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May 26, 2006
dress to impress
Today I'm reading Kristy and the Baby Parade, which I remember as being one of my least favorite BSC books ever. And so far, that memory seems warranted. It's boring. I've been trying to speed-read through it (although to be honest, the next book, Mary Anne Misses Logan, isn't exactly a favorite of mine either) but it feels like it's taking forever.
But I just read something that made it all worth it.
See, one of my favorite elements of the BSC books was always when they described Claudia's clothing. I never noticed as a kid that they said things like "on anyone else, that would look stupid, but on Claudia, it looked great." All I knew was that Claudia was COOL and ARTISTIC and dressed WILDLY. And as I've been rereading these books, I've been cracking up at all the clothes and wondering why I thought they were so cool.
This book, though, has my favorite outfit in it. My VERY favorite. I remember reading about it and trying to recreate it and drawing it and loving it to death. So what was this magical outfit?
An oversized red button-down shirt with big black buttons, green leggings with white tie-dyed streaks (I always pictured those ribbed leggings that were really popular in the late 80s, for some reason--green with white stripes that looked like rings around her legs. I think I knew someone with pants like that.), and earrings that looked like watermelon slices. Because she was a WATERMELON.
How hot is that?
Posted to Books & Nostalgia at May 26, 2006 11:30 AM
Comments
Ahhh, but I LOVED descriptions of Claudia's clothing, plus all the requisite first-few-pages descriptions of the girls and their personalities, the makeup of the Club, etc. Such wonderful familiarity!!!!
I really loved all the neat descriptions of Mary Anne's cleanliness... Something in one of the books about how she opened her locker to reveal freshly sharpened pencils, looseleaf paper, a new notebook, and a poster of her idol, Cam Geary (LOL!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I remember that name! Right off the top of my head!!!). But then she took her gum out of her mouth and split it into four parts to stick on the back of the poster, and ergo on the locker. In my opinion, that wasn't so cool. LOL.
Posted by: Emerge at May 26, 2006 02:02 PM