19 Dec
Whenever I feel like I can’t find my funny, all I have to do is pull out an old family photograph…
And with just one glance, my funny is back.
Obviously, everything about my brother is all wrong – but this picture has even bigger issues.
That would be 6-year-old me, sporting an awesome mullet. (Not to mention my rockin’ sunglasses.)
But I think my mom’s mullet is even better than mine:
It’s like a fancy mullet. With wings. Or do you call those feathers?
Even better than my mom’s mullet, are my mom’s pants:
Yup – these are your ultimate mom jeans. High waisted, slightly stonewashed, WITH pleats! I wish I had a pair of my own.
But the very best part of this picture, HAS to be my Aunt Lura getting out of her car in the background.
Her hair makes me laugh every single time I see it. Isn’t it so amazing?
Do you love it as much as I do?
What’s your favorite part of this picture?
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It’s really a toss up. I am loving your mom’s jeans. She was a very cool mother. Mine wouldn’t wear real jeans. I desperately wanted her to. She wore her jeans from the stylin’ Blair catalog.
But I also love the very unmade bed feeling of everyone in this picture. What was it about the 80s/90s that everyone just looked so lumpy and thrown together? I’m so horrified at some of the pictures I find from us growing up. We were such a mess! I have this outrageous picture that I should post some day. It’s from an Easter when we all wore flowered dresses. And someone took the picture from a seated position, so we look like looming giants in our ridiculous flowered dresses. It’s so horrid.
I also love the look your brother is sporting. It reminds me of Rusty in the National Lampoon movies. Particularly the European trip.
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Our mom’s were cut from the very same cloth. The Hair, the pants, the cardigan that is just not quite properly fitting over a dressy plaid shirt. Love it!
This may be the original photo bomb, compliments of Aunt Lura.
My facorite part is I had that very same hairdo as you and still cringe every time I see pictures of myself from that part of my childhood, lol!! Awesome really and really do have tons of pictures somewhere in my parents home that could rival this
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Oh my sweet baby Jesus, I love every.single.thing about this picture. I think I totally need your sunglasses complete with cord. Sweet.
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My favorite part would be your brother. He looks like Rusty from the National Lampoon’s European Vacation. ( =
That’ so awesome! Thanks for making me laugh. Gotta love those pics from the 70s and 80s. I mean, what were we all thinking back then? It’s like nobody had mirrors—or friends to tell us we looked like idiots.
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Okay – wait a minute. My cardigan doesn’t fit? And that’s not a mullet I am wearing it’s my Farah Fawcett look – surely that’s obvious. Also, pleated jeans were/are perfect for thigh room. Very stylish AND comfortable. You said you wanted a pair Anna? Well you are in luck! I happened to still have a pair or two in case they come back. Glad I got your name for Christmas
IDK….maybe you’re Aunt in the background. That’s just an awesome caught in the moment shot. Perfectly framed. There’s a whole other story there too. Like, why didn’t the person taking the picture wait for Auntie to get out of the (what I’m assuming is a) staionwagon? Where were the 4 or 5 of you off too? Possibly a football game? Why is Mom and Auntie wearing the same color? Rival football teams? How did you Mom get her sweater to stay together without a button? Metal clip, faux button or missing one ? Hmmmm… there’s more funny in this photo for sure. Holly
Thanks for sharing! This is way too precious to keep this one under wraps!!
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I vote for your Mom because I am quite certain I looked exactly like her on most weekends back in the good old comfortable days!! Certainly not a mullet – I had the Farrah cut too, didn’t we all??? Now I want to dig through my photo boxes and look for my old photos and find mine like this. I also remember wearing pink high tops with my outfit like this.
Personally, I like the big-ass sunglasses. And I think your mom is sporting “feathered” hair.
There is no way I could pick one thing that was my favorite from this picture!
I’ll bet you a million dollars your mom is wearing a bra. There are far too many pictures of my mom from the eighties wearing a cotton tank top and NO BRA.
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