What to wear back to the hometown

[brie]

I too am from a small town. It's amazing how people are so in awe when someone leaves a small town. When I moved to Florida a couple of years ago (though I'm not in FL anymore), people were saying allllll kinds of things. "Oh she moved to NEW YORK. I think she's working for a fashion designer." "Oh yeah she moved to Chicago to go to school." "Oh I heard she moved to Charlotte." My mother heard all sorts of different rumours she had to dispell. I don't know where they all came from. I guess it's just the way people react to someone breaking out of the small town trap.

 

[Toxxxic]

Originally posted by Alejandro@Sep 27 2004, 10:14 PM
Well Mazel Tav

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Uhh I have no clue what that mean but I'm just gonna pretend and say thank you!

 

[TheSweetest]

As You Like It where the heck are you from? I wish I was from there. There really are parts of the world where they will stop you in the street to tell you that you should have stayed right in that town instead of moving away to still be nobody. I am from a place like that. I could cry writing this. They are ruthless.

My mom and I have moved away and are still debating on attending our old church for the family event held every February. If I go then I am on the same page as lovespell. Gotta look fab! Looking for red shoes to go with that coat and dress below.

 

[AlexN]

This isn't quite the same, but I love seeing people I went to highschool with nowadays. I only graduated a couple of years ago, but I've changed soooo much, in many ways.

Anyhow, everyone's always wonderfully surprised when they see me now. Especially the girls ; most of the guys don't understand ("Dude, why'd you make your jeans like that?"), but who freakin' cares?

 

[As You Like It]

Originally posted by TheSweetest@Sep 28 2004, 07:13 PM
As You Like It where the heck are you from? I wish I was from there. There really are parts of the world where they will stop you in the street to tell you that you should have stayed right in that town instead of moving away to still be nobody. I am from a place like that. I could cry writing this. They are ruthless.

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I'm from northwestern Nebraska. People might talk like crazy behind your back, but not generally to your face. They're weirdly reticent that way.

The only people from my hometown whose opinions I rate are my parents, and they think I am doing just fine, so that's good enough for me.

Another thing I should add is that I never had any illusions that I was going to have a glamourous, exciting, amazing, envy-invoking life after I moved away. I always planned on having a fairly peaceful, low-key life, and here I am. Sure, I had hoped for a more intellectual career than what I have, but not all of our dreams come true.

When I was still back in my old hometown, I never went around with the attitude that the world could eat my dust when I moved on, and that I would come sashaying back all successful and glamorous and rub my success in everyone's face. Since I never had big, wild ambitions and never trumpeted my theoretical potential, nobody has much reason to say much about or to me.

I always had the reputation for being kind of off-the-wall and a smartass, so anyone who actually remembers me knows I'm snarky and dress weird, but other than that, I didn't leave much of a reputation behind myself. I wasn't popular, well-known, or widely-adored in highschool, so I don't have much to live up to in that regard, either. I was the weird chick who made all sorts of surreal commentary in class, took up insane dares, and made up her own dance moves at Homecoming. Since I am still weird, probably all anyone would have to say about me is, "Well, Michelle hasn't changed a bit...still dresses funny and uses all of those big vocabulary words. What a freak!"

 

[fashionista-ta]

This thread is so cute

 

[The_Ida]

I'm in my hometown right now, can't wait to go back to the city... All the girls here look like prostitutes. They splatter themselves with makeup, very much like the plastic look, fake hair, fake nails, fake everything. They look cheap. Oh, and everything has to match Belt, shoes and purse

I'm not really into that

 

[The_Ida]

Well, I'm only here to work, and they all know I'm not into the whole teen prostitute look. I didn't do it when I lived here anyway, so I'm just the same old me. I often get told that I'm very different from everyone else...maybe it's because I don't tan, pull my pink thongs up so they're visible in my low waisted jeans or pluck my eyebrows into oblivion.

It's quite fun, really.

 

[Eurasian Mélange]

I would love to waltz back into my home town and show everyone how I rose above it all and became what I am despite all those years of ruthless bullying I suffered at their hands. I don't think that is sick or twisted: to want to tell the nasty people from your past, 'You failed at bringing me down with you'. I have definitely gained a lot more confidence and become more beautiful and stylish than I was then. I am actually not sure if people would recognise me or not, I have changed so much as a person! Just need a little more work on being rich (don't particularly want to be famous).