Ha. See, that is where you would be proven wrong. Oh sure, she was the model of a patient patient for approximately the first 5 minutes. Then it all went downhill from there.
Fortunately, in the waiting room we found that pinnacle of literature, Vogue magazine. Believe it or not, this is not one that we have a subscription for at home. We really enjoyed looking at the great fashions. Here is one now.
I think that open area at the top is to stuff your leftovers after you've been out to dinner. I'm not sure what else it could possibly be for.This one was another favorite of ours. It isn't every designer that can create something that is capable of making even an anorexic model look pregnant yet unattractive at the same time.
We thought this young woman had just the prettiest eyes. So young and innocent.
Once we went through two months of Vogue and decided we were very out of fashion, we finally got called back to the exam room.There's nothing like mother-daughter bonding over fashion. Or lack thereof.
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those shoes. ugh.
I need that leftovers dress. I'd really rock it too.
Weird dresses aside; I do wonder who thinks the 'I just cried my eyes out so my makeup is ruined' look makes a fashion statement. Maybe to distract from the actual clothing?
It is kind of maddening that our 18 year olds can technically make medical decisions when they can't seem to figure out how to put the milk away.
I friend of ours brought her vogue over to us (Bill and me) on the beach one day after she's finished it. It's really practically impossible to get through. You start to feel dirty and hungry and, I don't know, sick from too much candy after about 1/3 through. We pawned it off on someone else.....
Ellie
I've often wondered about dresses that make these skinny...er... models look fat. If they can't wear them how are they going to look on real people!?
It must be like "art," because there's some stuff people will rave about and pay millions for, but it looks to me like something that got pulled out of my sink disposal and got superglued to canvas. Maybe we just don't have the eye for "beauty." Whatever.
Love this post. My daughter is only 8 but we still laugh about models with spaghetti legs as we call them...
Makes Walmart off-the-rack look great to me!
I love making fun of models. And dumb "fashion". That one where she looks prego - what gives? I am so confused. I would be wearing a leather skin-tight somethin'. Crazy little girls who don't eat.
I want to wrap up about 4 scarves all around that first model's chest and neck.
That magazine doesn't depict real life people.
At least you found a way to pass the time. I recently took my elderly mom to her eye doctor. We waited for FOUR HOURS. No lie. One other lady in the waiting room actually called her hubby and asked him to bring her a sandwich. I was appalled and incredibly annoyed. My mom and all the other patients took it in stride. Guess that's why they call them 'patients'.
I know this is probably surprising, but I single handedly supply our office waiting room with trashy magazines. It always warms my heart when I hear teenagers and their parents bondoing over what a skanky ho Kim Kardashian is.
Yikes. Can't wait for that stuff to hit the stores...
A leftovers dress is a brilliant idea. I mean, to look fabulous and have a storage compartment for leftover food? Brilliant!
Oh no Debbie -- you miss understood. The open shoulder of the first garment is to store your diapers and wipes. At least that's what i did when I wore this to church last week. Very practical, I assure you.
My granny used it to store her tissues, but that might be a little tacky these days, don't you think?
I have never understood high fashion. Just don't get it.
Ah. Bonding. Love it. Did some bonding myself with my son over the weekend, in Services toilets on the M25. Anytime, anyplace.
Beautiful eyes or meth addict? The verdict is still out on that one.
My daughter and I bond over project runway. I must be out of style too, I often like the looks that get ripped apart by the judges.
I love looking at Vogue though!
Well, Halloween was right around the corner, yes?
Bonding = Good
High Fashion = Bad
Glad to know that the crack whore look is alive and well. Although these girls look like they are the crack whores that stole the old mans trench coat.
I have never looked at Vogue Magazine. Next time I am at the doctors office I will have to look at some of these eye-popping images up close.
(Leftovers) That cracks me up. That one looks like a raccoon.
(Smiles)
...and have you ever seen anyone other than the Goth kids dress like that for real? They really need to stock the waiting rooms with JC Penney catalogs don't you think?
I have never been able to understand why/how some of these designers create stuff that makes women look old, ugly and just, well not nice -and they charge an arm and a leg for it which, also confusing to me too, women seem to gladly fork over their life savings then to own this crapola. Keep me safe and secure with my non-fashionable wardrobe -oh and relatively affordable too. Just had to add that!
I've never understood "High Fashion"....not my cup of Warm Chocolate Milk :)
Vogue scares me!
I have lived in several very big cities in my day, NY, DC, Chicago... I've even spent a considerable amount of time in Paris... and I have NEVER, repeat NEVER seen anyone in real life wearing these clothes... maybe I just don't hang out in the right parts of town.....
Leftovers in the dress? That girl needs some leftovers in her belly!
zombie fashion--what fun!
There is just something very wrong when we can't access the records we are still paying for.
It takes a malnourished model to pull those close off, outdated or not. They would never fly here on the Ponderosa. I'd scare the cows and we'd have a full blown stampeed!
Ya'll have a great day!!!
I totally don't get fashion today. It's hard enough to get all gussied up (?) without shirts that look like you didn't know where the arm holes were.
Can't wait to grow up and paint myself up with Halloween eyes every day of the year.
That is what you grown up gals do, right??
So chic.
BlogBaby
Fashion is scary.
ACK. They say 5 minutes of looking at fashion magazines can impair your self esteem for the rest of the day. Or destroy your faith in designers. I can't remember which!
Isn't that what everyone who eats only blood looks like? (except for the preggo thing, not sure what that's about since vampire don't procreate) (reportedly).
Ah..the fashions they throw at us...are you kidding, when is the last time you actually saw someone wearing anything like that in real life!
By the way.. loved your post on reading glasses and the magnifying mirror!
And the price for ugly is amazing as well.
