Post by charlottejohanssen on Apr 25, 2007 8:25:16 GMT -5
I wanted to continue this: piperrhiannon.livejournal.com/72088.html made by phiperrhiannon, so I copied it and filled in some.
Feel free to add some!
BSC prequel, The summer before
Claudia was wearing willowy black pants, cinched at the waist with a drawstring, and a boldly patterned summer shirt with ties that she was adjusting around her midriff. Her midriff would have been bare, but Claud had slithered into a lacy black tank top before she'd put on the shirt. On her feet were delicate silvery sandals, and her hair, which was looooooong and thick, was held away from her face with two silver combs.
FF1
cutoff jeans over bicycle shorts , and suspenders she'd coated with buttons. Beneath that, she was wearing a paint-splattered t-shirt, which she called her tribute to Jackson Pollock.
FF2
bright yellow tights with black stripes under a short tie-dye jumper and long-sleeved neon-pink t-shirt, ankle-high vinyl boots.
FF3
Today she was wearing white painters coveralls decorated with a wild daisy pattern she's created herself.
FF5
I was wearing a holiday version of my usual "uniform": instead of jeans I wore dark green corduroys, and I'd topped them with a bright red turtleneck. Stacey was wearing a red woolen miniskirt topped with a little red woolen jacket (she looked like a very hip Mrs. Claus). Claudia had on red-and-white-striped stockings (the candy cane look) and a white dress with red polka dots. Miniature green Christmas tree earrings dangled from her ears. Mary Anne looked beautiful in a navy blue velvet dress. And Dawn was doing Christmas California-style, in a white denim miniskirt and green silk blouse.
Stacey's portrait
Today, at this moment, I'm wearing black tights, a pink-and-black striped oversized sweat shirt, and pink hightop sneakers.
That day, she had on a purple jacket, black tights and red cowboy boots. Her black hair was half piled on her head and half down her back, so the brightly colored three-hoop earrings she'd made for herself showed off nicely.
Abby's portrait
Yesterday, for example, she wore leopard-skin tights with a black velvet minidress to school. Her earrings were made out of fake-fur buttons. (She made them herself.)
Shannon's story
For example, today Stacey looked ultra-city in black: black leggings, a black sweater, a big black belt with an oversized buckle, black Doc Martens, and her hair pulled back with a black and gold scarf which picked up the gold of the gold chain earrings she was wearing.
Claudia was beyond the city, maybe into outer space and looking outrageous, artistically terrific: an enormous pair of pants held up with a man's belt and a pair of neon purple suspenders, and an enormous purple t-shirt over a tie-dyed long-underwear top, her long black hair was pulled back into a braid clipped at intervals with little kid barrettes, and she had a pair of these dangly peace-sign earrings.
SS1 Baby-sitters on board:
I put on my new blue-and white bikini and over that, a pink sundress with spaghetti straps at the shoulders and big blue buttons down the front. Then I accessorized. I tied a pink-and-blue scarf around my waist, knotting it in the middle, added my snake bracelet and feather earrings, wound my hair on top of my head, and finally put on these white sandals with long laces that you crisscross up your legs and tie in a bow.
a white tank to under lavender overalls, lavender push-down socks, lavender high-top sneakers and a beaded Indian belt, which we looped droopily twice around my middle. In my hair we put lavender-and-white clips that looked like birds.
SS4 Baby-sitters' Island Adventure:
She's put on a tank top and baggy drawstring pants. Over the top, she was wearing a button-down shirt of her father's. The sleeves were rolled up, but none of the buttons were buttoned. She was also wearing big earrings that she had made herself...As soon as we were on the water and had picked up some speed, her shirt started blowing around. She was busier peeling her shirt off her face than she was steering the boat or doing anything else. Then one of her huge earrings got caught on a sail and she had to struggle to set it free. With the wind blowing around me, I couldn't hear anything from her boat, but I could see her lips moving and I bet she was saying some things she isn't supposed to say. Anyway, the counselor took her earrings off for her, and Claudia buttoned up her shirt.
SS5 California Girls:
For instance, on the day of this meeting, she was wearing a red shirt with Mexican hats and cactus plants printed on it, and blue and white striped pants held up by polka-dotted suspenders. On her head was what looked like an engineer's cap (it matched her pants), and dangling from her ears were miniature cowboy boots, which she'd made herself.
SS8 Shadow lake
On that particular day, Claud was wearing a pink tank top over a whie tank top and a pair of neon pink and black bicycle shorts. Also, she was wearing three pairs of flop socks, arranged so that her ankles looked like multi colored ice cream cones. Her shoes were Day-Glo yellow. Stacey was wearing a simple (for her) outfit--black leggings, a long black t-shirt with brillant starfish swooping across the front, black flop socks and high tops.
[Jessi]A jean skirt, a yellow tank top, flop socks, and high-top sneakers.
SS10 Sea City, here we come
That Friday, for instance, she was wearing ripped cut-off jeans held up by a frayed rope belt, a T-shirt with the collar torn off, hug white socks all bunched around the ankle, and old-fashioned black lace-up shoes. She looked totally cool.
At our Friday meeting she was wearing this white T-shirt that hung practically to her knees (Stacey calls it a "jersey tunic" or something), white stretch pants ("ribbed leggings") to mid-calf, a tan leather belt over the T-shirt, and leather-strap sandals.
I was wearing the only long pants I had packed, these overdyed navy jeans. I was also wearing a loose black cotton sweater over a white tank top. So if I packed my big purple Hawaiian shorts, which were the next warmest pants, I'd be stuck having to wear an orange striped shirt, which was the only long-sleeved one I'd brought. Unless I wore the sweater again over it...
Claudia found me a pair of barrettes in the shape of flamingoes--but cool, not corny-looking. Then we bought about ten tiny buttons with pictures on them. The faces included Virginia Woolf, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Hawking, and Janis Joplin, but Claud didn't know who any of them were. She just picked them because they looked 'funky'.
I ended up choosing a short, flared, white-on-blue polka-dotted skirt (mine); a white, ribbed tanktop (Jessi's); and a long, royal-blue men's shirt with the tails tied in front (Claudia had run to her room for that)...We carefully placed some of the buttons we'd bought on the tanktop.
SM1 Baby-sitters haunted house
...a pair of bright blue Lycra biker shorts, a black lacy tank top, a man’s white dress shirt, baggy purple and white checked socks, red high-tops, and a pair of big gold hoop earrings with a brightly colored wooden parrot in each hoop.
I decided to wear my floral-print mini-sundress (the pink and red flower pattern is big and sorta abstract). To that I added a pink baseball cap, dangling yellow glass earrings, and my red-high tops.
Claud looking amazing in full-length black gauze skirt over a black leotard. She was wearing dangling glass earrings that she’d made from a chandelier. Her long black hair was held back on one side with a single red rose.
I put on my black gauze skirt and a red tank top, and tied my white silk bomber jacket around my waist. Then I put on my airplane earrings.
SM2 Baby-sitters Beware
Stacey (who is tall and on the thin side, with blonde hair and pale blue eyes) wore black leggings with cowboy boots , an oversized turtleneck sweater, and this cool black suede vest with pearl buttons. Claudia (who is Japanese-American with creamy, perfect skin, brown eyes, and long, straight black hair) was wearing leggings - purple ones - with black Doc Martens, red slouch socks, black bicycle shorts over the leggings, a big T-shirt with the words "This Might Be Art" scrawled on it in purple(I knew she'd made it herself), and an old black suit jacket of her father's, with the sleeves rolled up. Stacey had gone for your basic gold earrings. Claudia's earrings were purple feathers(she made those herself, too).
