Where will you be in ten years?
May 25, 2010 at 7:42 am | Posted in Life and Living | 6 CommentsTags: clothing, dress, high school, yearbook
Ah yes, the question asked of every high school senior since what seems like the beginning of time. Where will you be in ten years? A page out of my yearbook takes a stab at it for every graduating senior. It’s actually more like a jab since most of the answers are meant to be funny like the guy who will be a Chippendales dancer in Vegas, or kind of mean like the girl who discovers she’s not where it’s at. Mine too was sort of a personal jab that I guess might offend some people, but it takes a lot to offend me which I think is a pretty well known fact. It also helps that I happen to have an idea of just who may have written the one for me. This guy and I had this sort of kindergarten crush relationship all throughout school where he would try to say mean things to me but I never would get offended, but then he’d say something nice a second later. This is just a reminder of that interesting piece in my history.
Anyways, back to what it said. Ready? Dana stops shopping in the Kiddie dept. That’s it. To be fair, when I was in high school baby tees were popular. I didn’t dress any differently than anyone else. It just so happens I am a small person, and I haven’t grown since high school, but the point has been taken.
So how accurate is this statement? Well, I still shop in the juniors’ section of department stores and such, but I have added some more sophisticated stores to my list. I was given some advice at my last job regarding this topic. My old boss was a little girl like me, and since we were consultants, we needed to look worth the money. Being little is a disadvantage when it comes to trying to look older than you are. Luckily, I’m back in mainstream non-profit where the dress codes are a little more lax. With that said, I have tried to at least look my age, and on the rare occasion that I need to look more sophisticated, I am more prepared to do that.
I’m not gonna lie. I still have some tee shirts from when I was a kid. Would you believe that my elementary school tee shirt still fits me? Sure it fits differently, but it still looks fine for a weekend hang around the house shirt.
It’s still one more year until this ten year mark, but I don’t know how much will change in that one year. I think that I dress appropriately for my age though. I no longer wear shirts that show my stomach and most of my clothes are not as tight or short as they used to be.
So I guess I have started to stop shopping in the kiddie department. Good prediction!
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