Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Woman
Next week I’ve been invited to visit my nephew Kurt’s school to talk to 120 year three students about Roald Dahl. I’m putting a little presentation together, mostly of photos from when the Snook and I visited Gipsy House in 2000. I thought it would be cute to include a picture of me when I was in third grade, since that’s when my own interest in Dahl began. So I emailed my Mom today and she dug out my school pictures in her basement. This one was taken in the short window between when I got glasses in third grade and when we chopped my hair off (and spiral permed it) in fourth grade. See? I’m naturally a “dishwater blonde,” as we say in Indiana.
Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Woman
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NO. Do not perpetuate that awful phrase used jealously by non-blondes to somehow degrade those who have naturally blonde hair. I have had so many bitchy women refer to me as “dishwater blonde” in a certain tone of voice that I can no longer stand to hear the term.
But the picture’s pretty cute.
Interesting! I didn’t realise it had any negative connotation. It’s listed on Wikipedia as an recognised “sub-category” of blonde. Do people really use it in a mean way??
Cute RT!
I prefer the term “dirty blonde.”
where is the monogram decal on those glasses? did you airbrush it out or something, or was that the next pair? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA……….love ya!
That is a lovely pic. You had a great smile even back then. It’s funny how the specs date a photo. And I’d have called your hair ‘light brown’.
love the photo Kris – you look so cute and fresh
and love the term dishwater blonde too
Aim – That’s the first thing I said too! But they’re not there, even on the high-res one she sent. I seem to remember that we got the stickers when I first got the glasses, so they *should* be there… Maybe I scraped ’em off? This could be fourth grade before I got my hair cut.
It was mostly light brown, M-H, but it did go lighter in the summer. (Especially if I put lemon juice on it…)
Oh, how cruel is eyewear! I had some really iffy frames, which I thought were so good at the time. Horrors.
But other than than, you’re quite the cutie-pie.
Hey, you’re *so* recognisable! Lovely pic.