Penny For Your Thoughts!: Part Four
Well, I sit here again in pain, a bird with a wounded wing. I wish I could say that I hurt myself in a way I was proud of, like tire-flipping, or power-lifting, or tumbling, or rock climbing.
But I cannot tell a lie.
My injury came as if in a dream; while I slept.
Which just astonishes me. I feel like my body should know how to do that by now, sleep peacefully, without doing harm. After all, it’s had so much practice!
But alas. One more thing I’ve yet to master.
My point is that I just don’t feel up to dressing up Dottie tonight.
So I thought that perhaps I could just ask your opinion on a matter that’s been troubling me now for quite some time.
Specifically, what is the deal with overalls? Can I pull them off? Can anyone pull them off?
There was surely a time in my life when I loved almost nothing in life as much as an overall.
I had so many versions! Acid washed. Shorts. Skirts. Fun colors.
I wore them so many ways! Both sides up. One side dangling. Both sides down.
Even, on occasion, acid washed, shorts, and both sides down, at once! Like so:
TBT
It was also 1991.
So, although overalls have not quite made the jump into mainstream, every day fashion like leggings have, I still registered quite a lot of surprise when I noticed celebrities attempting to pull them off.
Here’s a fun game! Can you distinguish the 1990’s overalls from the 2010’s overalls? It’s so hard!
Nearly impossible, right??
Well. After Beiber, I was totally ready to write overalls off as comeback I would never, ever welcome, like shoulder pads, or bicycle shorts.
But then some of my friends wore some truly adorable versions.
And some fashionistas showed me that it is possible to look rather chic while wearing them, like so:
And then I became very confused.
But then it hit me.
“Maybe they are good!” I told my completely enthralled husband. “But only if you are in your twenties or under!”
He was skeptical. “I think that you need to be able to pass for an actual teenager.”
Hmm. A valid thought.
Can you help me solve this age-old dilemma once and for all?
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- Tagged: Fashion Debate, Fashionistas, Overalls, TBT, The '90's
I Am What I Wore 
I’ve been wondering about this for a while now, and it seems to me they can be pulled off, but only in select circumstances.