Time's Gone By

puh-leez

if youre gonna talk 80s Anime, theres really only one choice

VOLTRON...

When you absolutely, positively, must defend the universe with animated Japanese cartoons dubbed in Engrish, accept no substitutes.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I imagine someone here has had their parent or grandparents order them clothes and toys from a Sears, Penneys, Wards, or other foot thick catalog. Even into the mid 90s, my grandma would buy me clothes from the JCPenneys Catalog. She would also get me stuff from Lillian Vernon, it would always have my name embroidered on it.

Pennies catalog was a staple around my house during the holidays. The edges of the toys for boys section was all tatty torn by the time the holidays were over - between my brother and I, I think we may have kept pennies afloat in the 80s.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I imagine someone here has had their parent or grandparents order them clothes and toys from a Sears, Penneys, Wards, or other foot thick catalog. Even into the mid 90s, my grandma would buy me clothes from the JCPenneys Catalog. She would also get me stuff from Lillian Vernon, it would always have my name embroidered on it.

My grandmother on my dad's side would get us the absolute worst clothes for Christmas. I mean, one time she gave me some plaid pants. Not them, but not far off:

The blues in these would have been black in that pair. I can still remember that, which gives you an idea of how big a hole that incident burned in my psyche. When I first saw Ralphie in the bunny outfit in 'A Christmas Story', I immediately knew exactly how he felt.