SM3 Fright Night
Claudia was no doubt running around Stoneybrook in some tribute to the season that included Halloween colors and themes (last year it was Doc Martens with pumpkin stickers, a hand-batiked shirt in orange and black, plus one orange sock and one black sock).
Stacey had gone for almost total black: black jeans, black boots, black turtleneck, silver cropped top over that, black boots with silver side buttons, and silver X earrings.
She [Eileen Murphy, the awkward sixth grader] was wearing a huge purple dress, a puffy orange windbreaker, and these really clunky shoes. Her hair stuck out in spikes beneath a wool hat that had a pattern of white snowflakes on a red background. She was fashion-challenged.
SM4 Christmas chiller:
For example, that day was cold and gray outside, but inside everything was brightened up by Claudia's rainbow look. She had braided her long jet-black hair into a single braid with narrow red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple ribbons woven in. Her short red turtleneck dress had a braided yellow belt, and she was wearing purple tights, yellow scrunch socks, and black Docs. Her earrings were in the shape of Christmas trees, but they were in rainbow colors, instead of just green. On some people this might have been too much, but on Claudia, with her creamy skin and dark eyes, it looked fabulous.
M1 Stacey and the missing ring
Claud looked terrific in black leggings, red high-top sneakers, and an oversized red sweater. She was carrying a red plastic lunch box as a purse.
M5 Mary Anne and and the secret of the attic:
a lacy white top over a solid white bodysuit, a black mini skirt with white polka dots on it, lacy white leggings, and red high-tops. Plus some really outrageous black-and-white jewelry (earrings and bracelets and necklaces) that she’d made herself out of papier mache.
M6 The Mystery at Claudia's House:
Lace leggings, purple tie-dyed T-shirt dress, and purple high-tops.
Black-and-white checked stretch pants, red belt, black shirt with white polka dots, red ankle boots, hair in a ponytail on the side of my head(fastened with a black-and-white barrette), and favourite red heart-shaped earrings.
M7 Dawn and the disappearing dogs
A blue minidress with white polka dots, white leggings, and earrings that looked like white polka dots.
M9 Kristy and the haunted mansion
Like lacy purple leggings with big floral tops, or black miniskirts with little cowboy shoes.
Claudia might wear a hand-painted silk scarf to top off a polka-dotted jumpsuit, for example. Or two handmade papier-mâché earrings that look like little donuts, with a third that looks like a cup of coffee.
She was wearing white knee-length jean shorts, white Keds, and a tie-dyed T-shirt she'd made the weekend before. It was a beautiful one, with spirals of yellow and green and purple, and she was proud of it.
M11 Claudia and the mystery at the museum:
That Sunday, my hair was in a long braid hanging down one side of my head, with red ribbons threaded into it. I was wearing a red-and-white striped shirt that hung down almost to my knees, red leggings, and black high-top sneakers.
I had dressed up a little, in pink lace leggings and a long black sweater. My hair was tied back with a pink ribbon, and I was wearing pink ballet-type flats.
I was wearing a pair of bright red leggings topped by a white man-tailored shirt and a vest that used to belong to my father.
M13 Mary Anne and the library mystery:
Claudia was wearing a big white shirt over a bright pink jumpsuit. Her earrings, also bright pink, were in the shape of flamingos. On her feet were pink high-tops. Stacey was wearing a red miniskirt, a red-and-white striped shirt, red heart-shaped earrings, and short black boots.
M14 Stacey and the mystery at the mall
[Claudia]a neon-pink bandana around her head; a humongous pair of overalls over an ancient striped T-shirt
M16 Claudia and the clue in the photograph:
Staring back at me was a medium-height Japanese-American girl with almond-shaped eyes and long, black hair held back by a pink, star-shaped barrette. She wore a silky pink tank top with a man's white shirt tied casually over it, white jeans, and flip-flops decorated with more pink stars.
I dressed quickly, in jeans and my Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt (no high fashion today; I was planning to work hard).
That day I'd worn one of my favorite outfits to school: a lacy white shirt with big ruffled sleeves over a deep green leotard, with short blue-jeans skirt and my favorite shoes (at least my favorites that summer): big black clunky boots.
Since I knew I was going to be in the darkroom, I threw off all my good clothes and pulled on an old pair of shorts and my ancient green Sea City T-shirt.
M19 Kristy and the missing fortune
Claudia was wearing this blue-and-green stripey shirt that was kind of tight and stretchy-looking. Over it she was wearing a really, really baggy pair of overalls. On her head was a floppy green hat, and on her feet were those big black clunky boots made by Doctor somebody.
Stacey: Platform shoes with really high cork soles (I'm sorry, but I just don't understand why somebody would want to totter around like that), black, lacy legging-things, and a blue dress that looked kind of like these pajamas I used to have when I was seven. Baby dolls, I think they're called.
a skirt that looked as if she'd ironed it five minutes ago, even though she'd had it on all day, a fresh white shirt, and a red sweater.
Dawn is wearing a soft, fuzzy brown sweater that looked terrific with her long blonde hair, and cozy-looking white thermal leggings.
Jessi had on a black ballet-leotard top and jeans, with bulky red knitted leg warmers slouched around her ankles. Mal was wearing jeans, a purple sweater, and a big yellow button that said "I Read Banned Books."
Claudia was wearing black jeans, short black cowboy boots, and a black suede jacket with fringe along the back and arms and silver buttons that looked like those old Indian-head nickels.
Stacey was wearing black leggings, black high-top sneakers, and a long, bulky dark green sweater. She had hidden her blonde hair beneath a dark green wool baseball cap.
M25 Kristy and the Middle School Vandal
Today she was wearing pink jellies, white ankle socks with pink hearts around the edges, and majorly baggy white overalls, cut off just below the knee, over a tie-dyed pink, green, and yellow T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up. She had a ring on every finger and one on each thumb, including a heart-shaped mood ring, a ring with a little bell on it, a ring that looked like a cat winding around her finger, a baby ring with her birthstone in it, and a ring she'd made herself out of clay and beads. Her hair was pulled back into three braids, which were tied together at the bottom with a pink and green ribbon. She had on her peace symbol earrings, too, and a button that said 'Jerry Garcia Lives' in black script against a tie-dyed background that matched her T-shirt. She'd made the button herself in art class.
One of Stacey's best colors is black - a New York City thing, I guess - and today she was wearing black leggings, side-zippered flat black ankle boots with pointed toes, a silver-threaded T-shirt dress that stopped at mid-thigh, and heart earrings. Her fluffy blonde hair was pulled back with a twisted black and silver headband.
M26 Dawn Schafer, undercover baby-sitter
[Claudia] A bright yellow pair of overall shorts over a tie-dyed baby-T in all the colors of the rainbow. She wore purple jellies, and her toenails, which showed through the plastic, were painted scarlet. A green scrunchie, holding her hair into a cool-looking Pebbles ‘do, topped off the look.
M27 Claudia and the lighthouse ghost
I was wearing a white high-collared dentist's shirt and a loose-fitting Chinese silk jacket, chinched at the waist by a bright-orange scarf, over tight black flared pants. My hair was gathered on top of my head with an orange bandanna.
M28 Abby and the mystery baby
[Claudia]A funky red-flannel minidress layered with a black-and-white-checked thrift-shop man’s vest, black tights, and red high-tops.
