I love kids and regret I never had my own. I will doxx myself here because I know at least one of my sisters reads this site.

My freshman year of high school my mother bought me a winter coat that was at least 3 sizes t0o big and for old ladies so it would last all 4 years of school. OMG it was horrible. My best friend wouldn’t walk to the bus with me.  My first day wearing it winter of freshman year the BUS DRIVER made fun of me. I threw it…

I know there are older men who read this site. Hands up if you remember the brief early-80s craze for bizarre Japanese-ish sleeveless shirts with things like the Rising Sun image and a big kanji character or two on them. God knows what the kanji said; probably something incredibly offensive.

I was a very svelte teenage boy and my mother incorrectly assumed I would grow into clothes; I incorrectly would believe her when asking what size dress shirts I should be buying, etc. Until I was 22, I wore Geoffrey Beene dress shorts from Macy’s and Dockers in clothing I was swimming in. And I thought I looked like…

From the age of 14 to roughly 19/20, I had my goth phase. At the time a standard outfit would be black top, usually with a skull on, black skirt, and boots. Depending on the top, there would sometimes be a corset over the top as well. However the very worst outfit I have put put on my meatsack was black converse, pink…

I was a chubby kid, and my mom refused to buy me jeans because I was too ‘chunky’. Jeans existed in my size, but Mom insisted on buying me polyester pants, flared at the bottom, (It was the 70's) and light blue. Always light blue - maybe it was the only colour the local store stocked? Maybe my mom had a big crate of…

Was this in the early-mid 80s? Because I (a guy) had a sweater that went from bright yellow around the neck and got darker and moved into orange and then red and then reddish-brown. I loved it. I must have looked like a 6' 4" walking Tequila Sunrise.

I too am thoroughly confused by the blazer in hindsight.

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS.

When I was in middle school, around 2006, nearly all of my friends were guys. So I was very well acquainted with the “cool” teen fashions of the day....for boys.

I was of the JNCO generation. I used to wear these absolutely massive JNCO jeans with burgundy swirly panels down the sides. Add to that black platform sandals and a white tank top and a uh....black blazer for some reason with a lace skinny scarf that I would tie into a bow at the back of my neck.

In middle school, I had a rocking pair of jeans that got darker as you got closer to the foot with embroidered butterflies. I would pair this with a blue turtleneck that went from light blue to darker blue as you went upwards and down the arms. I looked like color saturation bar.

The first day of my freshman year of high school in 1992 Seattle, I wore what I thought was the absolute epitome of Alternative Cool: a black 60s-style tank dress with different colored gigantic polka dots on it; underneath were white “stretch pants” (what are now called leggings) with giant lime green polka dots; and…

My son proudly told me once, “Mommy, you wear clothes other people think of as costumes!”

Excuse you I have always been a fashion ICON

In my youth, I became preoccupied with the dilemma of keeping my socks up under lady trousers. (It was the late 80’s when this was a thing.)

I thought of another bad one! I used to wear short sleeved button up paisley shirts unbuttoned over t-shirts and tank tops.

Oh, so many! An incomplete list:

There aren’t many smart phones that are smaller. The last not giant iPhone was the 5se, and it was discontinued with the new line of iPhones coming out. And it’s hard to find non-smart phones anymore.

And really?  Why would wish ‘real’ problems on people?  That’s just mean spirited.

New phones are definitely too big.  The reason I bought an iPhone instead of a Samsung last time was that the Samsung phone are too big.  If iPhone is going to be gigantic, I might as well buy a Samsung or other Android.  I want a phone that I can fit into my purse or even a pocket.