When I see a German family of 4 sitting next to us on the monorail to Disney wearing matching culottes and Mickey visors, and Jude leans over and asks me why they are speaking Spanish to each other, I remember how awesome the world is.
And how ridiculous culottes look.
Thank God you can only find them in Germany now.
I wore lots and lots of culottes in high school. It was 1989. I hope that’s okay.
Aren’t culottes back in style now, along with everything else awful about the ’80s? Maybe they’re just ahead of the curve …
Ah, my favorite and best school picture is 3rd Grade where I’m wearing a blue and white striped shirt and blue culottes. I thought I was such a trendsetter and totally showed with my big-ass smile. To this day, I still love that picture and fondly remember all the space those culottes afforded my inner thighs.
I may have rocked the culottes back then (or at least in my mind I thought I did) but HELL NO to them on me now!!
Hope you and your family are having a fabulous time in Disney!
hahah I love culottes. Well. to wear around the house. And I call them gaucho pants. not sure if they’re culottes-by-any-other-name or if they’re really different. But they look the same, so Idk. Whatevs. Comfort, yes!
My parents lived in Germany for 2 years. When I went to visit them in July 2009, they warned me not to pack shorts because NO ONE in Germany wears shorts. Um, have you seen leiderhosen? Or “The Sound of Music?” Okay, I know that was Austria but isn’t Austria just a more melodic Germany? Anyhoo, I was delighted when we met many of their friends, ALL WEARING SHORTS. Can’t wait to share with themthat Germans have now embraced culottes as well (albeit 35 years to late to be on trend)!
i also fully embraced culottes way back in like… 1987 when i was in school, and i thought i was just stylin like youdon’tevenknow… now i look back at those pics, and i think, omg woman, why didn’t you look in the mirror before walking out the door!!!
now i *always* look in the mirror. but good on the germans for not giving a damn!
also, slightly unrelated… i saw a pic online of a family at disney dressed in exactly matching outfits… like, mother and daughter wearing the same dress, same shoes, same hairband, hairband and dress made from matching fabric. dad and son wearing shirts made from the same material as mother & daughter’s dress.. dad & son wearing matching chinos and shoes…
tell me… this is a one-off right? am i gonna have to co-ordinate our outfits now, on top of planning our trip to disney?