[Stacey]Her jeans were stonewashed to a perfect degree of faded blue, and torn at the knee in this casual-yet-not-sloppy way. She wore them with a crisp white shirt, a green V-necked sweater, and brown Hush Puppies.
M29 Stacey and the fashion victim
[Claudia]A pair of white jeans with drips and squiggles of colorful paint all over them, a smocklike denim shirt, her favorite red high-top sneakers, and a hairdo that said ‘creative’ – a loose bun held in place by two red lacquered chopsticks
M30 Kristy and the mystery train
Stacey was wearing an oversized butter-coloured linen shirt that matched her hair, which was pulled back into a sleek French braid. Her baggy chino shorts were rolled up to exactly the same length on each leg, above the knee. Her sandals had cork soles, which made her look even taller and more elegant.
Today she was in bright mode: red shorts, a purple crop top over a longer red-and-white striped muscle shirt, purple socks, and red high-tops laced with red-and-white striped shoe laces. Her hair was pulled up to one side with a knot of red and purple scrunchies and her earrings were shiny red apples.
Mallory wore a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, long baggy shorts, and sneakers with ankle socks. Both Mary Anne and Claudia were in cutoffs and sandals, with their swimming gear in their packs. Claudia was wearing a huge tie-dyed t-shirt knotted at the waist, and her sandals sported flowers that matched the flower barrette holding back her hair. Her gear was in her funky, bright yellow, plastic mesh tote that was exactly the same shade as the rims of her big, round sunglasses. Mary Anne was wearing a faded green Izod shirt and a baseball cap that read Ted’s tools. Jessis hair was in a French Braid. She was wearing blue bicycle shorts with a red cutoff t-shirt over a blue sports top and reef-runners.
M31 Mary Anne and the music box mystery
Claudia had on her favorite painter’s pants. They used to be white, but…now they’re splattered with paint in every color of the rainbow. To complement the pants, Claudia wore a tie-dyed shirt…that features a huge yellow peace sign surrounded by star bursts of orange, red, and purple.
Stacey was wearing a pair of pink denim overall shorts with a white baby T underneath. Purple Doc Martens and a white baseball cap…completed the look.
M32 Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting.
Today I had on navy blue pants with wide legs, red suspenders decorated with big sunbursts, a white T-shirt, and over it all, a huge red-and-white -checked shirt. My earrings were also bright yellow sunbursts that I had made to match the suspenders. My hair was in one long braid hanging down my back, tied with a red-and-white-checked bow.
[Stacey] Short plaid red and black skirt, clunky black shoes, ribbed black turtleneck, and red vest.
[Claud] Overalls and a long-sleeved green-and-blue striped shirt and a green-and-blue checked cap.
I was wearing a long, full, black skirt with red, orange, pink, yellow, and turquoise flowers embroidered along the hem; a loose pink top; and a necklace I’d made out of papier-mâché beads painted to match the flowers on the skirt.
M34 Mary Anne and the haunted bookstore
A pair of jeans, but they weren’t like anyone else’s jeans. She’d painted raindrops down each leg. Over the jeans she wore a long white shirt and a gray vest. The vest had little umbrellas painted all over it. For earrings, she wore paper parasols attached to gold chains.
M36 Kristy and the cat burglar
[Claudia]Purple painter’s pants with lots of loops and pockets for carrying tools, red high-tops with purple laces, and a red sweatshirt customized with purple embroidery.
Stacey has on khaki pants and a white button-down blouse. She has a dark blue ribbon in her hair…her shoes are brown lace-up boots.
1 Kristy's Great Idea:
She was wearing a short, very baggy lavender plaid overalls, a white lacy blouse, a black fedora, and red high-top sneakers without socks. Her long black hair was carefully arranged in four braids.
...she has this wild streak in her that makes her buy belts made of feathers and wear knee socks with palm trees on them.
I crossed the street to Claudia's house and rang the bell. Claudia answered it again, this time wearing a baggy yellow- and black-checked shirt, black pants, red jazz shoes, and a bracelet that looked like it was made from a telephone cord. Her earrings were dangling jointed skeletons that jumped around when she moved.
Stacey had on a pink sweatshirt with sequins and a large purple parrot on the front; short, tight-fitting jeans with zippers up the outsides of the legs; and pink plastic shoes.
I rembered that Stacey was wearing a matching top and skirt made of gray sweat shirt material with big yellow number tens all over it. Her hair was pinned back with clips shped like rainbows. Little silver whistles were dangling from her ears.
2 Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls:
Today, for instance, I'm wearing purple pants that stop just below my knees and are held up with suspenders, white tight with clocks on them, a purple-plaid shirt with a matching hat, my high-top sneakers, and lobster earrings.
3 The Truth About Stacey:
the dinosaur on my beret, red sneakers covered with beads and glitter, leg warmers covered with footprints, plastic butterflies in my hair. For two week in New York I even wore red lace gloves with no fingertips.
4 Mary Anne Saves the Day:
Just once I'd like to go to school wearing skintight turquoise pants, Stacey's "island" shirt with the flamingos and toucans all over it, and maybe bright red, high-top sneakers. I'd like to create a sensation. (Well, half of me would. The other half would be too shy to want to attract any attention.)
She even has one pair of earrings that consist of a dog for one ear and a bone for the other ear.
5 Dawn and the Impossible Three:
Stacey trotted over to me, looking fabulous as always. She was wearing a simple pink T-shirt under a baggy jumpsuit with big pink and red flowers all over it. Her permed hair bounced over her shoulders. I was wearing blue jean shorts and a white T-shirt that said "Genius Inside". I looked ordinary next to Stacey.
6 Kristy's Big Day:
She was wearing one of her usual outrageous outfits: a black leotard and skintight red pants under a white shirt that was so big it looked like a lab coat. Claudia's a wonderful artist and she had decorated the shirt herself, covering it with designs painted in acrylic. She had pinned her long, black hair back at the sides with red clips.
Stacey’s blonde hair was permed, and what with that, her purple nail polish, and her Swatch accessories, she looked, well, kind of like a thirteen-year-old Madonna.
Claudia had helped me choose a new dress the week before. It was a gigantic white sweater with silver designs woven into it. It was a very un-Kristy-type dress-- and I felt glamorous.
7 Claudia and Mean Janine:
It was a big, loose white shirt with black splotches all over it, and white pants that came to just below my knees. My shoes (and I might point out that I’d had a fight with Mom over permission to buy them) were dainty gold sandals that laced partway up my legs. Then I put on my pink flaming earrings and a pink bracelet that said CLAUDIA in heart shaped beads [both mature and wild]. Finally I braided my hair into four long braids, tied a ribbon around the top of each, and fastened the ends with butterfly clips.
I finished dressing in my favorite art class outfit - black jeans, a giant bright blue T-shirt, and a snake bracelet that I wore above my elbow.
Stacey, wearing a pair of knee-length lime-green shorts, matching green high-topped sneakers, and a large white T-shirt with a gigantic taxicab on the front, was setting up benches at the two picnic tables. Mary Anne and Kristy, much more casual dressers, were each wearing blue jean shorts, running shoes, and T-shirts. Mary Anne’s shirt, though, was pretty, with a scoop neck and lace edging on the sleeves, while Kristy was wearing an old gray thing that had probably once belonged to Sam or Charlie. It said BOHREN’S MOVERS in faded black letters across the back. Dawn, in a surprisingly New York kind of outfit (she usually goes for California casual), was wearing striped pants with suspenders over a red shirt.
