Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
How Dysfunctional Clothes Mess With Comfort, Confidence, And Childhood Memories
This week on the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast: Static shocks, zipper scars, and a bell-bottom bike crash. We unpack the fashion fails that shaped our childhoods and why some clothes still sabotage comfort and confidence. Listen now and tell us: which outfit haunts your memories?
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now, here are your hosts, Chrissy and Kerry.
SPEAKER_04:Hey junkies, I'm Kiri. And I'm Chrissy. Welcome back to another great episode of Dysfunction Junkies.
CHRISY:Yeah, welcome back.
SPEAKER_04:So Chrissy's been on a roll lately picking show topics for us.
CHRISY:I don't know about that, but I think I find it very funny. And dysfunctional.
SPEAKER_04:This definitely can be dysfunctional, and at least I don't think we're going to go down any very dark places on this one. But the episode's early. Well never, we'll find out. Do you ever have clothes that just didn't feel right? Dysfunctional clothes. That's the show note topic for today.
CHRISY:If you haven't already figured out that I'm going to make excuses for everything bad I do and why I act the way I do, you know I'm going to blame it on my articles of clothing. Sometimes they're just too damn dysfunctional.
SPEAKER_04:I think every woman has found that this is a problem. I mean, there's not one of us that hasn't gone through our closet trying to find something to wear at one point and nothing fit right, nothing we were happy with, and all the clothes end up on the floor, on the bed everywhere else. And it's just big it's the clothes' fault. It's their fault. The clothes are dysfunctional.
CHRISY:They probably didn't know that this was the appropriate way to coin the understanding of what was happening.
SPEAKER_04:And how is it that clothes can feel so right and feel so good one day, and the next day you just want to throw them out in the garbage? So they don't fit. There's dysfunction. There's dysfunction. These clothes that have nothing to do with anything but and it starts all the way from our childhood. Sure. Especially those of us that grew up in the 70s. Yes. When you wrote this in the notes, I instantly my skin crawled. Of course. You know what I'm talking about.
CHRISY:The the weird fabric, uh nylon, maybe polyester. I don't know. Polyester usually, for some reason I seem to recall polyester because it's no wrinkle cell uh option there. That's what really promoted that in the 70s. It wouldn't wrinkle. You could just stick it in a ball and throw it in your suitcase and go.
SPEAKER_04:But this is usually cold. Very cold. No heat can no heat retaining on this at all. I I kind of remember it as like a brillo pad. It felt like wearing a brillo pad.
CHRISY:Yeah, like rayon and whatever the heck else they did.
SPEAKER_04:And they would snag if you had dry skin, you know, or calassy hands, they would snag on your hands. Or on your feet if the footy ones, your dry feet. Your dry feet, you would feel you would hear it snagging.
CHRISY:The feel of it was well. Yes. Those pajamas that we used to wear, and I guess that kids maybe still wear them to some level, but I don't think they make this fabric no more. I think it was a fire hazard. Oh, probably was.
SPEAKER_04:I I think if I think if it got on fire, it just melted on you. I I don't even think yeah, it was bad.
SPEAKER_02:You were going up pretty quick.
