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Things That Have Prevented Me from Wearing White Pants
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Funny, I read through the comments and couldn’t imagine feeling comfortable wearing white pants – but thinking about it, I have several white dresses that I wear regularly and without worry 😅
not to mention dirty benches, dirty chairs, or the impromptu need to sit on the floor, grass, ground, any surface that will leave a mark that is hard to wash off.
The Argentina tshirt (probably Messi’s?)!! My heart! <3 <3 <3
I’m late to this discussion but I can proudly say that at 52 i now finally dare to wear white pants and skirts! (Cue the happy jig). Menopause is great! I never dared wear it before. I was terrified by memories from my early teens. When I was a teen I overheard some mean girls telling a story that I will never forget. They watched and snickered as a girl sitting in the church pew ahead of them developed a blood stain on the back of her skirt that grew bigger and bigger during the service. They didn’t say who the poor girl was (and I hope they didn’t know her), but they referred to that day as (can you guess it?) Sunday, Bloody Sunday. At the time I didn’t think there was anything more mortifying than that. I never dared wear white after that.
I once wore white jeans to work in NYC and got a surprise period that leaked all the way through, leaving me with the dreaded red blotch. I had a long commute including two walks and a train ride and decided to own it. NYC has seen much worse and I told myself, I dare someone to say something to me. There was something empowering about not cowering away and trying to buy a quick pair of sweats at TJ Maxx. It’s part of life- what can you do!?
Catching up on yesterday’s posts while wearing my first white pants of the year and laughing bc I just got back from the store with my 18-month-old and am already covered in unidentifiable smears and smudges
I wear white pants in defiance … I’ve conceded enough to motherhood. I’m not sacrificing white too. Plus there’s nothing like walking around in spectacular white with 3 little boys. It makes me feel all powerful.
I yesterday I received pale pink pants I’d ordered online. unwrapping them it dawned on me that from afar it might look like I forgot my pants altogether.
I once wore a pale pink sundress and was standing on my balcony waiting for a friend who arrived and said, “I thought you were nude!” Never again.
The one time I wore white pants, I was a senior in high school and it was a big deal for me. Reader, I summoned all my confidence wearing those pants and I didn’t have a lot of confidence to spare.
That day, unbeknownst to me, just so happened to be our drunk driving simulation day…? Yes. That was a thing.
This kid, we’ll call him Dan, was about to step into the golf cart, put on goggles that made you “feel drunk” and drive around in circles. We all know there are no goggles in the world that can make you feel drunk but Dan didn’t drink. We knew this because we threw the parties. He didn’t have his license because he was scared of driving (his words). He was a kind, shy kid who had never been behind the wheel of anything. Queue the foreshadowing.
My good friend, Andrew and I, stepped back because we knew this wouldn’t be good. But Deputy Dave (real name and a real deputy somehow) told us to stand at the line. Like at the line the golf cart drives on.
Reader, I got hit by a golf cart. A bunch of us did. We ran. We swerved. But that golf cart ran faster and swerved harder.
Thankfully, we were all (mostly) okay in the end. Poor Dan felt terrible but it wasn’t his fault (it was Deputy Dave’s) and the real tragedy here… my white pants with the pretty bow, covered in dirt, grass, and blood (my lip was busted pretty badly).
And that was the first and last time I wore white pants.
LOL. Wow, I hope that’s the last time Deputy Dave ran that ‘simulation’! It seems like almost everyone has a story from high school involving adults in charge directing teens to do something that seems completely insane in retrospect but this is next level.
This is bananas! As a high schooler in the ‘90’s, I can attest that there were some bizarre anti-drunk-driving …um, activities? But this is insane!
I love this and all the comments. I’m 37 and still have leaks on my period…thought I’d figure it out by now but life’s funny like that.
Right? 42 and I finally got period underwear from Thinx. I can still manage to leak if I don’t change them often enough but they’ve brought down my “aw dammit” count each menstrual cycle I use them.
I’m the problem. I compulsively wipe my hands on my pants constantly. Blue jeans for me.
I stopped wearing white pants when I was in my early 30’s for all of the reasons expressed in the cartoon. I am now in my 50’s and still do not wear white pants.
This is hilarious! Perfectly timed for our weather. Thank you for featuring Grace’s amazing work.
I spilled coffee all over some beloved wide leg white jeans and a miracle mix of 1/3 blue dawn and 2/3 hydrogen peroxide got it all out!
Funny so true! For sure anything with tomato sauce acts like my clothes are magnitized if they are all white.
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