Turtlenecks

These shirts at Macy's made me think about May D&F/Foley's/Macy's at Villa Italia Mall in Lakewood Colorado in the 80s. My mom always wore clothes like this and it is the kind she would buy me. I don't remember really wanting anything else, but I didn't like how I looked. I look now at pictures of myself back then and can't stand how droopy haired and goofy I looked and I can't stand the clothes I wore. I don't want to wear anything like it now.

 

I remember my mom always going to Hallmark, you could do all your shopping for a gift at this store. They have very cute items and most everything I like there. But times have changed I think. It is sad to me that Hallmark's are going out of business. It reminds me of simpler and kinder times. Maybe not realistically, but to me. I was innocent and sheltered, and my parents weren't rich, but I was fortunate to live in a wonderful house in a rich neighborhood. However, I thought everyone lived that way, and when I got out on my own in my early 20s, I quickly found out it isn't that way.

 

I don't go to the mall that often. I took my son and his friend there over the weekend and while they went their way I went mine. I like a lot of the things in the windows, but it doesn't mean I have to have them. I like the cute animals from Build-A-Bear, which reminds me of when I took my kids there when they were little. I have bittersweet memories of that. Other windows I just liked, I don't know why. But it made me think a lot about the 80s and 90s, my mom always would shop at Sears or JC Penney's or Joslins. I went into Macy's and it reminded me alot of those stores from that era. I miss those times.

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