What's the strangest thing you've ever seen someone wearing? What's the strangest thing you've worn? I guess Halloween costumes count, but I'd like to see everyday outfits as well. :)

-- Piper (piperdane@yahoo.com), March 21, 2000

Answers

Um...confessional time.

I wore french rolled jeans. (I'm still embarrassed about this.) I actually memorialized it with a picture. I wore two pairs of socks at a time, folding them up and down so that you could see both colours. And the outer sock on each foot was a different colour.

Ah, the joys of growing up in the 80s....
-Meghan

-- Meghan (faeriebaby@hotmail.com), March 21, 2000.

I was walking on the sidewalk, down town one summer day. I was gradually catching up with this woman who was to say the least two axe handles broad. She was dressed in super tight denim jeans and a fabulous fancy blouse, dripping with jewels, wearing nylons (I guess) and ecru shoes with at least five inch heels. Well it sure looked weird to me. There were two times in my life one in my teens and once in my forties that I coustumed as a woman to go to a costume party. I had help from my girl cousin who dressed as a guy went with me. I wore some of her clothes and jewelry. Before we left I stood in front of her full length mirror laughed my self almost sick. In my forties there was a Sadie Hawkin's Day costume dance, and my wife and a neighbor lady decked me out. My outer clothes were the neighbor's which the people at the dance wouldn't recognize. I still hadn't learned how to walk in high heels, but was given uproarious lessons by them which included the hip wiggle. There is a picture in existence of all of us up on the stage for prize judgement. The huge laugh was the massive man with a full black beard dressed up as Sadie Hawkins. He got the booby Prize. I wasn't in the line up of prize winners. Every time my wife brings out the picture to show someone I will say, "I was under the influence at that time - - - the influence of my wife.

-- Denver doug (ionoi@webtv.net), March 22, 2000.

I only wore this one time because I had to. My grandma once sent me an outfit for my birthday. Since it was so close to thanksgiving it had a thanksgiving theme to it. The sweatshirt had a huge quilted turkey attatched to it. It wrapped around the side of the sweatshirt so that the tail was in the back. And to top it all off it came with a lovely matching cornacopia(sp?)tie. My grandma is weird.

Rachel

-- Rachel (rachel@seventhirteen.com), March 30, 2000.