WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Thursday Lunch: We Always Dress to Impress

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

This week Bella and Jillian invite you to come sit with them at Thursday Lunch. For lunch today we’re having regretful outfit choices, including but not limited to (accidental) cultural appropriation and “brownfits”. Learn from our mistakes.

If you're listening to Thursday lunch, I'm Radio Free Hillsdale, 1-1.7 FM. I'm Bella. And I'm Jillian. And we only have one question for you. Do you want to sit with us? I recently had a birthday. It's still wearing off. I recently had a birthday and I just sucked helium.

So that we could ask you. Well, yeah, you should say you had the balloon. You didn't really make the connection there. I had a birthday where I turned 22 and now... You're like the chippet. And I love the way that. Helium makes me feel. Why do I feel like that's how your sister sounds like Saylor?

She does not sound like this. It's just like how I'm imagined it. Where did my voice? Hold on. Do people like this? Is this a good bit? Or is this a bad bit? It literally sounds edited.

I'm like shocked how good it sounds. It's real. It's my real voice with helium. Ew. You sound like robot, pervy robot. Wait, why pervy? Because it's like, I don't know. I'm getting a headache.

Hold on. No, I'm fine. Okay. So welcome to Thursday lunch, everybody, where we, let you sit with us for our lunch. Are we eating? Are we not? I'm eating. I'm eating. We're eating. And we tell you stories about our life that you might hear if you would sit with us at Thursday lunch. We're adding a new convention this week where we give you our appetizer, our entree, and then a drink to suck it all down with. And you'll just have to wait to see and find out which is which. Exactly. We're actually going to start with the appetizer story.

Yeah. Do you want to start us off with your appetizer? Yeah. Okay. Nothing crazy. So let's just say that I was just child and I used to go horseback riding although I thought that we owned this horse looking back I don't think we did but like I was like this is my horse it's and her name was tinkerbell of course period so this is not going to be a very long story but um they had like a Halloween event at the ranch the stables where my horse was kept and her name was tickerbell so my parents were like oh okay let's do a little peter pan type outfit right because she's Tinkerbell. Okay.

And they put wings on my horse, by the way. It was awesome. Wait, they wanted you to be Peter Pan? No, I was an Indian. I was actually a Native American Indian. And the great thing about this is my parents did not, they kind of went all out. Like, I had real moccasins. Like, I genuinely think, I think, I think that it was almost like, I think it was authentic.

Like, I feel like it was like more of like, it was less of like child Halloween costume. and more like, oh, like, if I was like role playing like Civil War or something, I don't know. It was really nice. And it was like a leather tunic and it had all this beautiful beading. You didn't cancel, Bella. Yeah, I know. I'm canceling you right now. I didn't choose it.

I was like seven. Were you having face paint? Yeah. And I had like a feather like headband with the feather poking out. I had the tunic. I don't know if I like did a dance or anything. Is this okay to talk about? Definitely.

How old were you? I was like seven. Yeah, exactly. So my parents are getting. canceled. Exactly. You're fine. And I like, and I really like, I remember not even thinking twice about it. And I was like, like, I was very confident. Also, they did that on purpose because there's a million other characters you could address as mermaid, right? Lost Boy. Wendy? Hello? Literally anything. Any of the little kids, Nana, the little dog. Literally, I think my parents were just like, they wanted to get me moccasins anyways. I don't know. I wore those moccasins a long time after that. I'm not going to lie. You think that they dressed you up like a Native American as.

an excuse to buy you moccasins. No, I don't know. But I wore those moccasins a long time. They were nice shoes. Wait, that's awesome. And it was honestly a cool costume, although very like, probably insensitive. Probably, but who's to, we can't say that, I guess. I guess we can't say that.

We shouldn't say anything. Like, I'm trying really hard to remember, like, because when I got to an age where I realized, oh, that's probably actually not okay. I'm trying to, like, recall, like, people's reactions or anything. The only thing I can vaguely remember is the lady. who taught me, like, taught my lessons being like, oh, like she's a little Indian or something. Okay. That's great.

Mine is way less nice. My outfit story? Yeah, well, my next one is a little horrible. Okay, so this is just the appetizer to give you a taste of kind of, just kind of a taste of what my outfits looked like growing up. I went through a major phase from, like, intermediate to middle school. I don't know why this happened. I didn't buy my own clothes. I think this is the result of my mom.

where everything I wore was workout gear. Everything I wore was athletic apparel. Like, a leisure. I was always wearing, like, running shorts with a little tank top. I kind of, I feel like that was a phase for a lot of girls. I definitely liked my neon. I would wear, like, neon highlighter yellow things.

Yeah, okay. And I remember, oh, this actually was very painful for me, walking into my home-ec class in seventh grade. It was seventh grade. This is the same year I fell off my bike and that boy had to save me. Same year. A lot of things happened that year. I imagine you a lot younger in the bike story.

I don't know why. Oh, no, this is seventh grade. Unfortunately, I was too old. And I walk in, I'm wearing neon yellow running shorts, running shoes. I don't run. Oh, I should probably say that. I do not run. Did you do any sport?

No, absolutely not. I played, I did theater. I did musicals. Um, and so, and the shirt I was wearing was mostly gray with highlighter yellow accents. Wait, why do I feel like I had a similar shirt? And I always wore my hair in a low bun. Come on. Oh, gosh.

A low bun. And I went to my home at class and I sat down and she goes, I just have a question for you. And I go, yeah, sure, what's up? She goes, why do you always wear workout clothes if you never work out? Oh, oh, mind you, I had like two friends. I was like, but I unfortunately, the way that I described my middle school experience was like, I was the soul of a girl with a lot of friends in the body of a girl who had none. So I would walk around me like, wait, are you serious?

