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Omg the second page. I still feel the fucking chewed up bottoms of my jeans, dragging behind me 😭

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The bottoms of my jeans- forever gross

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Help I’m having war flashbacks

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Oh god...I went through so many of these! The skinny scalf, the low rise bootleg jeans 😬 my boobs popping out of a figure hugging waistcoat (I once wore only this with nothing underneath - trying to be 'sexy' with my pierced belly button on show). I ritually wore a trilby hat too. Realising in hindsight that I really just wanted the waistcoat & hat because I wanted to be a dapper gentleman. But the boobs & belly button got people to buy me drinks 🤷

Thank you again 🙏

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dear ND,

does ND stand for "Nice! Delightful!" because that's what i think this post is

thank you for sharing!

myq

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whyyyyyy do pants gap in the back so baddddd

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You know what, I'm treating myself to some clothes I've been wanting to get for a while.

Reading this reminded me I should appreciate that I don't have to deal with buying from the girls section during the early 2000s anymore.

I do deserve a cool racing jacket after wearing lycra t-shirts and low rise tight jeans for years. It's called reparations, baby ✨

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Oh, god, I'm having visceral flashbacks of desperately trying not to flash my buttcrack every time I did anything but stand up perfectly straight. The chewed-out, heel-shaped holes in the bottoms of my jeans bemoaning the over-abundance of fabric in an inconvenient place, fabric that could have been better used to add at least another inch to that 3-inch zipper at the top. Muffin-top and butt-top galore.

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oh no this is making me flashback to the unfortunate term "whale tail"

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I didn't even have a whale tail since I went to a VERY conservative school--I had Granny-Panty-Band Bunch.

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Did you also attempt to purposely tan shapes onto your skin? I'm borderline ginger and just burned, peeled, and then went back to shades a la ghost around the shapes instead.

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EVERYTHING WITH THE JEANS. THE PULLING THE RIDIC HIP-HUGGING SHIRT DOWN. THE ICONIC BIRDS AND TREES SHIRT. And I literally had that same belt which only did an okay-ish job keeping my pants up. Yup. Being an awkward ‘00s teen feels

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agh this is relatable and scary and I wore so many of these x) hope the healing kicks in soon for all of us ♡

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Omg Nate never have I seen something I so relate to. I “developed” VERY early and none of the clothes ever looked right on me. A terrible time to be a teen.

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The giant sunglasses at the end @u@

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Ok I adore cornflakes

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Oh. Oh my. Past you made some...decisions, didn't they.

That said, the second to last outfit (the sailor dress/top with pants) looks adorb.

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The last one with the giant sunglasses cracks me up so much. <3

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i have an unorthodox amount of oversized sunglasses because they are literally the only fashion item that makes me feel good about myself so i feel the smile on this face so hard 😆

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You sure are bringing back memories of some of my own choices

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I feel this in my soulllll! Especially the "where do i stuff these giant bitties so that they draw the least amount of attention but also I don't look like a sack of potatoes"

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