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Fashion I Refused To Throw Away Is Back In Style
And people, it still fits.
I keep stuff.
As a child, I hung out with my grandmother who survived the 1918 flu pandemic, the Bread and Roses Strike, two World Wars, the Depression, and maybe more impressive given those circumstances — Prohibition. I learned keeping things was a survival skill. If you saved stuff, you, or someone you loved, had it when they needed it.
Usually I keep items with a direct connection to family. But I do have some clothing and accessories of my own that are older than this century, because I suspected they would eventually be back in style.
Realistically, though, even if some does trend back into favor, and still fits, I will likely not be comfortable wearing it. My personal physical landscape has adjusted since I bought my skort, bike shorts, and short-sleeved-cropped-tank sweater. They may be in style, but I shall not be wearing them again.
Besides some blazers that I still sport, the clothes I saved are mostly for nostalgia sake, like my high school uniform skirt. Although if I could fit in it, it would make a great Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time” Halloween costume. Except I’d really be a 51-year-old with a huge elastic through the skirt button hole…