CHRISY:They had this material that was awful. And you were a fire hazard, and nobody wanted to be around you, especially if they were smoking because they weren't sure if you were gonna like burn quickly. They were like this really awful material, static y. Yes, very much. You were constantly electrocuting yourself, touching anything and anyone. You electrocuted each other, and it was this hurt. If you remember that hardcore, I remember laying in bed as a kid, and you would roll over, and then you would lay and you would shuffle your feet, and you would put on your own light show because it was dark in the room and you would shuffle your feet, and it would be it was like strobe lights everywhere. It was like uh you were waiting for the live uh band to come out on stage, you know? I mean it was crazy. But my mother would do this thing, and she was trying to do me a favor, but then there was just a downside to it. The upside was you got rid of the uncomfortable feeling that it had on your feet. So these pajamas, these like onesie pajamas. Yes. And remember, they had the most large, uncomfortable zipper that would go from the foot to the neck. Yes. I remember having one thing, it was like a yellow pajama. I don't remember what the theme was, if it was Sesame Street or whatever, and it would go that far, and it was this big, heavy red zipper. And I remember the zipper was really large. Yes. And you know how sometimes now they have where the zippers you can tuck them under like a little piece of something so that it doesn't stab you. Right. No, they just didn't exist. No. So you could have rolled one way and it was if it was pointing up at you, it like jabbed you in your neck or your teeth, or you know, and then you probably sucked on it as a little kid because you had like this oral thing going on, like and it had lead in it, probably. Everybody's worried about you eating the paint chips. Yeah, they didn't give a shit if you were sucking on this lead zipper. But then you would cut, my mother would cut the feet off the bottom, which I could say is yes, mom, thank you, because that hard plasticky was supposed to grip you to the floor. Didn't it? And that would wear out eventually, so then you were sliding anyhow. And then the seam of the pajama uh on the footy part of it went right across your toes, and it was horrible, and you would totally totally constantly be trying to adjust it so it didn't like hit you at that weird spot. So, like right under the fingernail, the toenail line, you'd sort of try to put that crease in there. It never stayed. So then your mother cuts off the feet, and now you look like a hobo, like you've been riding a tramp steamer somewhere because you've got like these, you've got like this jaggy pants on that look out of Huck Finn or something. I don't know what the hell it is because she couldn't even cut them straight, right? Because like the material didn't cut right. It was just you're giving her a lot of credit. I don't think she cut them. There was a way to stay somewhere. I would have one leg closer to my knee, the other one is still down by my ankle. I look like a total mess, you know? So yeah, I mean, clothes when you have to reconfigure them, that's dysfunction. I mean, you bought something, yeah. Maybe just don't buy it, but I don't think we had too many options.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's not like they came in a footless and a footed option. No, no, but I do remember, oh God, just thinking about it.
CHRISY:The nightgowns, too. As you got a little older, you wore the nightgowns. Again, static. They just and then they suck to your body when you're going through that awkward teen phase where you're lumpy in all the weird places because you're changing your body. You would have this thing clinging to you, just pointing out every unfortunate fact about yourself.
SPEAKER_04:In in the middle of the night, if you rolled over, it was all sticky. So then it would stick to the sheets and you would roll over, and then you'd be like You're lucky you didn't strangle you. Yeah, exactly. Right. Because and then you had to like yank it over, and then it would stick to the comforter. Oh yeah. There was a what about the elastic bands around the arm?
CHRISY:Oh yeah, you'd wake up with like circular they wanted you to look so like classy, so they would like taper it where it was like snug around your wrist.
SPEAKER_04:Right, but if the tongue was too high and then it was too tight, and then you'd wake up with a big input. Oh, and your hand fell asleep. Your hand fell asleep. Oh, yeah.
CHRISY:It was yeah, oh my god. I remember all of this stuff. I know. This is tragic. It is tragic, and it's really giving us like PTSD. The other thing from the 70s was I know, like you had a lot of people who would make their own clothes. Yes. And uh the crocheting and knitting thing was a big thing. Oh yeah. So you would uh sometimes uh be sporting a shirt. I think it had like something that was sort of almost a like a vest. Yes, but it looked like an Afghan blanket. It was the worst, ugliest piece of clothing. But you know, you're like, yeah, look at that. Oh, you homemade clothes. How who did that for you? It's lovely, and you're like, you know, but then you're like, oh yeah, and so and so isn't beautiful, yeah. That didn't feel good because they used the yarn, it was like scratchy, it was not nylon-ish kind of same material with the nightmare.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, and then I had this.