8 Boy-Crazy Stacey:
I decided on this new pink shirt I got the last time we went back to New York City to visit friends. Big, bright green and yellow birds were splashed all over it. It was gigantic, so it would be cool. I put it on with a pair of baggy shorts, looped a wide green belt around my middle, and hunted up some silver jewelry—silver bangle bracelets and a pair of silver earrings shaped like bells that actually ring when they dangle back and forth.
(Stacey’s bikini) skimpy (and we’re talking very skimpy) and yellow, with tiny bows at the sides on the bottom part. And if I do say so myself, the top part was filled out pretty nicely.
I put on a white cotton vest over a pink cotton dress and tied a big white bow in my hair so that it flopped over the side of my head. Mary Anne couldn’t find anything of her own that she really liked, so I loaned her my yellow pedalpushers, a yellow and white striped tank top, and an oversized white jacket.
10 Logan Likes Mary Anne!:
In the junior department I tried on a green sweater dress that made me look like a mermaid, and a yellow sweater dress that made me look as big as a house. Then Claudia handed me a full white skirt with the words Paris, Rome, and London, and sketchy pink and blue pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the Tower Bridge, and other stuff scrawled all over it. She matched it up with a pink shirt and a baggy pink sweater. I would never, ever have tried on that skirt, but with the shirt and sweater it looked really cool.
In the shoe department we found white slip-ons with pink and blue edging that matched the pink and blue in the skirt. I'd never have looked twice at those shoes, either, but with the rest of the outfit they were perfect.
Claudia was wearing short, tight-fitting black pants and a big white shirt that said BE-BOP all over it in between pictures of rock and roll dancers. She had fixed a floppy blue bow in her hair. Stacey was wearing a white T-shirt under a hot pink jumpsuit. Dawn and Kristy looked more casual. Dawn was wearing a green and white oversized sweater and stretchy green pants. Kristy was wearing a white turtleneck shirt under a pink sweater with jeans. We just couldn’t seem to get her out of blue jeans.
12
Claudia and the new girl
She was wearing a very pretty pink flowered skirt that was full and so long it touched the tops of her shoes – which I soon realized were not shoes, but sort of hiking boots. Her blouse, loose and lacy, was embroidered with pink flowers, and both her wrists were loaded with silver bangle bracelets. Her hair, which was almost as long as my friend Dawn’s and was dirty blonde, was pulled into a fat braid (which, I might add, was not held in place with a rubber band or anything; it just sort of trailed to an end). But the amazing thing was that because her hair was pulled back, you could see her ears. And she had three pierced earrings in each ear. They were all silver and all dangly, but none matched.
I was wearing a very short pink cotton dress, white tights, and black ballet slippers. I had swept all of my hair way over to one side, where it was held in place with a piece of pink cloth that matched the dress. Only one ear showed, and in it I had put my big palm tree earring.
She was wearing a puffy white blouse, a blue-jean jacket, a long blue-jean skirt, and those hiking boots again. Beaded bracelets circled both wrists, and she’d tied a strip of faded denim around her head, like an Indian headband. Since her hair was loose that day, I couldn’t get a good look at her ears. I wanted to see if she was wearing six earrings again.
She was wearing a long, all-the-way-to-her-ankles dress with three rows of ruffles at the bottom. A strip of black cloth was tied around her head. I couldn’t see her earrings, but she looked … well, all right, I’ll admit it. She looked a little bizarre.
13 Goodbye, Stacey, Goodbye:
I caught sight of her earrings, which were dangly little teddy bears.
On Saturday, I pulled on a pair of blue stretch pants and a white sweat shirt decorated with stars and sequins. "Put on jeans and your gray sweat shirt"Kristy was wearing jeans and a blue sweat shirt.
She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit – a purple-and-white striped body suit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the body suit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple push-down socks anyway. Around her middle was a wide purple belt with a buckle in the shape of a telephone. And on her feet were black ballet slippers.
She was wearing a very short kilt, an oversized red sweater, and yellow socks over red tights. On her head was a red beret with a sparkly initial pin attached to the side.
It was tame, but not dorky – a navy blue minidress with a pink sash, blue tights, and black slippers like Claudia’s.
Kristy was wearing her uniform – jeans, a turtleneck (pale blue), a sweater (blue-and-white striped), and sneakers.
14 Hello, Mallory:
I finally decided on my red jumper that said Mallory across the front, a short-sleeved white blouse, and white tights with little red hearts all over them.
She was wearing faded jeans, sneakers, a pale pink turtleneck, and a dark pink sweater.
…she was wearing a baggy yellow sweater with a silver squiggle pin near the collar, a short skirt made out of sweat-shirt material, yellow tights, and ballet slippers.
She wears kind of casual clothes, like baggy jeans with the cuffs rolled up, shirts with the tails out, and big belts.
Things like short, tight pants with little ballet slippers, or torn T-shirts decorated with sequins, or overalls and high-topped sneakers. And her jewelry! She has a bracelet that looks like a coiled snake, and earrings that are a dog for one ear and a bone for the other, and I don't know what else.
I threw on a pair of jeans, a sweat shirt that said I’D RATHER BE WRITING MY NOVEL, and a pair of sneakers.
17 Mary Anne and the bad luck mystery
The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it- cabbages and squashes and turnips and stuff. Under the blouse was a very short jean skirt, white stockings, green anklets over the stockings, and lavender sneakers, the kind boys usually wear, with a lot of rubber and big laces with the name of the manufactuer in huge letters on the side. Wait, I'm not done. Claudia had pulled the hair on one side of her head back with a yellow clip that looked like a poodle. THe hair on the other side of her head was hanging on her face. Attached to the one ear you could see a plastic earring about the size of a jar lid. Awesome.
18 Stacey's Mistake:
For instance, she'll part (her hair) down the middle, fix one side in three or four braids, and let the other side fall loosely over her shoulder.
"Wear your black outfit. The really cool one," I told her. Claudia has incredible clothes. And I wanted her to wear this outfit that was sleek and black and covered with silver stars and sparkles.
Kristy was wearing a white turtleneck with little red and blue hears all over it, a red sweater, jeans, and sneakers.
Claudia had on the black outfit we'd talked about over the phone so long ago. And she was wearing her hair simply, for once - brushed back from her face and held in place by a white beaded headband.
Dawn had chosen a an oversized peach-colored sweater-dress, lacy white stockings, and black ballet slippers.
I was wearing a short, short yellow dress that flared out just above my hips, white stockings, yellow push-down socks, and these new shoes that my parents hate. It was an interesting outfit, one I'd thought up while we were dressing.
And what was Mary Anne, the fashion plate, wearing? Well, here's a clue. She looked like she'd walked right out of the pages of Little House on the Prairie. I had chosen a bright, big-patterned sweater and a pair of black pants for her. She'd looked at them, shaken her head, replaced them in her suitcase, and put on this other outfit - a ruffly white blouse, a long paisley skirt, and these little brown boots. It was very mature and attractive, but Mary Anne was the only one of my friends who, when dressed up, actually looked like she came from Connecticut.
Laine was beyond chic. She was wearing a short black dress, black stockings and simple black flats. On one wrist was a single silver bangle bracelet. On her dress was one of those silver squiggle pins. Her fluffy brown hair as newly permed and perfectly cut. She looked wonderful - and at least nineteen. My friends were speechless. Claudia looked good, too, but well, maybe only fifteen - tops. Her hair was long and flowing, and her outfit was wild, but not particularly adult.
