I saw this image in one of the pages I follow on Facebook and it brought back memories of my teenage years.
That’s how short I used to wear my dresses 👗😅🤭🤭🤭
I sent it onto my daughter and sisters, with the following memory; none of them would remember me in mini skirts! It caused a fair amount of hilarity, so I thought I should share it with you too 😁😁😉
I was about 19 years old, and remember one day walking to work from Hillbrow into Central Johannesburg – I had on a very short, beautiful pale blue/turquoise dress with a white edging pattern & a little bolero jacket to match, with a teeny tiny lacy blue & white petticoat (maximum 6 inches length) & the highest platform shoes (blue – a fiend for colour coordination 🙄🙄).
As I was walking, obviously attracting a lot of attention (I was very skinny in those days), I felt something tickling the tops of my thighs. I felt around but couldn’t identify what it was. This went on for a few minutes as I walked. Suddenly I realised that it was my petticoat sliding down. The waist elastic had snapped 😂😂🤪
So I stopped, wriggled the offending article down to my ankles (I didn’t dare bend over with my extremely high shoes – would have been a faceplant). When the ‘slip’ reached the ground, I daintily stepped out of it, crouched down very carefully, picked it up, stuffed it in my bag & haughtily walked on 😁 head held high!!
The incident attracted a lot of attention.
At least my underwear was colour coordinated. My Mother used to say: “always wear clean underwear, you never know when you might get hit by a bus, you at least want clean underwear “. You might be dead, but at least your panties are clean 😂😂😂I went one step further and colour coordinated 😁😁😁
😂😂 … oh, I had a good laugh now! My mom had so many of those short mini skirts in her wardrobe and I remember how my friends and I held “fashion shows” in her clothes (and those high platform shoes) … one of my friends asked my mom on occasion what happened with the rest of the skirt because it was so short 😅.
And that saying of “clean underwear” … I heard that often from my grandmother! Thank you for bringing back such wonderful memories!
😄😄😄😄🤭🤭 I’m delighted you enjoyed it… yes, the clean underwear saying was passed down from my grandmother too!! As for the shoes, OMG when I look at platforms now, I have no idea how I stayed upright 😂😂😂 these days I can barely manage a 1 inch heel. I’m so used to walking in trainers now that when my daughter got married 3 years ago, I had to ‘practice’ walking around in the 1inch heels I bought for the day. Ouch