CHRISY:I was trying to tell you about this, and it was so funny and tragic all at the same time because we wore bell bottoms and I was on uh the bike with my cousin, probably riding on it when you shouldn't be. It was not meant for two people. Oh, okay. Uh, she probably sort of stuck me on the back of the seat, which was only meant for one person, and she may have been standing up and riding while I was on the seat and she was trying to take me from point A to B. We were at somebody she knew down the street from her house, and we were trying to get back to her house. And because I wasn't peddling, I was near the back tires. Uh-oh. My leg got sucked into the back tire and completely tangled into the tire because my bell bottom pants was just floating there waiting to get pulled in and totally tangled. And I remember the bike went down because the movement stopped, and my leg is all completely like twisted into this bike tire, and I'm like screaming because I was like probably four or five years old, and I couldn't get my foot out. And my cousin, this is where I learned it because I did this to Natalie when she her fingernail fell off. You you basically run away from the the scene, right? Yeah, the total like energy that is not good. And I remember her taking off to go find help. Oh, and I was laying on the side.
SPEAKER_04:Oh my god, with your horrible bell bottom foot stuck in there. I look like I have been eaten by this wife.
CHRISY:My foot was still stuck in the four years old? Four or five, yeah. I was left probably a block away from wherever the house was. I'm not exactly sure when she finally came back.
unknown:Nobody helped me.
CHRISY:Chrissy. Just laying there waiting for somebody to release me and help me get back and get my dignity back somewhere. Do you remember at all who saved you? Who did untangle you? No, she might have gone back and got like uh a soda and came back. And she's like, Oh, you didn't get free. I'm like, oh maybe she felt she had to think about it. She had to clear her head because it was traumatic. And uh she went home and and gathered herself and grabbed a drink and uh came back for me and was able to help me. So no, I don't remember any adult finally showing up. This is not how things were done. No, it just wasn't. So any other 70s nightmare clothes stories? Because we can move right on to the next decade of uh clothing oopsies.
SPEAKER_04:Let's see, 70s clothing. I don't think I have anything.
CHRISY:Things we were told to wear that we were supposed to look good and that we were. I know my sister, uh, because she was real artsy. Yeah, is she had the damn bedazzler thing.
SPEAKER_04:Oh. Where you overdo it with junky. Yeah. We didn't have that.
CHRISY:Whatever the hell they were.
SPEAKER_04:Most of my clothes were hand-me-down. So I was probably wearing still the 70s clothes in the 80s because you know that was hand-made down.
CHRISY:So there's a period of time when you go from one decade to the next where this is still acceptable. Yes. It's a transition period. So you do drag some of the hide hideous clothing from one decade into the next. Exactly.
SPEAKER_04:But no, I do very much remember some of those. Yeah, the the this the material on that one. That that strikes me the most. So move on to the 80s. What was bad about the 80s?
CHRISY:Did you just ask? Well, the jeans, uh, we went from bell bottoms to the jeans that were just skinny jeans. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think we call we call them that now. I don't remember us saying those were just your jeans. Jean jeans. I remember having jeans in general, especially like by the time the mid-80s kind of rolled around, being at that awkward junior high age. I remember we had jeans that were like, well, the acid wash for one thing that came along in the mid to late 80s. I remember having jeans that were two different colors. But when I say that, the front was like a blue jean material, the back was like a gray jean.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah. So just awful. Here's my thing, and this is more modern time jeans, and it it still bothers me to this day. I hate the fact that the blue jean material of back in the day, actual blue jean material, you can't find women's jeans in that anymore. It's now all the stretchy jeans. Where men can buy blue jeans that it's still the heavy-duty blue jean material. You like that. I want the old texture blue jean. I hate this new blue jean material that's stretchy. I hate it. It's so it doesn't feel right to me. And it is thin. It is thin. I like that that.
CHRISY:If you I don't like that old school.
SPEAKER_04:If you have a little bit of you don't have the thigh gap, okay, then you're wearing out the inside of the thigh material, it's gonna give way and you're gonna have holes. You that speaks volumes about your activity level versus mine.
