my emotional attachment to mom jeans ran deep..afterall i was a mom for 26 years..i plunged into momhood with mama bear like instincts and never looked back..well, until now..Let me begin by telling you a bit about jeans and me..the first time I heard the term.."blue jeans" it was on summer vacation 1967.. road trip .. across the fruited plain..My family would travel caravan style with my uncle Bob...and cousins, Richard and Brenda..Brenda wanted to wear blue jeans and her mother, my aunt Ellen, was having a fit over it all..It was a constant battle between the two. times were a changin' blue jeans were in and peddle pushers were out..I sat back and listened to the war of words between my aunt and Brenda thoughout the vacation..I was so relieved when knights in white satin came on the radio...finally a bit of peace..all was quiet..until the next jeans argument erupted...
When I look back on my life according to blue jeans..I remember my first pair..they were blue jean bell bottoms..cute as can be..hip hugger style..I wore a leather belt with them and tied up my tops..wore hippie beads and a leather headband..i must admit..this look was my "signature" look and one I remember with fondness..next in the blue jeans dept..was a pair of high waisted blue jeans...belled with a cuff at the bottom..very 70's and much approved of by the adults of the day...
Today..while cleaning out my closet I went through my jeans..I had a myriad of mom jeans..mom jeans left from my years of car pooling..after school activities..taco bell runs..walking with neighbors around the block..throwing on mom jeans in wonder woman fashion..ready at any moment to rescue my child..I wore my mom jeans with pride..I had elastic waist mom jeans..pull up pant style mom jeans..acid wash mom jeans..pleated in the front mom jeans..all worn..with love..and total devotion to my momdom world i so lovingly embraced..Today when I looked at each pair of mom jeans.. and put them in the "give away pile" ..i wiped away one tear..shuffled my feet a bit and kissed the last pair goodbye...My nostalgia was brief. I quicky threw on a pair of newly fashioned Lucky Brand.. hip hugger Hippie Jeans.. worn with a leather belt..I feel like an old me has emerged..an old me that was always there...and just waiting to peek her face around the corner and say, "psst psst..over here...hey it's knights in white satin" "Pull up your blue jeans..your 17..reaching for your dreams" and you know? that is exactly how i feel today..this very minute..53 and reaching for my jeans and dreams..and i will never look back...
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