Rememories of the Mexican Wedding Dress: Then & Now

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March 17, 2010 2 min read 12 Comments

I went to college in the early 80s. It was the era of the Official Preppy Handbook, the era before the Material Girl and Fer Sure, Fer Sure.

You remember it:

Sperry Topsiders,
Button-down Oxfords, (collars up)
Madras plaid shorts, (pink & green)
Lacoste polos
and ribbon belts.

Yeah, I had them all except the plaid shorts. I wore a plaid, flat-pleat skirt instead. (pink & green) Oh, and the topsiders, I had a pair ($45 gasp), but I would trade them off every now and then for a funky pair of cowboy boots. Well, long gone are my preppy days. The only thing to stick was the cowboy boots. That, and one other little item: the Mexican wedding dress. Must have been a Texas thing because I don't remember the Mexican wedding dress being listed in "the" handbook. For sure the boots weren't. We wore them on Fridays before there was such a thing as Casual Friday. So here I am, twenty-five plus years later. My cowboy boot collection has grown and my Mexican wedding dresses don't fit because well, I've grown!

No giggles, please - really, how many of you can still wear your college clothes?

Huh? Be Truthful.

Anyway, I still love Mexican wedding dresses and all of that wonderful ethnic embroidery. So here are a couple of pictures of my Mexican wedding dresses....Then and Now:

My roommate Peggy and I, Baylor University, Spring 1981

sidenote: Peggy was my roommate in college and still is a very special person and friend. I spent an hour on the phone today with her consulting and shopping for cowboy boots online.

See? - the boots do have staying power.

So if you see a couple of 'ol middle-agers running around in cowboy boots and Mexican Wedding dresses - that's us. Same 'ol co-eds just a little more ....never mind, I won't go there. Thanks for the rememories. I love you, Peggy!

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Peggy Thompson

May 16, 2016

Cheryl Ann,

On my! You have made my day, dear friend!

And, I DO love my new Old Gringo boots. It’s amazing how much more “tude” you sport when you wear a good pair of boots!

Thanks for the wonderful influence – style and otherwise -that you have had on this old gringo’s life!

Love,

Peggy June

Ann Debes Watkins

May 16, 2016

OMG Cheryl! Do I remember my mexican dresses? I had an entire wardrobe! In fact, my girlfriends and their moms made a special trip to Nuevo Laredo to haul them back before we went off to college! My favorite mexican dress story was that one day I was walking across Baylor campus (could have been a Friday…not sure…) and I saw my freshman roommate wearing one of MY mexican dresses! (no…she didn’t ask!) Today…I blame the fact that I wore them post-pregnancy for the fact that I can’t wear my college clothes! WHEN are you going to have lunch here in Houston with me (and Shawn)? As you may recall, we were roommates …however, she is NOT the one I caught wearing my mexican dress…she had her own stash!