Luckily, I am also a cheap bastard, so fashion can mystify all it likes and I will spend my money on bicycle fenders.

Wearing bicycle fenders sounds like some very Avant-Garde fashion.

A $64 toaster? It better go to the store and buy its own bread for that money. (And if it does, I totally want one!)

Tight legged jeans and ruffles have no place on my body. But I do like the big shirts from the 80s. Since I'm top-heavy, it's nice to find button-front shirts that don't gape.

::stands in flea's polka dotted corner::

I'll give up my polka dot corset when you pry it off my cold, dead body. All the other stuff can go away except maybe the ruffles

I did wear legwarmers and like them a lot in the 80's, but, in my defense, I was actually taking dance classes at the time, in a cold and drafty auditorium on one of the foggiest hillsides in San Francisco, and I swear I never wore them outside of class.

I swear I never wore them outside of class.

Uh-huh.

ION,

TAMPA - Changing locks on her campaign headquarters and accusing her staff of disloyalty and her own party of spying on her are signs of erratic behavior that some Katherine Harris staff members say has worsened since her father's death.

Harris is restaffing her campaign and will announce new key staff members today, a campaign spokeswoman said Monday.

But in the past 10 days, Harris has:

•Had locks changed and posted a security guard at the door of her campaign headquarters in Tampa and had former staff members escorted in to retrieve their belongings.

•Told a gathering of supporters in Cocoa Beach on Saturday that the Republican Party had "infiltrated" her campaign staff to put "knives in my back."

•Told a reporter that a longtime, trusted political adviser had leaked a story about her staff members quitting, then called back to retract the comments.

•Announced hiring her new staff without identifying them.

Those events come atop previous reversals and contradictions, including her announcement last month that she would spend her inheritance from her father on her campaign, which she changed, saying she would sell her assets.

Former campaign manager Jim Dornan, who left in November, called the most recent events in the campaign "unbelievable."

"It smacks of real paranoia," he said of the headquarters lockout and comments about infiltration. "That campaign staff was so loyal to her, and to be treated like that is absolutely unconscionable."

In interviews over the past few weeks, speaking in confidence, former employees from Harris' congressional and campaign staffs said the trauma of the unexpected death of her father has taken a toll.

"She's in total meltdown. The campaign is in chaos," said a longtime Republican operative who worked closely with Harris until recently. "She hasn't mourned for her father." Like many other former staff members interviewed, that GOP operative didn't want to be quoted by name.

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Bummer about her dad dying. OTOH, she's evil.

I loved 80's fashion in the 80's. I could rock a pair of Sergio Valenti jeans and some leg warmers like nobody's business. For me it's just too soon to go back. I have bad flashbacks to me wearing neon socks and rubber bracelets, poofy ruffled shirts with jeweled pins, and that's just not good.

Totally leg warmers, sorry Gud.

Oh my head.

I've seen the shoes I used to wear with dresses in junior high on a lot of art school girls. Not quite flats, but really low-heeled dress shoes with slightly odd shaped heels. Often white. Like these: [link]

I am totally with kat. Which is why I give a (slight) dispensation to people who didn't do the 80s the first time.

I wish I still had my journal that describes my second-favorite outfit from fifth grade: purple corduroys, purple striped legwarmers, purple sweater with the rainbow applique my grandmother sewed on....

I just bought a black and white polka-dotted blouse the other day. It's part of my effort to expand my wardrobe beyond t-shirts.

What was your first favorite?