The epitome of cool ...
Tara at Sticky Fingers has got all scanner happy … again … and keeps goading me into finding photos that I too can scan. She’s come up with the Young At Heart Photo Album Tag.
This tag is aiming to create a giant photo album of photos across the ether. But not baby/toddler/youth photos of your children – these photos are of YOU.
So this is my photo. I was 10 years old and visiting my Grandparents in Edinburgh.
My Granddad, an avid photographer, wanted to take some shots of me on my skateboard. I rolled everywhere on my skateboard and from the looks of it I was growing out a perm. Every so often Crazy Nan would take me to the hairdressers and treat me to a perm. Yes … I said treat.
I thought I looked fab. I wore stonewashed jeans with patches pulled up in a Simon Cowell stylee. Just to make sure they didn’t fall down I wore a tight belt and as a secondary measure some braces.
The cardigan I have no recollection of, in fact it looks like it may have belonged to my sister.
To top off my look I wore a George Michael T-shirt, tucked in. I knew all the words to the Faith album … and probably still do.
Not much has changed, I’m still THAT cool.
Mellow Yellow
This tag has an air of mystery about it. You have to guess who I’m tagging . . .
NOTE: Make sure you include the name ‘Young at Heart Photo Album’ in your title and post so your entry is easy to find in Google. Tara will be looking out for you …
I’ve already done it behind the scenes and she’s all ready to go. And she’s primed her tagee etc. See if you can guess who it is before you click through to find out who our mellow yellow blogger is . . .
11 Comments on "1989 – The Year of the Sullen Face, George M and the Perm"
I really love thees so clover posts. I will tell my friend George you are a big fan. He has just popped out, don’t think he was going far.
She still has those jeans, no seriously – they are now shorts :/ The hair…I like it! Let’s get it back for Gramps 60th on Sat.
You *do* look cool. And at least you could grow out your perm. I was asked for years if I had one when it was no longer fashionable to have long curly hair. Thankfully the world invented GHDs.
PS I would have been about 5 in 1989.
#bigfatlie
I never had jeans with patches or a GM tshirt, you look completely fabulous. And as for the skateboard, well, my five year old will be very jealous. I wonder who is wearing that delightful yellow outfit?
stone washed jeans and permed hair, eee, them were the days, eh?
Only in my dreams was I ever that cool x
1989, wht an amazing year, but I was 16 and just experiencing life!
What a great picture of you. Mich x
Wow, you look soooo cool.
I too loved George Michael (still do), unfortunately I didn’t have the t-shirt
I love the belt and braces, I had a white set of braces and the clippy bits were feet shaped! Yes, I too was very cool…..
DUDE! You are too cool! I skateboarded (badly) as a kid but sadly have no photographic evidence.
I know all the words to the Faith album too. And stone wash jeans were SO cool. Really. They were.
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