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Photo Friday

April 18, 2014 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 4 Comments

Bukak Park SeoulThe great thing about being a teenager in the 80s is that there’s a huge chance you look better now than you did back then. At least that’s what I’m telling myself as I flip through old photos from my teenage years.

My father and I traveled to Seoul in the summer of 1987, a year before the Olympics came to that city. Here we are in Bukak Park with a relative of my dad’s student back in Chicago.

But the most startling thing about this photo is that I’m wearing my beloved purple skirt that I bought in Mexico City back in 1982. I was completely devoted to this skirt when I traveled around the world in 1991. It was one of only three changes of clothes I brought on that trip.

I have no idea what happened to that skirt. We may have parted ways in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Hong Kong, or San Francisco. I can’t remember.

Filed Under: Photo Friday Tagged With: My Family's Travels

Comments

  1. chinaelevatorstories says

    April 20, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    “The great thing about being a teenager in the 80s is that there’s a huge chance you look better now than you did back then.”

    This made me laugh.

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    • Susan Blumberg-Kason says

      April 28, 2014 at 9:14 pm

      Thanks so much!

      Reply
  2. Ray 雷毅 says

    April 18, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    That’s great you had the chance travel at a young age.

    Being a teenager in the 90s also means you look better now than back then, at least I hope so 🙂

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    • Susan Blumberg-Kason says

      April 28, 2014 at 9:15 pm

      Yes, totally agree about the 90s and now. Looking back, it seems that 80s fashion spread into the first half of the 90s.

      Reply

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