Wait...What?
I hope you're sitting down for this. If you're anywhere near my demographic this is gonna come as quite a shock to you.
The last time Michael and I watched Nora Ephron's "Sleepless in Seattle" I noticed something very disturbing...
1993
was
a
VERY
LOOOONG
TIME
AGO!!!
How I Found This Out
I didn't learn this by consulting a calendar. I didn't do the math to find out it was TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO!!
I figured it out because watching 'Sleepless in Seattle' felt like watching a flickering old Charlie Chaplin movie, where every detail was sort of familiar, in an ancient-history kind of way.
Times Change
The bowler hats and horse-drawn buggies of a Chaplin movie became cars the size of aircraft carriers, clothes that looked like hand-me-downs from the actors morbidly-obese older siblings, and the 'technology' looked like the early beta rock version of the wheel.
Technology-Free Zones
Okay, so Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is a reporter at the Baltimore Sun. Her desk is covered with all the 'latest and greatest' concepts in technology! ...which included a ginormous monitor with a black screen and green letters.
The newspaper clearly was not yet hooked up to the worldwide web. All Annie could look up were some public records on Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks).
Oh, and, apparently, stalking was a perfectly acceptable pastime then.
Everyone talked on landlines with those spiraling extender cords and... Are you still sitting down?
They wrote letters to each other!
But, Oh Lordy-Lordy; The Clothes!
I remember thinking when the movie came out that Meg Ryan was absolutely adorable in the role...and she still is, as was Tom Hanks. But why are everyone's clothes five sizes too big for them??
Here's the hot outfit Annie Reed elects to wear for her first face-to-face encounter with the guy she's sure is her soul mate:
Seriously, nuns wear sexier outfits than this one. (Sorry for the bad photo...I stole it off the internet.)
Everyone in the movie is dressed in oversized everything...Tom Hanks could invite four other actors in to share his shirts.
Glass Houses
The movie was released in 1993 but they must have started planning the wardrobes for the movie much earlier. I know I wore similarly huge things, but when I looked back in some of my photo albums it seems like by about '91 or '92 I had remembered that a) I had a body and b) I wasn't Amish. But, yeah, I admit it - there was definitely a time when over-sized everything was part of my life too. I was probably a size 4 at the time. Why did I want to pretend I was a 12?
I blame Princess Diana for all this madness. I liked her very much and don't mean to speak ill of the dead...but she did lead a lot of us lemmings over the cliff fashion-wise. Luckily, she too eventually figured out all those big and wide clothes were no one's friend.
Daily Hits of Happy
-I'm blissfully ignorant today, of how bad my current clothes will look to me 27 years from now.
-Constant Comment tea
-The Target Lavender and Eucalyptus candle on my desk
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Annie Reed: "Now that was when people knew how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance...nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was..."
Becky: "A movie! That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie."
-Nora Ephron, 'Sleepless in Seattle'
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"Your education is a dress rehearsal
for a life that is yours to lead."-
Nora Ephron
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Sam Baldwin: "What is 'tiramisu'?"
Jay: "You'll find out."
Sam Baldwin: "Well, what is it?" Jay: "You'll see!"
Sam Baldwin: "Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!"
-Nora Ephron, 'Sleepless in Seattle'
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