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BSC prequel, The summer before
Claudia was wearing willowy black pants, cinched at the waist with a drawstring, and a boldly patterned summer shirt with ties that she was adjusting around her midriff. Her midriff would have been bare, but Claud had slithered into a lacy black tank top before she'd put on the shirt. On her feet were delicate silvery sandals, and her hair, which was looooooong and thick, was held away from her face with two silver combs.
FF1
cutoff jeans over bicycle shorts , and suspenders she'd coated with buttons. Beneath that, she was wearing a paint-splattered t-shirt, which she called her tribute to Jackson Pollock.
FF2
bright yellow tights with black stripes under a short tie-dye jumper and long-sleeved neon-pink t-shirt, ankle-high vinyl boots.
FF3
Today she was wearing white painters coveralls decorated with a wild daisy pattern she's created herself.
FF5
I was wearing a holiday version of my usual "uniform": instead of jeans I wore dark green corduroys, and I'd topped them with a bright red turtleneck. Stacey was wearing a red woolen miniskirt topped with a little red woolen jacket (she looked like a very hip Mrs. Claus). Claudia had on red-and-white-striped stockings (the candy cane look) and a white dress with red polka dots. Miniature green Christmas tree earrings dangled from her ears. Mary Anne looked beautiful in a navy blue velvet dress. And Dawn was doing Christmas California-style, in a white denim miniskirt and green silk blouse.
Stacey's portrait
Today, at this moment, I'm wearing black tights, a pink-and-black striped oversized sweat shirt, and pink hightop sneakers.
That day, she had on a purple jacket, black tights and red cowboy boots. Her black hair was half piled on her head and half down her back, so the brightly colored three-hoop earrings she'd made for herself showed off nicely.
Abby's portrait
Yesterday, for example, she wore leopard-skin tights with a black velvet minidress to school. Her earrings were made out of fake-fur buttons. (She made them herself.)
Shannon's story
For example, today Stacey looked ultra-city in black: black leggings, a black sweater, a big black belt with an oversized buckle, black Doc Martens, and her hair pulled back with a black and gold scarf which picked up the gold of the gold chain earrings she was wearing.
Claudia was beyond the city, maybe into outer space and looking outrageous, artistically terrific: an enormous pair of pants held up with a man's belt and a pair of neon purple suspenders, and an enormous purple t-shirt over a tie-dyed long-underwear top, her long black hair was pulled back into a braid clipped at intervals with little kid barrettes, and she had a pair of these dangly peace-sign earrings.
SS1 Baby-sitters on board:
I put on my new blue-and white bikini and over that, a pink sundress with spaghetti straps at the shoulders and big blue buttons down the front. Then I accessorized. I tied a pink-and-blue scarf around my waist, knotting it in the middle, added my snake bracelet and feather earrings, wound my hair on top of my head, and finally put on these white sandals with long laces that you crisscross up your legs and tie in a bow.
a white tank to under lavender overalls, lavender push-down socks, lavender high-top sneakers and a beaded Indian belt, which we looped droopily twice around my middle. In my hair we put lavender-and-white clips that looked like birds.
SS4 Baby-sitters' Island Adventure:
She's put on a tank top and baggy drawstring pants. Over the top, she was wearing a button-down shirt of her father's. The sleeves were rolled up, but none of the buttons were buttoned. She was also wearing big earrings that she had made herself...As soon as we were on the water and had picked up some speed, her shirt started blowing around. She was busier peeling her shirt off her face than she was steering the boat or doing anything else. Then one of her huge earrings got caught on a sail and she had to struggle to set it free. With the wind blowing around me, I couldn't hear anything from her boat, but I could see her lips moving and I bet she was saying some things she isn't supposed to say. Anyway, the counselor took her earrings off for her, and Claudia buttoned up her shirt.
SS5 California Girls:
For instance, on the day of this meeting, she was wearing a red shirt with Mexican hats and cactus plants printed on it, and blue and white striped pants held up by polka-dotted suspenders. On her head was what looked like an engineer's cap (it matched her pants), and dangling from her ears were miniature cowboy boots, which she'd made herself.
SS8 Shadow lake
On that particular day, Claud was wearing a pink tank top over a whie tank top and a pair of neon pink and black bicycle shorts. Also, she was wearing three pairs of flop socks, arranged so that her ankles looked like multi colored ice cream cones. Her shoes were Day-Glo yellow. Stacey was wearing a simple (for her) outfit--black leggings, a long black t-shirt with brillant starfish swooping across the front, black flop socks and high tops.
[Jessi]A jean skirt, a yellow tank top, flop socks, and high-top sneakers.
SS10 Sea City, here we come
That Friday, for instance, she was wearing ripped cut-off jeans held up by a frayed rope belt, a T-shirt with the collar torn off, hug white socks all bunched around the ankle, and old-fashioned black lace-up shoes. She looked totally cool.
At our Friday meeting she was wearing this white T-shirt that hung practically to her knees (Stacey calls it a "jersey tunic" or something), white stretch pants ("ribbed leggings") to mid-calf, a tan leather belt over the T-shirt, and leather-strap sandals.
I was wearing the only long pants I had packed, these overdyed navy jeans. I was also wearing a loose black cotton sweater over a white tank top. So if I packed my big purple Hawaiian shorts, which were the next warmest pants, I'd be stuck having to wear an orange striped shirt, which was the only long-sleeved one I'd brought. Unless I wore the sweater again over it...
Claudia found me a pair of barrettes in the shape of flamingoes--but cool, not corny-looking. Then we bought about ten tiny buttons with pictures on them. The faces included Virginia Woolf, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Hawking, and Janis Joplin, but Claud didn't know who any of them were. She just picked them because they looked 'funky'.
I ended up choosing a short, flared, white-on-blue polka-dotted skirt (mine); a white, ribbed tanktop (Jessi's); and a long, royal-blue men's shirt with the tails tied in front (Claudia had run to her room for that)...We carefully placed some of the buttons we'd bought on the tanktop.
SM1 Baby-sitters haunted house
...a pair of bright blue Lycra biker shorts, a black lacy tank top, a man’s white dress shirt, baggy purple and white checked socks, red high-tops, and a pair of big gold hoop earrings with a brightly colored wooden parrot in each hoop.
I decided to wear my floral-print mini-sundress (the pink and red flower pattern is big and sorta abstract). To that I added a pink baseball cap, dangling yellow glass earrings, and my red-high tops.
Claud looking amazing in full-length black gauze skirt over a black leotard. She was wearing dangling glass earrings that she’d made from a chandelier. Her long black hair was held back on one side with a single red rose.
I put on my black gauze skirt and a red tank top, and tied my white silk bomber jacket around my waist. Then I put on my airplane earrings.
SM2 Baby-sitters Beware
Stacey (who is tall and on the thin side, with blonde hair and pale blue eyes) wore black leggings with cowboy boots , an oversized turtleneck sweater, and this cool black suede vest with pearl buttons. Claudia (who is Japanese-American with creamy, perfect skin, brown eyes, and long, straight black hair) was wearing leggings - purple ones - with black Doc Martens, red slouch socks, black bicycle shorts over the leggings, a big T-shirt with the words "This Might Be Art" scrawled on it in purple(I knew she'd made it herself), and an old black suit jacket of her father's, with the sleeves rolled up. Stacey had gone for your basic gold earrings. Claudia's earrings were purple feathers(she made those herself, too).