CHRISY:Because I just don't venture too many places, which would require movement.
SPEAKER_04:And so, yeah, I can't tell you how many pairs of jeans that that's the first thing that goes is in the uh the inner thigh area, it will quickly give way from riding, you know, riding in the saddle, from not having a thigh gap, and you've got some friction going on there. So I hate it. I want the good old and I have a hard time. This is one thing where I have a hard time throwing away or getting rid of is old pair of jeans. And normally I won't hold on to things that I don't fit into anymore. This particular one with jeans, I have a hard time because I always have the hope that I will eventually fit into them and I'll actually have a good pair of jeans.
CHRISY:Well, I guess I never paid attention to it, but I I do like the lightness of the fabric that they use for the jeans. I not not a sponsor, don't want to give a shot, but uh, I do like Levi's for a brand, and they do have a style that I look for, and I'm obviously not the only one because sometimes they are hard to get.
SPEAKER_04:I've tried going into the men's section to find a pair of jeans in the men's section just so I could get that material, but my hips just aren't they're not built right for it, so I can't wear the men's jeans and try to pull it off.
CHRISY:Well, what about like uh some stores really pride themselves on having sort of that people who really do work outdoors a lot?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, well, yeah, you can get car hard and you can get some of that, but I want the jean. But you know the other thing on jeans, and uh we're talking about dysfunction is whose whose bright idea was it for the button flies? That's dysfunctional. Oh, where there's no zipper. Yeah, you go you get an emergency bathroom rush with that, and you get a button, four or five buttons.
CHRISY:Good gosh, no, yes, I've never owned I've I know what you're talking about, and I know that these are out there as an option. Yeah, I have never maybe is that sort of like a chastity boat?
SPEAKER_04:I remember having a pair in the 80s of button fly jeans, and that was like a really big thing, but holy heck, don't it's not practical, it's not practical, no on it.
SPEAKER_02:Whoa, uh oh. We got a man jean story.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god, I had the buttonflies too.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I I I don't I don't know what the what the appeal was, other than oh yeah, it was something different, but yeah, I still remember the jingle. I'm not gonna sing it for Levi's, it was 501. Yeah, 501 jeans had they had button flies, buttonflies.
SPEAKER_04:Uh-huh. What a pain in the butt. Yeah, literally. The button.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it was a pain in the front, not a pain in the butt.
SPEAKER_04:I can't imagine. I mean, especially for guys, even. I mean, you know, but so not practical. No, no, that was dysfunctional.
CHRISY:And we have the jeans too. Speaking of putting like things that can close your clothing in different places that or having one thing like buttons instead of a button zipper combo. Do you remember we had the jeans too? Because they were tight around your legs in the especially like the mid-80s. The zipper on the ankle part. Where you could like basically uh zip it up a little bit, about what? Yes, three, four inches, quarter inch or something. And uh that way you can like give your ankle some breathing room. Or if you were a victim of cankles, maybe it's for the cankle-afflicted people who need to like free up some space in their ankle area for their jeans.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that would like sometimes the zipper would get on your skin, on your ankle, because you probably weren't wearing socks, or if you were they were ankle socks, but you couldn't, yes, you know.
CHRISY:Yes, yeah. And to talk about that part of your leg and pants later in the 80s into the early 90s, we had the stirrup pants. Oh, yeah. Which were so the only thing I could say I really appreciated them was, and this is not like the leggings we have now. The yoga pants we have now are wonderful because they basically fit your leg everywhere. Yes. Stir up pants were snug, but yet there was some elastic strap that connected that you under your foot. Like you were you understand it because it's for horse riding, basically. And when you did wear boots, it was great. It was great because it you didn't have to worry about tucking in your pant leg, it stayed where it needed to be. Yes. But the one thing that was bad about them was because you had that stirrup stretching on your foot, the back of the pant does not stay to the back of the knee. What it did was when you stood a certain way, because it was yanking, it made this weird, awkward looking, bizarre lens. It was like a straight, ridiculous, I can't describe it. Except that it was no longer formed to your body. No, it wasn't. It was unappealing, it was not attractive. And it almost felt like your pants were being pulled down from the back. You're basically were fighting against your clothing. It was a battle. It was like who was gonna win?
