It doesn't even have to be "fashion" which causes the young people to cringe
when they grow up. We have copious shots in the family album of our eldest son
at an age when he'd decided that his ears stuck out too far. So he grew his
shock of really blonde hair long to "hide" them. Of course, all that happened
was the hair stuck out over the ears, drew attention to them, and made them
look even bigger!!
*Now* (when he's 35!) I'm asked: "why didn't you make me get my haircut?"
What? *Making* Philip do anything at the age of 14 or 15 was near-nigh
impossible....oh! the selective "memory loss" of an adult child is wonderful -
now I find he's under the delusion that he was always sweetly reasonable and
co-operative!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, Sep 8, 2003,
at 00:40 US/Eastern, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
>
> > What I always say is, "Take lots of pictures."
> >
> > :D
> >
> > In 20 years, whatever the style today, they'll be groaning, "I can't
> > BELIEVE you let me dress that way!"
>
> My Mother *tried* her best, but "let me" was never a part of my
> vocabulary... <g>
>
> There's a photo of me, snapped by some amateur U-campus photographer
> (and I hope he rots in h... <g>) in the winter of '69... A really
> *big* fur hat (de rigeur at that moment in Poland), a really
> tightly-fitting winter coat (ditto) which ended about 6" above the knee
> (but still covered the skirt, if you please <g>), a pair of really high
> boots ("spoils" of the '68 UK summer), and a really fierce scowl on my
> face (no wonder; "below freezing" covers a multitude of temperatures
> <g>). The photo was displayed -- for full 4 weeks! -- near the main
> entrance to the U, in the "U-news", 50m-long, glassed-in show-case.
> That the photographer had no clue as to my identity (the caption was:
> "a focused student, on her way to class") and that it was but a small
> part of the "news" (hopefully, not many people eve noticed it) was a
> mercy... :)
>
> > The pictures will also be great for showing to their children.
>
> I retrieved the photo as soon as the display changed... Luckily for the
> photographer, I never disovered *his* identity, either... But I hid it
> from *everyone* -- my parents, my DH, my son -- none of them ever saw
> it. Didn't throw it away, though; like the "messed up" samples of
> laces, it reminds *me* of past mistakes, hopefully never to be
> repeated. It also teaches me humility, and forbearance towards other
> "young ones", equally misguided in their pursuit of "fitting"...
> -----
> Tamara P Duvall
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Lexington, Virginia, USA
> Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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