SM3 Fright Night
Claudia was no doubt running around Stoneybrook in some tribute to the season that included Halloween colors and themes (last year it was Doc Martens with pumpkin stickers, a hand-batiked shirt in orange and black, plus one orange sock and one black sock).
Stacey had gone for almost total black: black jeans, black boots, black turtleneck, silver cropped top over that, black boots with silver side buttons, and silver X earrings.
She [Eileen Murphy, the awkward sixth grader] was wearing a huge purple dress, a puffy orange windbreaker, and these really clunky shoes. Her hair stuck out in spikes beneath a wool hat that had a pattern of white snowflakes on a red background. She was fashion-challenged.
SM4 Christmas chiller:
For example, that day was cold and gray outside, but inside everything was brightened up by Claudia's rainbow look. She had braided her long jet-black hair into a single braid with narrow red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple ribbons woven in. Her short red turtleneck dress had a braided yellow belt, and she was wearing purple tights, yellow scrunch socks, and black Docs. Her earrings were in the shape of Christmas trees, but they were in rainbow colors, instead of just green. On some people this might have been too much, but on Claudia, with her creamy skin and dark eyes, it looked fabulous.
M1 Stacey and the missing ring
Claud looked terrific in black leggings, red high-top sneakers, and an oversized red sweater. She was carrying a red plastic lunch box as a purse.
M5 Mary Anne and and the secret of the attic:
a lacy white top over a solid white bodysuit, a black mini skirt with white polka dots on it, lacy white leggings, and red high-tops. Plus some really outrageous black-and-white jewelry (earrings and bracelets and necklaces) that she’d made herself out of papier mache.
M6 The Mystery at Claudia's House:
Lace leggings, purple tie-dyed T-shirt dress, and purple high-tops.
Black-and-white checked stretch pants, red belt, black shirt with white polka dots, red ankle boots, hair in a ponytail on the side of my head(fastened with a black-and-white barrette), and favourite red heart-shaped earrings.
M7 Dawn and the disappearing dogs
A blue minidress with white polka dots, white leggings, and earrings that looked like white polka dots.
M9 Kristy and the haunted mansion
Like lacy purple leggings with big floral tops, or black miniskirts with little cowboy shoes.
Claudia might wear a hand-painted silk scarf to top off a polka-dotted jumpsuit, for example. Or two handmade papier-mâché earrings that look like little donuts, with a third that looks like a cup of coffee.
She was wearing white knee-length jean shorts, white Keds, and a tie-dyed T-shirt she'd made the weekend before. It was a beautiful one, with spirals of yellow and green and purple, and she was proud of it.
M11 Claudia and the mystery at the museum:
That Sunday, my hair was in a long braid hanging down one side of my head, with red ribbons threaded into it. I was wearing a red-and-white striped shirt that hung down almost to my knees, red leggings, and black high-top sneakers.
I had dressed up a little, in pink lace leggings and a long black sweater. My hair was tied back with a pink ribbon, and I was wearing pink ballet-type flats.
I was wearing a pair of bright red leggings topped by a white man-tailored shirt and a vest that used to belong to my father.
M13 Mary Anne and the library mystery:
Claudia was wearing a big white shirt over a bright pink jumpsuit. Her earrings, also bright pink, were in the shape of flamingos. On her feet were pink high-tops. Stacey was wearing a red miniskirt, a red-and-white striped shirt, red heart-shaped earrings, and short black boots.
M14 Stacey and the mystery at the mall
[Claudia]a neon-pink bandana around her head; a humongous pair of overalls over an ancient striped T-shirt
M16 Claudia and the clue in the photograph:
Staring back at me was a medium-height Japanese-American girl with almond-shaped eyes and long, black hair held back by a pink, star-shaped barrette. She wore a silky pink tank top with a man's white shirt tied casually over it, white jeans, and flip-flops decorated with more pink stars.
I dressed quickly, in jeans and my Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt (no high fashion today; I was planning to work hard).
That day I'd worn one of my favorite outfits to school: a lacy white shirt with big ruffled sleeves over a deep green leotard, with short blue-jeans skirt and my favorite shoes (at least my favorites that summer): big black clunky boots.
Since I knew I was going to be in the darkroom, I threw off all my good clothes and pulled on an old pair of shorts and my ancient green Sea City T-shirt.
M19 Kristy and the missing fortune
Claudia was wearing this blue-and-green stripey shirt that was kind of tight and stretchy-looking. Over it she was wearing a really, really baggy pair of overalls. On her head was a floppy green hat, and on her feet were those big black clunky boots made by Doctor somebody.
Stacey: Platform shoes with really high cork soles (I'm sorry, but I just don't understand why somebody would want to totter around like that), black, lacy legging-things, and a blue dress that looked kind of like these pajamas I used to have when I was seven. Baby dolls, I think they're called.
a skirt that looked as if she'd ironed it five minutes ago, even though she'd had it on all day, a fresh white shirt, and a red sweater.
Dawn is wearing a soft, fuzzy brown sweater that looked terrific with her long blonde hair, and cozy-looking white thermal leggings.
Jessi had on a black ballet-leotard top and jeans, with bulky red knitted leg warmers slouched around her ankles. Mal was wearing jeans, a purple sweater, and a big yellow button that said "I Read Banned Books."
Claudia was wearing black jeans, short black cowboy boots, and a black suede jacket with fringe along the back and arms and silver buttons that looked like those old Indian-head nickels.
Stacey was wearing black leggings, black high-top sneakers, and a long, bulky dark green sweater. She had hidden her blonde hair beneath a dark green wool baseball cap.
M25 Kristy and the Middle School Vandal
Today she was wearing pink jellies, white ankle socks with pink hearts around the edges, and majorly baggy white overalls, cut off just below the knee, over a tie-dyed pink, green, and yellow T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up. She had a ring on every finger and one on each thumb, including a heart-shaped mood ring, a ring with a little bell on it, a ring that looked like a cat winding around her finger, a baby ring with her birthstone in it, and a ring she'd made herself out of clay and beads. Her hair was pulled back into three braids, which were tied together at the bottom with a pink and green ribbon. She had on her peace symbol earrings, too, and a button that said 'Jerry Garcia Lives' in black script against a tie-dyed background that matched her T-shirt. She'd made the button herself in art class.
One of Stacey's best colors is black - a New York City thing, I guess - and today she was wearing black leggings, side-zippered flat black ankle boots with pointed toes, a silver-threaded T-shirt dress that stopped at mid-thigh, and heart earrings. Her fluffy blonde hair was pulled back with a twisted black and silver headband.
M26 Dawn Schafer, undercover baby-sitter
[Claudia] A bright yellow pair of overall shorts over a tie-dyed baby-T in all the colors of the rainbow. She wore purple jellies, and her toenails, which showed through the plastic, were painted scarlet. A green scrunchie, holding her hair into a cool-looking Pebbles ‘do, topped off the look.
M27 Claudia and the lighthouse ghost
I was wearing a white high-collared dentist's shirt and a loose-fitting Chinese silk jacket, chinched at the waist by a bright-orange scarf, over tight black flared pants. My hair was gathered on top of my head with an orange bandanna.
M28 Abby and the mystery baby
[Claudia]A funky red-flannel minidress layered with a black-and-white-checked thrift-shop man’s vest, black tights, and red high-tops.
[Stacey]Her jeans were stonewashed to a perfect degree of faded blue, and torn at the knee in this casual-yet-not-sloppy way. She wore them with a crisp white shirt, a green V-necked sweater, and brown Hush Puppies.