SPEAKER_04:I mean, you basically had rubber bands all over your pants, which is why a lot of those stirrup pants actually some of them had it ended up being a jumper where it had like the the overall things coming up. So I had that too. Yeah, because you were counteracting the the the stirrup part on your forehead. Everything was from the the shoulders to the to the feet.
SPEAKER_02:Exactly.
CHRISY:It was actually I had one of those, it was like uh you could use it for dance. Yes, yes, and it would keep everything in place while you were doing whatever. Yeah. Well, one year for one of my Halloween parties, we had uh dress up, uh adult dress up time, and my husband over here dressed up as uh Paul Stanley from Kiss. And the uh thing he borrowed mine, it worked perfectly for what he was going for for his look as uh Paul Stanley from Kiss in full makeup. Yeah, uh it was but um yeah, so the stirrup thing was a nightmare.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I was I was I was chubby Paul Stanley.
CHRISY:Don't I thought it was. Great. My father did your makeup, which was awesome. My dad was able to do that artistic. Yeah. And he had really well because he had the clown. Yeah. So he knew exactly how to apply it.
SPEAKER_00:Wow.
CHRISY:And it looked really good. But so yeah, the stirrup thing was awful. And let's go to the other side. So now we have jeans and stirrup pants that are trying to squeeze the hell out of you. Yes. The other uh end of that was the MC Hammer. MC Hammer pants. There you go. And these, like, and I would almost say they sort of were in the same grouping as what I would call like genie pants. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
CHRISY:That had like this weird flap over of the fabric. And they were like, it was almost uh capri-like because it didn't go all the way to the floor.
SPEAKER_04:Right, right, right, right.
CHRISY:And it folded, so you almost looked like Barbara Eden from I Dream of Genie a little bit.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. But it also looked like you had a huge diaper on in a way because it was like very um non-flattering.
CHRISY:We had to counteract the large pants. We usually would put on a very tight shirt and jacket that had like metals. I had a lot from Contempo Casual. Yes. That was metals and chains.
SPEAKER_04:I loved the pair of MC hammer pants that I had. I thought they were very comfortable. Thought I was quite stylish in them. I'm sure you were. And I was, you know, I I wasn't really trendy at the time, or really, even now I wouldn't say I'm trendy, but I was proud of those MC hammer pants. But let's just say that not everybody in my immediate circle appreciated the MC hammer pants. This is doesn't involve me at all. Just to let everybody know. No, it does not involve you. It involves a person who I was a romantic partner with at the time of my life. Right. So, and that person got so mad about me wearing these pants in public that let's just say there was an altercation that happened and the pants somehow disappeared and were never to be found again.
SPEAKER_02:So you had to run around with no pants.
SPEAKER_04:I hope not. Well, they weren't taken off of me, but when I, you know, the next day, you know, went to look for them, they were no longer where I had put them. Did you put up signs trying to find them? Missing? Yeah. It was while we were on vacation at Disney World. So I I think they ended up being um in one of the garbage cans at the pool or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CHRISY:Funny how sometimes the clothing, especially at different points in our life, can cause an awful lot of disruption and our ability to uh get along.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, yes. This this definitely caused a a little bit of a domestic. So yeah.
