awkward phases
 

so as i have just been going though a heap of old pictures, i realized that i was not immune to the phenomena known to the general public as an "awkward phase". wearing hideous, ill-fitting clothing, perhaps a terrible haircut, weird teeth, odd proportions, etc.

so spill. i want to hear every last gruesome detail about your "awkward" phase(s), even if speaking of such a painful time in one's life throws you into a maddening depression.
photographic evidence is not necessary but it is encouraged.

i haven't gone out of the awkward phase yet.

why??? hearing about yours is a lot more amusing. details, please, details...

We're still on message boards, things must be pretty awkward for all of us.

i was really goofy and kind of weird looking, like before i started putting any thought into my appearance. i had a kind of boyish figure and i was way taller than everyone else, and then i started plucking my eyebrows and i sucked at it and fucked them up several times...

i guess i was like 11, 12 maybe. that coat was god awful, it had sky blue panels down the side and it was nylon or whatever they made those fucking things out of.

My friend plucked my eye brows the other day. My eye brows were really ugly. They made this weird angular arch. Now they are just normal looking.

the clothes suck but you look fine, you big showoff! :P

i have to pluck the shit out of mine because they're the same color as my hair is naturally i guess, and if they were thick they would look weird with such light hair. but these days i am an expert.

great, now this has turned into an eyebrow plucking thread.

sure, that's your awkward phase...

I AM NOT SHOWING OFF. you haven't seen the worst of it. i'll dig up more but here's one of that hideous coat and my angular face. i looked like a long-haired boy.

ok, there you look like a young mick jagger.



now i understand your fascination with keef.

I used to be really fat when I was 11/12. Thank god I got taller and thinned out quite a bit. I still need to lose a few pounds though.

Cantankerous, you may have looked like a long hair boy, but you look great now and thats all that matters.

i don't think she's really "traumatized" by her past, but just having a good laugh.

i know! i totally looked like mick jagger minus horse teeth, which is not so great for a girl but i think i've evolved enough from that point.




hahahaha

got the nail right on the head.

I was just making a subtle joke about appearances being all that mattered. :(

that jacket is way rad.

those army shorts are funny though

ARGH!!! THE WITCHING EYE!!!!

I've been jinxed!!! I can feel it.

*forks fingers*




I look the same as I did when I was 7 (I'd kill for my old Flash Gordon shirt), but my hair is no longer blonde. I tried to scan some of my old pics, but the scanner's power supply cord has gone missing.

DORK4LIFE

HAHAa what the hell?

I had a bowl-cut for... fuck, man, years. But that was when it was cool to have them, 'cos I was like, 5-7, so I mean... who cares?

As of yet, I don't seem to be able to get out of an awkward stage...

they were actually some weird-ass pants where they had strings at the ankles that you could pull and they'd turn into capri pants or whatever. i think they had some pink and orange dragony embroidery at the side.
awful, i know.
actually if you like that coat you might like this one i have now, it's this big puffy colorblocked/chevron striped thing from the 70s. brown, orange, and yellow.

you'll pull yourself out of it. i believe i started going wayward not too long after those photos were taken...now my wardrobe contains an obscene amount of lurex, velvet, and platform shoes, which is perhaps awkward but at least i look cool most of the time. give it a bit of time and soon you might be even more flamboyant.

etc.

Oh, the main problem is that I have no middle ground. I am either extremely shy and uncomfortable and quiet, or extremely jumpy and agitated and excited.
I've been known to wear some pretty avant-garde clothes, though. Tight pants, tight shirts, and some obscure/womans/flashy long-sleeve shirt is the way to go.

My wardrobe contains two pairs of pants and about 100 t-shirts. Thats it.

this thread just keeps changing directions. damnit.

No way! Same thing my way, brah! (Plus the mentioned long-sleeves and sweaters/cardigans).

FACE IT, TANK, THE THREAD IS THE PEOPLE'S'!

eyebrow plucking, flamboyant clothing, what next? cosmetic dentistry?

awkward phase in about year 10, aged 15ish, i was a foot taller than everyone else and didn't know what to do with my hair so i just dyed it black and cut giant chunks off it.

me in the middle

Everyone's awkward in junior high and late grade school.
For me, the saddest awkward phases occurred after that; the sad part being that I thought I looked "pretty cool" at the time.
Same photos you've all seen before so I won't bother finding the links blahblahblah.

I haven't seen that cape in a long time.

ooh clone i have a coat you might like too. long, black crushed velvet, double breasted with a big hood.

jesus christ, i have one for every occasion.

wearing my sister's pants,
I really have no idea when this was

Sounds awesome.

it is. it's extremely heavy, though. i'll have to weigh it when i go home.

I can relate. I have a full-length 1940s German leather coat that weighs about 20 pounds, I swear.

WELL! I am going for jaw surgery in a week!!!

neat! i swear if i ever run into you in some bizarre turn of events i'm gonna kidnap you and take you shopping with me.

i've always been awkward, but i guess it's endearing to people. even when i try my hardest to not be liked, people like me. hmph. i guess in 8th grade, i wore all black every day (i wasn't "goth" though, i didn't do anything else even remotely similiar to goth, just wore all black) and hang out WITH the goths.. i'd occassionally do gay things like paint my nails (not black!) when i was in high school.. i dunno why.. i just thought it was cool to not be like everyone else.. i mean, i dyed my hair purple and pink and stuff.. i think lots of people do that.. i dunno.. i wasn't doing it for attention, i did it because i thought people would love me alone.. haha.. my naive brain.. all it did was make punk kids coem up and go, "Yo dude rancid" .. i used to have panic attacks around large groups of people.. as that died down, so did my wanting to be so different..

plus, now i realize it doesn't fucking matter either way and i don't care nor does anyone care about anyone or anything and the way they look. so i'm still awkward. i just put myself in situations where i can handle it better perhaps.

My whole life has basically been one giant awkward phase. Few pictures exist because few people want to have me in their pictures. Right now I pretty much wear the same thing every day and I don't wash my clothes very often. In the winter I wear the same thing every day. I have two closets, both full of clothes that I hardly ever wear. I think ever since leaving high school, all normal clothing has begun looking bad to me. I like having a job that requires a uniform because I do a lot less laundry and I don't have to think about hating all other clothing so much.

I wear basically the same thing every day as well.
I have numerous identical clothing items, and a lot of others that vary only slightly.

Found a funny pic that I haven't used for personal humiliation purposes in the past. I'm dressed for some sort of formal occasion, so my awkward suburban teenage goth/punk dress isn't represented, but the suit makes it funnier if you ask me. This is late 1985, and I was just barely 15 here:


This isn't a picture of me per se, but it commemorates an "awkward phase" as well as anything because I can't stand the Descendents now! Still, pretty nice of my mom to make me and a friend this cake for our 16th birthdays in August 1986:

oh.. the puberty years, i need to scan soem pics.

and yeah, cantankerous your arms on the second pic made me tremble a bit.