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spice girls
80s
1990: I start using hair gel, still trying to perfect my irritatingly soft curls, an impossible task in the year-round humidity of South Florida. I favor a brand called Stiff Stuff. My resulting hair crunches like dry leaves.
cartoons
I apologize in advance for this.
nostalgia
xoJane editors share their prom photos and stories.
letters
Letters make me feel like I am whispering to a friend on the riverbank on a hot summer day, the air alive with the smell of bay laurel and the water so still that it looks like glass.
closets
I understand why you should give clothes away. I mean, I understand the logical reasoning behind it.
kate winslet
"Titanic" is as much about 1997 as 1912 as a touchstone of the hubris and optimism of an age; forgive me for saying so, but I believe it is much more difficult to make an earnest, naïve love story like this today.
chloe
Despite my interest in style and beauty, perfume has never really been my game. Like, just make me smell nice, you know?
barrettes
Because nothing goes with plastic shoes like streamer barrettes. There's a lot of pictures in this one.
Marianne in
DIY,
barrettes,
nostalgia,
how to,
streamers,
hair accessories,
dressing like a grown up,
dressing like a six year old,
ribbons
Jan 15, 2013 at 3:30pm | 30 comments
book clubs
In this semi-regular series, we’ll talk about our favorite books related to somewhat specific topics and themes. It’s like a cross between the New York Review of Books and a book club, minus any pretense or guilt.
Brittany in
Entertainment,
book clubs,
books,
home,
maps,
Meghan Daum,
Melissa Holbrook Pierson,
memoirs,
nostalgia,
reading,
reading books about
Feb 9, 2012 at 6:00pm | 21 comments
childhood
I showed up to the dinner table in my ninja suit and pulling out a large butterfly knife to cut my meat. We were having Vaca Frita (Cuban Fried Beef) and my butter knife just wasn’t sharp enough.
nickelodeon
Was this the strangest show ... IN THE WORLD? (Probably.)
dating
There is no shame, friendos, in being in your 20s, 30s or 90s and loving puppets.
80s
Goldblum and Lauper as psychic treasure hunters? Look, it was a different time.
David in
Entertainment,
80s,
cyndi lauper,
great moments in rock history,
jeff goldblum,
movies,
nostalgia,
vibes
Jan 20, 2012 at 5:00pm | 0 comments
clothes
Yes, it's still a pillowcase. But a cute one!
90210
Just hearing her voice on TV the other night froze me in my tracks and caused me to start thumping the ground with my hind leg.
nostalgia
Pick the first installment of our new "Nostalgia Reality Check" series.
childhood
With proof, from my 5th grade diary.
books
The weirdest thing about reading these books as an adult is that I am acutely aware they are written by middle-aged men, one of whom I would like to have a drink with at a bar and one who I would not.
Jessica in
Entertainment,
books,
christopher pike,
horror,
nostalgia,
nostalgia reality check,
r.l. stine,
YA lit
Aug 2, 2011 at 3:02pm | 0 comments
adolescence
Sorry girls, xoJane.com isn’t for you.