CHRISY:Well, the one thing I have to say about pants like that, the MC hammer type pants, the other thing was, and it was a brand, I believe. They were called Skids. Yeah. S-K-I-D-Z. Yes. And they were very tapered at the ankle type thing with like an elastic thing. But then they branched out lovely at the the knee to waist area. And I remember if you had they had pockets. Yeah. You put your hands in your pockets, and then you could like basically where you look like an upside-down triangle or something like that. And that was just lovely. And I remember the emblem. I actually if you guys know me and you've lesi a lot enough. I do still have a few. I was just gonna say Chrissy. And I have my genie pants for Merry-Go-Round, too. That was another store from the past. I bought Contempo Casual, Merry-Go-Round, and these skids. I don't know if I bought those at a store called DJ's. Is that a store that used to be in the mall? DJs? I don't know. Is it the mall shopper? I hear nobody is now. Yeah. When I came into town to see you, you said you have to stay away from the mall.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah, that mall, yeah. In fact, that mall even was shut down for a while because they didn't pay their taxes. Wow. And now, yeah, it's going to be a little bit more. It's a mall.
CHRISY:The malls in general are just having a rough patch. I don't know that they're surviving. They're not. They're not. But uh, so yeah, I do have those, but they had the emblem on them. I remember it at the waist in the front, and it was like it looked like a street sign. It was yellow. Oh, okay. And it said skids, and I think it looked like a car skidding out of control or something.
SPEAKER_01:So yeah, that that uh I remember them called Zubaz that were like that. Z-U-B-A-Z.
CHRISY:I'm sure they there was a bunch of knockoff or something. Well, I don't know if they were knockoff, but just different groupings of them. What are you looking at there? Are these current ones?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they're not as baggy.
CHRISY:Oh, well, yeah, they have to stop at some point. You know the other thing that now talk about knockoffs, you made me remember from the 80s that was really popular. And Natalie, if you're listening, this is gonna involve you, honey. Jams. Yeah, those goddamn jams, those very colorful, ridiculous shorts. Uh-huh. Yep. And Natalie, I know you had a name brand. Probably from Kaufman's, I'm guessing. My mom, uh, not that she wouldn't have. Oh, yeah, that's what I had. Yep, yep. That's DJ next to one of those principles. Uh not that my mother wouldn't have bought me. Yeah. But again, because she was always generally involved with her life, yeah. Didn't background check it enough to know that she needed to buy the sticker, the big ass sticker that was on those things that said jams. Yes. She bought me what would have been a knockoff. Yes. Probably from Kmart or something for Christ's sake. Yeah. And because she had to pick up my father's prescriptions there or something. So she she ended up saying, Oh, these look like those uh shorts that Chrissy wanted. I'll buy them. Yeah. No, no. Ridiculous. Yeah. They did not have the vibrant, they were like the dull version of the actual jams. Natalie's jams were very colorful fingers. Damn you. That's probably why I was like, you know, we need to go for a bike ride and I need to teach you a lesson having all the good clothes.
SPEAKER_04:My cousins were always really good. They um they would uh their mom would always buy them the name brand stuff or whatever. And so, like, there were times like one of the ones for a while was the Coca-Cola shirts. And they were like a polo shirt, but a heavier cottony fabric, long sleeve, and it had the Coca-Cola in it, but there was two-tone. I remember I when they were wearing theirs, and I was so like, oh, I was so jealous. I wanted a Coca-Cola shirt. So my mom, you know, was being as thrifty as she was and wanted to try to do what she could for me. She found one at a knockoff. It said Coca-Cola, but what what it was is it was like the reject ones. And so this one was red, while the red had died the white part pink. So so she got it at a deal. But man, I was happy with I had that Coca-Cola shirt.