Is this really the fashion world? I mean come on people! Who wears crap like that? Have you ever watched What Not to Wear? I always imagine I'm above those losers on the show, but by their standards, I am just as unfashionable as the poor saps that get ambushed. Booo!
thank´s for your comment. I´m also jealous.
with 19 she was so horrable thinny and now, it´s perfect....
I want these legs :-)
Nic
isn't it nice that we can't afford those then?!
Those Vogue magazines crack me up. I mean REALLY --do people wear those things and use that kind of makeup. Hey, I watch America's Next Top Model ---I know about the SMIZE.
You are a good little mommy to escort your 18 year old to the doctors. One day you will be holding her hand as she has her babies. Mom's do that kind of thing.
Do you remember once I told you I have 2 neices in Tennesse. One in Nashville and one in Knoxville.
I'd love to visit there someday
and p.s. --regarding your post Blind but Beautiful.
I still don't wear glasses at 58, but I know I need them. and YES I hold things far away when I try to read them.
and I have a magnifying glass for the telephone book and other ridiculously small things.
and YES I have a magnifying MIRROR ---Why oh Why do I want to see "that" up close and personal. But it helps me find that little wiry whisker that seems to crop up on my chin. Yeah, you wait, as you get older, you'll find one.
Oh, you found my picture in Vogue! Ha!
Honestly, this form of fashion is like night and day from reality. Seriously... ridiculous, huh? Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks so.
Scary!!! I look forward to making fun of the models with my daughters someday.
Your Doc's office has VOGUE?!?!?! Mine has Field & Stream, Golf and American Baby...... Yawn.
xo
Fashion is just a clever (or not so clever) marketing ploy to keep us all feeling so hopelessly out of date that we're running to our neighborhood boutiques in a blind panic. I, however, ignore it.
Yet another reminder of how hopelessly out of fashion I am. By their standards.
To me, I adore my black t shirts and hanes underware and jeans.
Blessings-
Amanda
Ha, ha, funny post.
My daughter recently graduated with a degree in fashion design. She's very talented, and it looks like they NEED her on the runway. Unfortunately, she's focused on costume design for film and television. Their loss!!!
I bet you wish you had some of those fashions when it was time to put the paper gown on!
The joy of mother-daughter bonding... I've got all boys so I'm found in the corner of the waiting room with the boys making car noises as we look at car magazines...
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oh, don't you just adore haute couture? *gag*
wow we are in sinq today! I spent an hour at the Dr. today and went through every field and stream the guy had. WTF!!? Field and stream! Seriously, does he think the dads are the ones taking their kids to the Dr.?
Dumbass
Something tells me that first model doesn't even go to dinner let alone stuff left overs in her jacket, dress thingy. :)
Jeans and t-shirts don't go outta style :)...I don't get that coutour stuff heck i can't even spell it!
The pall of death is so becoming.
And strappy silver platforms with black tights (2nd pic, to right)is another fetching look!
you guys should watch Project Runway together, you should see the wierd, not so fun to look at dresses that sometimes come out of that runway!
I know, I watch old movies and think, 'why do the top fashion designers create stuff that looks like hefty bags these days??' And a doctor shouldn't be displaying that to impressionable teens.
man i love vogue its just so....insane
Oh wow, this is hilarious!
I have a surprise for you at my blog this morning :)
I'm then minority here. I'll admit those two are awful & my daughter and I do make fun of the models. However, neither one of us can wait until our issue arrives at our door each month. The shoes, the purses, the hair, the couture fashion...*sigh*
Then again it might be because I worked in the industry for a while and just had so much fun with it.
I always wonder what these designers are trying to say about their styles, obviously you can't walk around like that! Maybe it is just artistic expression, but I think they would be better off having the models wear stuff that we look at and go, "Yes, that is something I could wear!"
If that's fashion, I'm glad I'm out of it.
I missed your blog terribly while I was away. Thanks for the witty and funny posts like this one.
I'm somewhat relieved to discover that snarking at what is supposedly 'fashion' is not just a mother-daughter thing in the Non Stepford home, lol!!!
Love the line about the outfit that made the anorexic look both pregnant and unattractive. I think I got that right. Anyway, very funny stuff.
The last picture scares me...
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I'm not sure what I would do if I actually saw someone dressed like that out in public...
Love the mother-daughter bonding. At her age, you take it where you can get it.
I always wonder "who really wears this stuff??" It's funny how I'm sure your 18 yr old still needs you in so many ways but you can't have access to their medical records. Go figure!
gee we might agree on fashion. Here I thought I was the fashion-challenged person. Maybe the designers are actually the challenged ones.
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I simply don't get it.
But isn't it fun sometimes to see old styles coming back in? That's when I get to go digging in the back of my closet and pull out some 80's stuff! :-)
You are so beautiful and funny.
I don't even know what I do in doctors offices anymore. I think I stare at the walls.
Love Renee xoxo
It amazes me the clothing that people call "fashionable". I wouldn't be caught dead in any of it!
Young and innocent, indeed!
Seems the designers always come out with weird stuff we never see in real life. Or maybe our real lives are too ordinary for the designers. Thankful for that.
I am a fashion lover but honestly sometimes the things in magazines I either cringe or say to myself I could design something better than that blind folded.
That second rolls looks like big fat rolls around the abdomen.
Yup...we all strive for that look.
I tried my hand at fashion designing (or fashion coordinating) earlier this week with less-than-spectacular results :-) But while at the beauty salon I found a magazine with layouts even uglier than mine. lol
It's almost like the main criteria for fashion designing is having really bad taste...
...and for models, a willingness to look hideous.
Wow - I never thought about the 18yr old issue---still a child, not really a child! I won't have access to my sons records?? But I need to...at least til he's out of college!!
Bonding over Vogue in a waiting room... I LOVE IT! LOL
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