 2008 12:04:54 GMT -5
I had a pair of capri pants like that when I lived in the dorms. I wore them once before I realized that it was to embarrassing to have people shouting things at you when you went to do your laundry.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 7, 2008 13:40:42 GMT -5
On a recent reread, I noticed that Mallory and Carolyn seem to have the same taste in clothes. Which is sort of funny, but I guess fashion is fashion, no matter what your age is. Anyone who forbade their children to wear push-down socks should look at the 12 year olds wearing pants with words across the rear nowadays. And how that's completely acceptable. If you'd told parents (like Mr. & Mrs. Pike or Mr. & Mrs. Arnold) of 20 years ago, that there would be such things as shorts with words across the seat in any size, they wouldn't have beleieved you. At that point, t-shirts rarely had anything on the back that wasn't a sports number. The fashion for the larger logo being on the reverse hadn't happened yet, let alone its moving down to that part of one's anatomy intended for sitting upon.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 7, 2008 14:50:28 GMT -5
^No kidding. I remember these awful fights with my grandmother over my shoes. I mean, I wanted to wear sneakers, which were now allowed under our uniform guidelines. And she wanted me to wear saddle shoes and change into sneakers at recess. Which was a pain the ass when no one else had to. She probably would have a heart attack and die if she knew what kids wore to school now. Also, we fought on the push down socks too. I wanted to wear my push down day glow socks and a scrunchie, she wanted me to wear normal white socks and a headband. What can you do?
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Post by candykane on May 7, 2008 15:27:38 GMT -5
OMG. The pants-with-words-on-the-butt thing just brought back a hilarious memory. My freshman year of college, I attended the college's homecoming football game with my new boyfriend and his mom, stepdad and two sisters. After the game everyone went back to his dorm suite to watch the U of M/Michigan state game on TV. My bf had this huge pile of his clothes that he wanted his mom to take back home with her. She was sorting through the pile, and suddenly, in front of me and the seven other guys who shared the dorm suite, she held up a pair of gray shorts and said, "Dave, why do you want me to take these home? I thought you liked these!" The shorts said KICK BUTT across the back in huge letters and had a picture of a foot on the back. There was dead silence for a moment, and then everyone burst out laughing. My now-ex bf was humiliated...he didn't hear the end of it for a looong time! Topic? This was one of my favorite Mal books, too, because of the ear-piercing. I love now how they thought ear-piercing was such a big deal and the epitome of cool.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 7, 2008 16:44:05 GMT -5
I thought it was interesting that she was allowed to get them at 11, because it was without question not allowed until I turned 12.
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Post by Penny Lane on May 7, 2008 17:08:59 GMT -5
I had my ears pierced when I was 7; they got infected and I waited until I was 12 or 13 to try again. Then I went through body piercing phase in my late teens. I now think the entire concept is kind of stupid.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 7, 2008 17:46:59 GMT -5
candykane, that story is hilarious!
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Post by lionessblack on May 7, 2008 19:55:37 GMT -5
I had mine pierced a couple times when I was a kid, and they kept closing up. Finally, my mom said that this was the last time, when I was around 12, and that's the holes I have in there now. Later on, when I was 15 or so, I got a second set of holes, thinking about Dawn in all honesty, but one of them closed up. So now I have three ear piercings.
I also have a nose ring, that I got when I was 18, which I love, and whenever I can get around to affording it, I want to get another piercing. But all my money goes elsewhere these days.
But having pierced ears as a kid, when I read BSC, I wondered what the big deal was. I mostly wore studs when I wore them (since, you know, they closed up, I didn't wear them long enough), but my second grade school picture has me wearing cute dangly earrings. It was strange to me that the parents of Stoneybrook wouldn't let their kids gets pierced ears. What was Richard afraid of anyway? Pierced ears today, teenage pregnancy tomorrow?
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Post by Rie on May 8, 2008 1:14:50 GMT -5
I thought it was interesting that she was allowed to get them at 11, because it was without question not allowed until I turned 12. I had my ears pierced when I was a baby(A lot of people do that here). And I still have them.
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Post by nothingtolose18 on May 8, 2008 8:24:23 GMT -5
I never got my ears pierced until I was 16 or 17. It wasn't that I wasn't allowed to get them done - it was just the fact that I didn't really care about it too much and that I don't like getting holes poked in me, lol. But as I started getting older, I started to want to have them more. My mom didn't even have them done, either. My aunt's wedding was coming up and so then we both decided that we wanted to be able to wear long, dangly earrings to her wedding ;D so we got them pierced And just yesterday I got my nose pierced ;D I don't think I'll be getting any more though, or at least any time soon. Maybe my ears again, but nothing major. Anyway, I really liked Mallory and the Trouble with Twins too. It was fun reading about the shopping spree, and Mallory and Jessi's plight for pierced ears. It amused me because I think I would have been allowed them at that age, if I had asked (many people where I live get their baby's ears pierced as well, Mary Anne Spier (I feel like Gabby calling you that )) so I didn't really know what the big fuss was about. It seemed like such a commonplace thing to me, even though I didn't have them done myself.
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Post by Sweet City Girl on May 8, 2008 9:55:39 GMT -5
^ Like you, nothingtolose, I didn't like the idea of getting holes pocked in me, either. ;D I didn't get my ears pierced until I was fifteen, when I finally started being interested in clothes/accessories, etc. In general, when I was much younger, I just didn't feel interested in wearing earrings or anything "cool" or popular. I was probably the opposite of Mallory and some of the other BSC members in many ways, not really caring about looking "sophisticated" or grown-up. I wanted to stay young and "simple" looking for as long as possible! Maybe I was trying to make my own personal statement that kids today grow up way too fast, and that I wasn't about to give up my childhood so quickly! I agree that Mal getting her ears pierced at age 11 shouldn't be such a big deal- I, too have seen several babies with earrings. However, when I was younger, I didn't see it nearly as often, so back then I probably wouldn't have questioned it.
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