Love this! And I can so relate to concert shirts I can't believe I lost along the way. (Note to younger readers--save some of your favorites for your later years.) I also enjoyed the "many versions of Melissa section"--great stuff.
If only our teenage selves understood that everything we did back then and took for granted, would be worth 1000x more to the other people our age when we got older. And yeah, concerts and the shirts were each $6 (for a 2-3 band bill) back then.
Ahhh I felt all of this so much. I cut the tee from my first Oasis concert (1997, Philadelphia) to include it in a precious t-shirt quilt I have yet to actually sew together. When it came time for the reunion tour last year I felt a weird regret for the exact same reason: I wanted to be able to wear that almost-thirty-year-old ringer tee to the show, perhaps to impress the one person who might recognize it? Or maybe just more for my own nostalgia. I spent a few days feeling a surprisingly strong yearning for the whole piece.
In the end I wore wide leg jeans, a lil crop top, and an oversized flannel. Weirdly similar to how I might have dressed for my first Oasis concert, but so far removed that all those things are now coming back into style. Which is its own statement I guess 😂
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Love this! And I can so relate to concert shirts I can't believe I lost along the way. (Note to younger readers--save some of your favorites for your later years.) I also enjoyed the "many versions of Melissa section"--great stuff.
Considering I still have a Blur t-shirt from a 1997 concert I went to, this is clearly my type of post.
If only our teenage selves understood that everything we did back then and took for granted, would be worth 1000x more to the other people our age when we got older. And yeah, concerts and the shirts were each $6 (for a 2-3 band bill) back then.
Ahhh I felt all of this so much. I cut the tee from my first Oasis concert (1997, Philadelphia) to include it in a precious t-shirt quilt I have yet to actually sew together. When it came time for the reunion tour last year I felt a weird regret for the exact same reason: I wanted to be able to wear that almost-thirty-year-old ringer tee to the show, perhaps to impress the one person who might recognize it? Or maybe just more for my own nostalgia. I spent a few days feeling a surprisingly strong yearning for the whole piece.
In the end I wore wide leg jeans, a lil crop top, and an oversized flannel. Weirdly similar to how I might have dressed for my first Oasis concert, but so far removed that all those things are now coming back into style. Which is its own statement I guess 😂