CHRISY:So I just came to the realization that because there was a period, and financially, I mean, I understand, like Nicole say it, you know, because his father ended up unfortunately being out of work. Right. His mom went back into the workforce, and your mom wanted to be thrifty. And my parents that was not really, I was very fortunate. They were both uh working and uh we were very financially uh capable. So it wasn't that my mother was buying stuff because of pricing issues, but it was uh that she just didn't she was not uh the type of person who would be up to date in what yeah was going on. Right. The fashion of the time. It was close enough. It was it just she looked like oh, this looks like it. Yeah. So she would just pick it up. So especially until I was able to like basically just take the money they handed off to me instead of shopping for me, and I had a license so I could go buy the stuff. There was that period where I just got like the really weird off-brand crap. Some of the places I probably started spending my money first, uh, and I do still have two of the shirts upstairs, and these are from the late 80s too. What I still wear the one. This tells you about the quality of this shirt. Benetton. I don't know, the United Colors of Benetton. It was a big deal. It was a small shop in the mall, and they they had the this ad campaign that was really inclusive to different countries, nationalities, very colorful clothes. And I have a Benetton sweatshirt that I still wear. It's in my active, I have like active clothing. Active clothes clothing that is allowed to be worn now, and then I have clothes that are inactive. They've been retired outside of the ones I try to get rid of. But I do have my Benettin shirts. Wow. And they are still uh they've the fabric feels wonderful. I mean, it's they were really good clothes. Oh, very good. So I think probably we can go with that. Maybe we can bring up uh 90s. I have to do some more research. I mean, we lived in the 90s. We went through the grunge thing. Yeah, oh yeah. The flannel and the unfortunately uh I love a good flannel. It was it was okay. I'm a little nostalgic for it. Not so much the flannel. The one thing I really liked wearing uh during that period was the uh the tights with the little baby doll dresses, like the Lisa Loeb from her video.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that look never looked uh just not my body type. So yeah.
CHRISY:I think you're selling yourself short. No, it just wasn't what you liked. I think you would have pulled it off.
SPEAKER_02:Nah, I don't think so.
CHRISY:You're being mean to yourself, I'm saying. Yeah, you're not being mean to me. You're being I think you're underestimating what you could have pulled off.
unknown:I don't know.
CHRISY:I don't know. Beyond that, now we started to age once we got into the 30s. I don't even know what to tell you what the fashion thing is. No, my I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_04:I'm a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl. Give me a sweatshirt and jeans or I do like a good pair of leggings nowadays, leggings, you know.
CHRISY:Yeah, the yoga type leggings are one nice, like I said, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I am truly, you know, give me a good old t-shirt. Now my sister wears skirts all the time and she pulls it off and looks good and everything. And there's so many times I'm like, dang, you know, she looks so nice and put together, and you know, and here's me with my t-shirt and jeans, but god, it's comfortable.
CHRISY:That's just not the we didn't, you and I are on the same page here. We not gonna prioritize having to apply makeup every day.
SPEAKER_04:Well, she doesn't apply makeup, but she just, you know, she she you know, we'll have a nice button shirt or you know, skirt or cardigan sweater or whatever.
CHRISY:I mean, she looks good, but I I grew up with a mother and siblings that that most of the time I had to sit around and wait for them for some sort of family function was due to the fact that they had to spend all this time applying makeup.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, yes.
CHRISY:You know, I wore my makeup when I was in high school. I wanted to look nice, and I wore makeup, but I don't know to what level the art of a application that they used was. It was very time consuming. It was, yes. And it's like, come on, yeah, slap it on, let's go.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I hear you. Well, this is interesting. Dysfunctional clothes, who would have known? It's all their fault, it's all the clothes' fault.
CHRISY:Oh, absolutely. Any time if we looked irritated and had a bad attitude, it was we were just uncomfortable. Yeah, exactly. And we were gonna snap at you any minute. Exactly. Just like our stirrups were about to snap.
SPEAKER_04:It was just a bad thing waiting to happen. Oh my. Well, we went out, and maybe we can find some old pictures we can post on there. Oh, Chrissy will do it. So, all right. So check us out on our Facebook page, check us out on our website, dysfunctionjunkiespodcast.com, and uh, we'll see you next week. Bye, everybody. Bye bye.
