Meet a Friend Monday - Kish

Today is my very first Meet a Friend Monday! I'd like to introduce you to Kish of Me, Myself & Style. She was one of my very first Bloggie Friends. She has killer style, is super funny and is an all around cool chick.  Without further ado, I give you . . . Kish!

With back-to-school promos breathing down our necks, and as a teacher and a mom, I'd like to share with y'all my opinion  about something (it's okay if you're not a parent...anyone can benefit from this).

There are two days during every school year when what you look like and what you're wearing matters the most:

1.  The first day of school

2.  Picture day

Going wrong on either of these days could subsequently alter the rest of one's fashion future.

I still remember what this one kid wore for picture day back in first grade.  Most of the girls wore cute dresses and all the guys pretty much wore shorts or jeans, but I remember thinking that this one kid's mom must have really hated them because for class picture day, she sent her kid to school wearing a:

baby blue.  three piece.  suit!

(Go ahead and laugh, because trust me, it was a sight!)

This poor kid was wearing a long-sleeved button-down shirt (in paler shade of baby blue) with matching pants, jacket, AND a vest.

Oh.  AND a matching bow-tie! 

Ahahahahaha!!!!

I mean, who would do that to their kid???

Oh, wait.  I know who.

My mom.  That's who.

Yes.  That kid was me.

And let me mention that every piece of that outfit, including the button-down shirt, was hand-sewn.  Yeah, that means that this outfit was intentionally made.  For me.  A girl.

I wanted to wear a dress.  I cried, begged, pleaded, and even boycotted to not have to wear that 3-piece suit.  But my mom was the seamstress, I was her little girl (or so I thought), and she just wanted me to be set apart from everyone else.  I remember her saying something along the lines of, "No one else will be wearing anything like you are." (Duh! Really?!  I wonder why?)

Do you know how embarrassing it is on class picture day to field questions of, "Why are you wearing that?" and to feel like you single-handedly increased the count, by one, of boys in your class?  And this was a group photo...so if I still have my picture, how many other copies are still floating around out there?

Sigh.  Okay, let me move on because twenty-seven years later, I'm still embarrassed mortified. 

So!  Today's special feature for my blogger buddy Tiffany's blog is Nobody Wants to Be the 3-Piece Suit.  The 3-Piece Suit stands for any hideously disgusting outfit that any of us has had to wear to school (or anywhere else, if school doesn't apply).  Whether it was a first day of school outfit, a picture day outfit, or just a regular day outfit...it doesn't matter. 

So, come one, come all.  Let us commiserate and maybe laugh together as we reminisce on those days past of bad style.  Please! Share with us your story and/or details of your "3-Piece Suit".

It's okay.  No one's gonna judge you here.

Nor will we be taking a group photo.

Thanks for reading and participating!!!

p.s.  For your viewing pleasure (just don't laugh too hard please), I'm going to be brave and share this with you.  It's hard to see the 3-Piece Suit, so just skim past all the little girls wearing dresses and look for the one girl who is wearing a bow-tie.

Okay, now that you've laughed yourself into a coma (is that even possible?), run right over to her blog and check out the super cute looks she puts together (no 3-piece suits!) and the funny stories she shares. I love her!