M29 Stacey and the fashion victim
[Claudia]A pair of white jeans with drips and squiggles of colorful paint all over them, a smocklike denim shirt, her favorite red high-top sneakers, and a hairdo that said ‘creative’ – a loose bun held in place by two red lacquered chopsticks
M30 Kristy and the mystery train
Stacey was wearing an oversized butter-coloured linen shirt that matched her hair, which was pulled back into a sleek French braid. Her baggy chino shorts were rolled up to exactly the same length on each leg, above the knee. Her sandals had cork soles, which made her look even taller and more elegant.
Today she was in bright mode: red shorts, a purple crop top over a longer red-and-white striped muscle shirt, purple socks, and red high-tops laced with red-and-white striped shoe laces. Her hair was pulled up to one side with a knot of red and purple scrunchies and her earrings were shiny red apples.
Mallory wore a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, long baggy shorts, and sneakers with ankle socks. Both Mary Anne and Claudia were in cutoffs and sandals, with their swimming gear in their packs. Claudia was wearing a huge tie-dyed t-shirt knotted at the waist, and her sandals sported flowers that matched the flower barrette holding back her hair. Her gear was in her funky, bright yellow, plastic mesh tote that was exactly the same shade as the rims of her big, round sunglasses. Mary Anne was wearing a faded green Izod shirt and a baseball cap that read Ted’s tools. Jessis hair was in a French Braid. She was wearing blue bicycle shorts with a red cutoff t-shirt over a blue sports top and reef-runners.
M31 Mary Anne and the music box mystery
Claudia had on her favorite painter’s pants. They used to be white, but…now they’re splattered with paint in every color of the rainbow. To complement the pants, Claudia wore a tie-dyed shirt…that features a huge yellow peace sign surrounded by star bursts of orange, red, and purple.
Stacey was wearing a pair of pink denim overall shorts with a white baby T underneath. Purple Doc Martens and a white baseball cap…completed the look.
M32 Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting.
Today I had on navy blue pants with wide legs, red suspenders decorated with big sunbursts, a white T-shirt, and over it all, a huge red-and-white -checked shirt. My earrings were also bright yellow sunbursts that I had made to match the suspenders. My hair was in one long braid hanging down my back, tied with a red-and-white-checked bow.
[Stacey] Short plaid red and black skirt, clunky black shoes, ribbed black turtleneck, and red vest.
[Claud] Overalls and a long-sleeved green-and-blue striped shirt and a green-and-blue checked cap.
I was wearing a long, full, black skirt with red, orange, pink, yellow, and turquoise flowers embroidered along the hem; a loose pink top; and a necklace I’d made out of papier-mâché beads painted to match the flowers on the skirt.
M34 Mary Anne and the haunted bookstore
A pair of jeans, but they weren’t like anyone else’s jeans. She’d painted raindrops down each leg. Over the jeans she wore a long white shirt and a gray vest. The vest had little umbrellas painted all over it. For earrings, she wore paper parasols attached to gold chains.
M36 Kristy and the cat burglar
[Claudia]Purple painter’s pants with lots of loops and pockets for carrying tools, red high-tops with purple laces, and a red sweatshirt customized with purple embroidery.
Stacey has on khaki pants and a white button-down blouse. She has a dark blue ribbon in her hair…her shoes are brown lace-up boots.
1 Kristy's Great Idea:
She was wearing a short, very baggy lavender plaid overalls, a white lacy blouse, a black fedora, and red high-top sneakers without socks. Her long black hair was carefully arranged in four braids.
...she has this wild streak in her that makes her buy belts made of feathers and wear knee socks with palm trees on them.
I crossed the street to Claudia's house and rang the bell. Claudia answered it again, this time wearing a baggy yellow- and black-checked shirt, black pants, red jazz shoes, and a bracelet that looked like it was made from a telephone cord. Her earrings were dangling jointed skeletons that jumped around when she moved.
Stacey had on a pink sweatshirt with sequins and a large purple parrot on the front; short, tight-fitting jeans with zippers up the outsides of the legs; and pink plastic shoes.
I rembered that Stacey was wearing a matching top and skirt made of gray sweat shirt material with big yellow number tens all over it. Her hair was pinned back with clips shped like rainbows. Little silver whistles were dangling from her ears.
2 Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls:
Today, for instance, I'm wearing purple pants that stop just below my knees and are held up with suspenders, white tight with clocks on them, a purple-plaid shirt with a matching hat, my high-top sneakers, and lobster earrings.
3 The Truth About Stacey:
the dinosaur on my beret, red sneakers covered with beads and glitter, leg warmers covered with footprints, plastic butterflies in my hair. For two week in New York I even wore red lace gloves with no fingertips.
4 Mary Anne Saves the Day:
Just once I'd like to go to school wearing skintight turquoise pants, Stacey's "island" shirt with the flamingos and toucans all over it, and maybe bright red, high-top sneakers. I'd like to create a sensation. (Well, half of me would. The other half would be too shy to want to attract any attention.)
She even has one pair of earrings that consist of a dog for one ear and a bone for the other ear.
5 Dawn and the Impossible Three:
Stacey trotted over to me, looking fabulous as always. She was wearing a simple pink T-shirt under a baggy jumpsuit with big pink and red flowers all over it. Her permed hair bounced over her shoulders. I was wearing blue jean shorts and a white T-shirt that said "Genius Inside". I looked ordinary next to Stacey.
6 Kristy's Big Day:
She was wearing one of her usual outrageous outfits: a black leotard and skintight red pants under a white shirt that was so big it looked like a lab coat. Claudia's a wonderful artist and she had decorated the shirt herself, covering it with designs painted in acrylic. She had pinned her long, black hair back at the sides with red clips.
Stacey’s blonde hair was permed, and what with that, her purple nail polish, and her Swatch accessories, she looked, well, kind of like a thirteen-year-old Madonna.
Claudia had helped me choose a new dress the week before. It was a gigantic white sweater with silver designs woven into it. It was a very un-Kristy-type dress-- and I felt glamorous.
7 Claudia and Mean Janine:
It was a big, loose white shirt with black splotches all over it, and white pants that came to just below my knees. My shoes (and I might point out that I’d had a fight with Mom over permission to buy them) were dainty gold sandals that laced partway up my legs. Then I put on my pink flaming earrings and a pink bracelet that said CLAUDIA in heart shaped beads [both mature and wild]. Finally I braided my hair into four long braids, tied a ribbon around the top of each, and fastened the ends with butterfly clips.
I finished dressing in my favorite art class outfit - black jeans, a giant bright blue T-shirt, and a snake bracelet that I wore above my elbow.
Stacey, wearing a pair of knee-length lime-green shorts, matching green high-topped sneakers, and a large white T-shirt with a gigantic taxicab on the front, was setting up benches at the two picnic tables. Mary Anne and Kristy, much more casual dressers, were each wearing blue jean shorts, running shoes, and T-shirts. Mary Anne’s shirt, though, was pretty, with a scoop neck and lace edging on the sleeves, while Kristy was wearing an old gray thing that had probably once belonged to Sam or Charlie. It said BOHREN’S MOVERS in faded black letters across the back. Dawn, in a surprisingly New York kind of outfit (she usually goes for California casual), was wearing striped pants with suspenders over a red shirt.
