completely OT: please vote

Done. At the same time you made me nostalgic for the Paramus Mall. I left a lot of cash there in my day.

Lucille

Thanks! But I should ask, WHICH Paramus Mall? When I grew up there, we would shop at the Bergen Mall and the Garden State Plaza (later a mall). Then they built Paramus Park, right about the time I left NJ (early 70s)

- that one had the primo NY stores - Lord and Taylor, Saks Fifth Ave, etc. - so it's unlikely I'd do a lot of shopping there anyway, due to price. We were a Bambergers/Gimbels family (Garden State Plaza). When DS was born, 31 years ago this month, one of his first outfits came from Saks at Paramus Park, purchased by his godmother, who then lived in Ridgefield Park.

Waxing nostalgic alongide you!

sue

BTW: In case anyone doesn't see "Heather M" in the choices: She was at the Cherry Hill Mall event. For some reason, AOL only showed me the Kansas event, and I couldn't figure out how to get to the right competition!

In the days I went to Paramus Park, I could shop at some of those stores and get phenomenal buys on clothing on sale. That was before liposuction and so much plastic surgery so being a short and thin was a definite plus on the sales racks. There weren't a lot of people who liked the kind of conservative, preppy look that I favored in such small sizes and that stuff was always left over.

Besides that, it was fun to go all the way there for a days outing. Not like now when there are large malls all over the place.

OMG - I miss shopping in Jersey...

C

Any one remember Sims?

C

One of my favorite hangouts, but in Long Island and not in Jersey. I liked Syms better then Loehmans, which was inconvenient to get to.. A bit of trivia-did you know that Marci Syms is his daughter and not his wife as everyone thought?

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I vaguely remember Syms. I think we were able to buy fabric there...probably leftover bits from the manufacturer? I seem to remember some Syms double-knits I had in my stash at the time.

Earlier this summer I got a huge piece of floral double-knit from the

70s from an older lady at church who is cleaning house. (And a couple of patterns from that era!) My 21 y.o. DD's eyes grew wide, and she immediately began to plan what she wanted made from it.

sue

Which proves my theory that nothing is new and if you keep your things long enough, and don't change size, you could probably stop shopping for clothes when you're young.

"Everything old is new again"

While I might still want to be the same size, no way I'm wearing burnt orange double knit pants again...

C

Well, okay I'll go along with that, but mine were never orange, they were always teal.

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Lol and how about men and their leisure suits ??

Not particularly good looking, but they will be back anyway. Lots of ugly fashions return, only to go into obscurity again and again.

For many, many moons now, I've know John, a coworker of myself and later my DH. When I first met him in 1982, he had a mint green leisure suit he always wore on Wednesdays. He was still wearing it, though less frequently in 2000 when his wife burned it.

She said the smell was horrific but totally worth it.

C

Lol I can quite see that ! What was his reaction ?

I'm not sure... She told me the story at a holiday party a few years later.

C

Linda's maxim: Just when you finally get rid of the last of it (straight legs, skinny legs, bell bottoms, etc.), they come back into style.

*snip*

Just saying - I voted - she looks really good! And, well, there is still a "SYMS" here in Falls Church. It has some great buys, but I think has kind of gone a bit downhill to much lower end stuff. OTOH, the Loehman's in the DC area are pretty good. But, you do have to keep on checking.

Ellice