Reader: cdjill. Year: 1989. Location: Normal, Illinois

"This was my senior picture -- not the one that ended up in the yearbook, mind you (that was worse, if you can imagine), but I apparently I liked it well enough that I handed it out to friends because a girl I went to HS with scanned this in and posted it to Facebook. The outfit: Express or The Limited, but I'm pretty sure Express. What you don't see is that the pants are rayon cropped harem pants with a smaller version of the print from the shirt all over them. And yes, that's a red vest. And yes, people used to ask me if I worked at Target. Hardy har har! No... I worked at Taco Bell, thank you very much! The perm was a staple of my "look" from 5th grade through freshman year in college when I got the poodliest perm you can imagine and decided to move on. Not sure why I needed the Cybil Shepherd softening effect in that picture. Did I have some wrinkles the photog was trying to hide, or something? But I'd recognize those crazy eyes anywhere... and so would the boy I practically stalked all through high school. Good times... Good times!"