My Varsity Jacket & 99 Red Balloons.

When I saw varsity jackets were a trend this fall, I remembered the one I had in the mid 80’s.  I thought Nena in the 99 Red Balloons video looked so cool walking across some field after the apocalypse in her varsity jacket, so I got one at the mall the next year (they were a trend then too).  Years later I saw the video again and realized it wasn’t actually a varsity jacket, it was more like a leather vest over a sweatshirt, but it appeared we did have the same hairstyle.   I still felt really cool back then. 

Jacket: Brooks, in Eastland Mall in Evansville, around 1985.  I liked that the jacket was coincidentally my high school’s colors, and the sleeves were leather.

“Paris” brooch: a mall store in Bloomington, IN where I went to college.

Shirt: the Sycamore Shop in Eastland Mall.

Fiorucci jeans: a boutique in Cincinatti, purchased during a youth group trip to Kings Island.  These jeans were awesome.  They were cropped, with two red ribbons printed with “Fiorucci” hanging off the hip.

Gold hoop earrings: ?

This photo was taken by Gretchen in downtown Bloomington around 1986, my sophomore year of college.