I said it before, and I'll say it again, I think it's going to be the Lilly sleeper item of the season and I can NOT wait to get my Chrissy Snow on with the Mira Jumpsuit...
P.Y.G. (pink yellow green) makes this Mara Hoffman bikini passably preppy. Post P90Xhaustion bod, natch...
Dr. Babe will have a heart attack but, I am thinking of slipping a tube of that famous orange gelée into my beach bag this summer for ole times sake. SPF 4? Pshaw...
Making some room next to the Kiehls bottles for this blast from the past. One wiff and and all the memories of OP's, Lacostes and teenage angst'll come flooding back...
Chrissy Snow may have gotten all the glory but it's Mrs. Roper that's really near and dear to my bohemian heart. I can already see Babe doing his "groovy arms" impersonation when I break out this Jules Reid flowing kimono...
Omg did we go through this Indian Earth Bronzer freshman year. One bottle, like eight girls and one very orange sink. Throw in some Revlon Pink Zinc lipstick, some Bread playing on the turn table and it's the eighties aaallll over again...
LeSportsac resurrected by Lilly P??? A collision of hipness!
Kindness of loyal reader Janine for the heads up on the LeSportsac reinvention. May be just the bag for toting my Bain de Soleil orange gelée to the beach in. Also, helps to keep one foot in the preppy door when trotting my new bikini across the dune..XXOO
Did you ever use Sun In? I can still picture me spraying that crap on and lying in the sun. And very few things take me back like the smell of Herbel Essence Shampoo. Remember the see thru bottle with the green shampoo? I find a lot of these old products at Vermont Country Store catalog. It's like a trip down memory lane. Good times.
ReplyDeleteI am so going to find some Bain de Soleil for our trip. Thanks for the reminder. After three day of conditioning in the sun with a higher SPF I will sneak out the orange gelee. Best tan ever with this stuff.
ReplyDeleteGYHST shampoo...I need to smell this again! Too funny.
ReplyDeleteGreat memories! I used to LOVE my Indian Earth. I wonder where you can buy it now.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome post!!! I love your taste! Very curious about the Lilly/ LeSportSac collaboration :) XOXO
ReplyDeleteYou 'unearthed' Jen's Earth bronzer, Allie! What an '80s excavation. Now if we could just find it's most committed wearer.
ReplyDeleteTo add to the scent memories: Ralph Lauren "Lauren' perfume, Cacharel Anais Anais and of course, Chanel Cristalle. Fun flashback post! xo
Indian Earth! OMG I lovvveeeedddd Indian Earth.
ReplyDeleteI remember begging my mom to buy GYHST and Body on Tap shampoo.
Thanks for the memories......
GeeYHSTerrific - I used to prop that bottle on my dressing table after washing my hair & dream of my bedroom being decorated to match the hot pink, PeterMax-ish bottle - Oooo, the flowery, spicy smell makes me weep......in a good way.
ReplyDeleteThen there's "Agree" shampoo - in the light green bottle - not nearly as fab looking as GYHST, but that SMELL transports me - mid-70's & all things teen, that smell is Summer'78, yuuuummmmm! ! !
Flex shampoo, by Revlon - another MmmmMmmm, GOOD! ! !
I practiced on myself, using my aunt's IndianEarth Bronzer (while also using her very cool globe/ball mirror ...hard to describe). She is a couple years older & let me play in her stuff ALL the time....as a matter of fact, it was HER Agree shampoo I liberally bubbled up with.....
Now that BdeS song is stuck in my head:
"Bain de Soleil fo' thaa Saaaaan Tro-paaaaaaaay taaaaan...."
"Bain de Soleil fo' thaa Saaaan Tro-Paaaaaaay Taaaaan...." "Bain de Soleil fo' thaa Saaaan......."
I'll stop now.
Also in the spirit--Lemon Up shampoo--STILL available at the Vermont Country Store (along with those tres 70s-80s Lanz of Salzburg nighties)...
ReplyDeleteDear Allie,
ReplyDeleteDo you remember those plastic oval hair clips with the sliding bar in the middle? To be worn with a shetland sweater of course. I remember when Le Sportsac had a store in Water Tower Place and feeling that I had to have one in every color. I also remember my mom wanting to kill me for swiping her Indian Earth jar and then accidently dropping it on the white tile in the bathroom. Thanks for the blast from the past, Denise
OMG, Indian Earth Bronzer!! I laughed out loud when I read that. I sooo remember doing the same thing in college with friends. Yep, we looked like Umpa Lumpas.
ReplyDeleteMy mom had that Earth bronzer when I was a kid and I totally turned myself into an Oompa Loompa once.. after seeing the pictures, I was so afraid of ALL bronzers that I never started to use bronzer again until about 3 years ago! hahahaha
ReplyDeleteI remember Herbal Essence - yummy scent.
ReplyDeleteah, bain de soleil, now that takes me back....once we were old enough for my parents to stop slathering on the sea and ski, we went right to the b de s (and baby oii - yikes!).
ReplyDeletetp&g YES!!! Sun In and I looked like a gosh darned golden retriever!!!
ReplyDeleteBody on Tap? remember the beer shampoo! Wash your hair in it then slather on the Love's Baby Soft or the Jean Nate!! (Natay?!)
Love the gelee spf 4 BDS... reminds me of my summers in Cannes with my Jolie Grandmere!
Fun, fun fun post!
Great Post!! I hate to even admit this. It is horrifying to my ears now, but . . .
ReplyDeleteBaby Oil + Iodine
Enough Said.
xoxo
Baby Oil + Iodine + 45 minutes on each side...I timed myself.
ReplyDeleteYikes, I, too used baby oil as my non-spf back in the day.
ReplyDeleteMany of the items you listed can be found through the Vermont Country Store. They have a great catalogue to look through. Memories. . . . .
Great post. Bring back the 80s! Crank up some Flock of Seagulls! Bring back Ronnie Reagan.
ReplyDeleteBut as a guy, perhaps we should not bring back OP shorts for guys.
Chrissy Snow - good.
Jack Tripper - no.
come and know on my door, love it! And the sleep wear is divine, I can't wait to get stateside to visit a shop and leave with bags of goodies.
ReplyDeleteoh dear heavens above, the pain killers have kicked in...did I say sleepwear? I meant jumpsuit. (did I get away with my faux pas?) wink wink, and looking like a beat root.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing like Bain de Soleil. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteAnd as the other "Anonymous" poster wrote, "Bring back Ronnie Reagan"! (Senior. Decidedly not Junior).
still use Bain de Soleil... over my 50spf unscented baby blanket, just for the smell!! and Indian Earth..a foundation! an eyeshadow! a lipstick!
ReplyDeleteWho is that woman in the bikini?
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Who is that woman in the bikini?
Who is that woman in the bikini?
Who is that woman in the bikini?
Who is that woman in the bikini?