8 Boy-Crazy Stacey:
I decided on this new pink shirt I got the last time we went back to New York City to visit friends. Big, bright green and yellow birds were splashed all over it. It was gigantic, so it would be cool. I put it on with a pair of baggy shorts, looped a wide green belt around my middle, and hunted up some silver jewelry—silver bangle bracelets and a pair of silver earrings shaped like bells that actually ring when they dangle back and forth.
(Stacey’s bikini) skimpy (and we’re talking very skimpy) and yellow, with tiny bows at the sides on the bottom part. And if I do say so myself, the top part was filled out pretty nicely.
I put on a white cotton vest over a pink cotton dress and tied a big white bow in my hair so that it flopped over the side of my head. Mary Anne couldn’t find anything of her own that she really liked, so I loaned her my yellow pedalpushers, a yellow and white striped tank top, and an oversized white jacket.
10 Logan Likes Mary Anne!:
In the junior department I tried on a green sweater dress that made me look like a mermaid, and a yellow sweater dress that made me look as big as a house. Then Claudia handed me a full white skirt with the words Paris, Rome, and London, and sketchy pink and blue pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the Tower Bridge, and other stuff scrawled all over it. She matched it up with a pink shirt and a baggy pink sweater. I would never, ever have tried on that skirt, but with the shirt and sweater it looked really cool.
In the shoe department we found white slip-ons with pink and blue edging that matched the pink and blue in the skirt. I'd never have looked twice at those shoes, either, but with the rest of the outfit they were perfect.
Claudia was wearing short, tight-fitting black pants and a big white shirt that said BE-BOP all over it in between pictures of rock and roll dancers. She had fixed a floppy blue bow in her hair. Stacey was wearing a white T-shirt under a hot pink jumpsuit. Dawn and Kristy looked more casual. Dawn was wearing a green and white oversized sweater and stretchy green pants. Kristy was wearing a white turtleneck shirt under a pink sweater with jeans. We just couldn’t seem to get her out of blue jeans.
12
Claudia and the new girl
She was wearing a very pretty pink flowered skirt that was full and so long it touched the tops of her shoes – which I soon realized were not shoes, but sort of hiking boots. Her blouse, loose and lacy, was embroidered with pink flowers, and both her wrists were loaded with silver bangle bracelets. Her hair, which was almost as long as my friend Dawn’s and was dirty blonde, was pulled into a fat braid (which, I might add, was not held in place with a rubber band or anything; it just sort of trailed to an end). But the amazing thing was that because her hair was pulled back, you could see her ears. And she had three pierced earrings in each ear. They were all silver and all dangly, but none matched.
I was wearing a very short pink cotton dress, white tights, and black ballet slippers. I had swept all of my hair way over to one side, where it was held in place with a piece of pink cloth that matched the dress. Only one ear showed, and in it I had put my big palm tree earring.
She was wearing a puffy white blouse, a blue-jean jacket, a long blue-jean skirt, and those hiking boots again. Beaded bracelets circled both wrists, and she’d tied a strip of faded denim around her head, like an Indian headband. Since her hair was loose that day, I couldn’t get a good look at her ears. I wanted to see if she was wearing six earrings again.
She was wearing a long, all-the-way-to-her-ankles dress with three rows of ruffles at the bottom. A strip of black cloth was tied around her head. I couldn’t see her earrings, but she looked … well, all right, I’ll admit it. She looked a little bizarre.
13 Goodbye, Stacey, Goodbye:
I caught sight of her earrings, which were dangly little teddy bears.
On Saturday, I pulled on a pair of blue stretch pants and a white sweat shirt decorated with stars and sequins. "Put on jeans and your gray sweat shirt"Kristy was wearing jeans and a blue sweat shirt.
She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit – a purple-and-white striped body suit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the body suit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple push-down socks anyway. Around her middle was a wide purple belt with a buckle in the shape of a telephone. And on her feet were black ballet slippers.
She was wearing a very short kilt, an oversized red sweater, and yellow socks over red tights. On her head was a red beret with a sparkly initial pin attached to the side.
It was tame, but not dorky – a navy blue minidress with a pink sash, blue tights, and black slippers like Claudia’s.
Kristy was wearing her uniform – jeans, a turtleneck (pale blue), a sweater (blue-and-white striped), and sneakers.
14 Hello, Mallory:
I finally decided on my red jumper that said Mallory across the front, a short-sleeved white blouse, and white tights with little red hearts all over them.
She was wearing faded jeans, sneakers, a pale pink turtleneck, and a dark pink sweater.
…she was wearing a baggy yellow sweater with a silver squiggle pin near the collar, a short skirt made out of sweat-shirt material, yellow tights, and ballet slippers.
She wears kind of casual clothes, like baggy jeans with the cuffs rolled up, shirts with the tails out, and big belts.
Things like short, tight pants with little ballet slippers, or torn T-shirts decorated with sequins, or overalls and high-topped sneakers. And her jewelry! She has a bracelet that looks like a coiled snake, and earrings that are a dog for one ear and a bone for the other, and I don't know what else.
I threw on a pair of jeans, a sweat shirt that said I’D RATHER BE WRITING MY NOVEL, and a pair of sneakers.
17 Mary Anne and the bad luck mystery
The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it- cabbages and squashes and turnips and stuff. Under the blouse was a very short jean skirt, white stockings, green anklets over the stockings, and lavender sneakers, the kind boys usually wear, with a lot of rubber and big laces with the name of the manufactuer in huge letters on the side. Wait, I'm not done. Claudia had pulled the hair on one side of her head back with a yellow clip that looked like a poodle. THe hair on the other side of her head was hanging on her face. Attached to the one ear you could see a plastic earring about the size of a jar lid. Awesome.
18 Stacey's Mistake:
For instance, she'll part (her hair) down the middle, fix one side in three or four braids, and let the other side fall loosely over her shoulder.
"Wear your black outfit. The really cool one," I told her. Claudia has incredible clothes. And I wanted her to wear this outfit that was sleek and black and covered with silver stars and sparkles.
Kristy was wearing a white turtleneck with little red and blue hears all over it, a red sweater, jeans, and sneakers.
Claudia had on the black outfit we'd talked about over the phone so long ago. And she was wearing her hair simply, for once - brushed back from her face and held in place by a white beaded headband.
Dawn had chosen a an oversized peach-colored sweater-dress, lacy white stockings, and black ballet slippers.
I was wearing a short, short yellow dress that flared out just above my hips, white stockings, yellow push-down socks, and these new shoes that my parents hate. It was an interesting outfit, one I'd thought up while we were dressing.
And what was Mary Anne, the fashion plate, wearing? Well, here's a clue. She looked like she'd walked right out of the pages of Little House on the Prairie. I had chosen a bright, big-patterned sweater and a pair of black pants for her. She'd looked at them, shaken her head, replaced them in her suitcase, and put on this other outfit - a ruffly white blouse, a long paisley skirt, and these little brown boots. It was very mature and attractive, but Mary Anne was the only one of my friends who, when dressed up, actually looked like she came from Connecticut.
Laine was beyond chic. She was wearing a short black dress, black stockings and simple black flats. On one wrist was a single silver bangle bracelet. On her dress was one of those silver squiggle pins. Her fluffy brown hair as newly permed and perfectly cut. She looked wonderful - and at least nineteen. My friends were speechless. Claudia looked good, too, but well, maybe only fifteen - tops. Her hair was long and flowing, and her outfit was wild, but not particularly adult.
A lot of fun, though. The shirt from 122 sounds really horrifying!