Like I was fully aware. I was like, I'm supposed to have way more friends than this. And I just didn't. Like, it just didn't happen for me for like two years. And so this was shocking news to me. Well, I moved. Oh, yeah. And so nobody wanted to be my friend because I guess we were 11.

You were the stupid Illinois freak. Exactly. And I looked like that. I was wearing highlighter yellow things. Highlighter yellow and gray is, I remember that combo. Yeah, that's my appetizer story. Just to kind of give you a taste of what we're dealing with for the rest of the time. Go ahead and hit us with your entree, Bella.

Okay, my entree involves a sensitive subject. So trigger warning death. Oh. It is really sad, but, okay, let me just go into this. So we were, so. I knew this family at my school, and it is terrible. They had a baby who had, like, trisomy 18, I think. It was very terrible.

So he did not live very long. But in my town, like, we're a very close-knit community, okay? So they were having a funeral for this baby, like, in the church, in the center of town. And the whole school, like, was excused to go to this, basically. Oh, wow. But you didn't have to. but like we all knew this family and it was terrible. So my mom, like, we were like, okay, like we're going to go to this.

And I think I had one other sister in the school at the time. And I remember my mom had told me the morning of she's like, we're going to go to this funeral. And I was like, do I have to bring a chain of clothes? And she's like, no, just go in your uniform. That's good. That's like what most of the other kids were doing. And I was like, cool.

So I'm not doing that. So I shoved in my backpack, my little outfit, which I'll tell you about in a second. There's no way this is real. Cool, so I'm not doing that. Yeah, so I put my little outfit in my backpack, and my mom came and got my sister and I, and she's like, and I was like, I have to go to the bathroom. She's like, well, we're about to go to the church. And I was like, no, I have to go. And I go in.

This is horrible. Yeah, it sounds horrible. And I have picked out this beautiful lacy red dress. I think I was, it wasn't like promiscuous. I think I was maybe. in fourth or fifth grade. It actually gets better because I was like,

maybe this dress is a little short. Blue leggings underneath the dress, okay? Red dress, blue leggings underneath the dress. And, oh my gosh. I come out, my mom's like, no. I'm like, I'm not taking it off. I literally, I don't know what I thought this would be my time. Like, I really don't know.

Like, what was going on my head was really not okay. So my mom's like, you were going to, and I'm just like, no, we're not. I'm not going to take it off. Like, I want to wear this dress, okay? Like, geez. And she was like, I think she might have said, like, you're going to be embarrassed. Yes.

No. You just don't get it. Like, that's the price of beauty. Like, that was me. But anyways. Wow. So she's like, okay, fine. Like, she was mad at me.

And we walked, so we left the school. And immediately, I'm so embarrassed when we get to this place because everyone's in, like, black or their school uniform. And my, I literally look at my mom. I'm like, tell me, don't know. She's like, no, you chose to wear this? This is why I can't be a mom because I would be so pissed. This is, she warned you. And not only that, but what my choice was so inappropriate. Incredibly inappropriate. Red lacy dress, blue leggings. Like, are you kidding? Oh my gosh. And I literally like, up until like going into the church and seeing how everyone else was dressed, I was feeling it.

This is a recurring theme for you. up until the moment you're like oh yeah that's structure i'm like oh i'm the freak and she made me sit through like as she should because i should have been embarrassed because i don't like i i i'm probably like oh over exaggerated my memory but in my memory everyone's like oh my gosh look at her she's wearing that red and i was standing there and i was so mad at my mom which even though she told me yeah and i was like please let me go to you tell me he began i put it my beautiful back home she's like no we're like in the service like we're stain. And I like sniffled and cried the whole time, which maybe, maybe help my case because

people are like, she's so upset about this funeral that like, you know, we can't get mad at her for what she's wearing. But the whole time it's just like, okay, you what I do? For those of you who are just tuning in, this is Thursday lunch on Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.1.1.7 FM. I'm Gillian. And I'm Bella. And we're talking about our outfits. Outfits. Outfits. Who can outfit the fitter? And who can wear it best? I don't know what to say. there's another part of the story that I'm not 90

I'm not 100% sure actually happened but I almost think I have a memory that because my sister came into the bathroom and changed with me so I think I had her in on this I doubt that her outfit was that much more appropriate she was probably in like second grade but I kind of feel like I was like Gigi like pack an outfit

just in case I would do that to liberty as well yeah and so I'm pretty sure like actually I'm almost certain she at least changed again she probably even at her young age picked a more appropriate dress but I remember her coming in the bathroom with me I was like I'm gonna eat this dress and you are gonna eat

and if I was my mom oh my gosh it would have been so embarrassed yeah me too but I don't have been laughing a little bit yeah I would have been like I have a freak kid because take a picture at my core and I'm saying this

and I hope one day my kids listen to this I hope I have kind of freak kids a little bit I don't want totally normal kids then they're boring I want my kids to do dumb stuff like that to like eat bugs and stuff something like that. I don't want them to wear

I want them to wear wear wear wear them. I want them to dress up like a thing from Susickel and head to a funeral. That's what I want them to do. Likings under a dress were reoccurring theme for me. Or like under like a mid-length skirt. I'm putting leggings under that. And girls who still do that, unlike you're chronically online.

Because people in the real world don't like that. Do that. Are you ready for my entree, Bella? Oh, I'm ready. I'm actually really hungry. Oh, well, get ready to charcutory board because this is more of a pick a pick as you will kind pick as you will is not a phrase um but i kind of liked it anyway this is more of like a sampling of my closet as a kid okay i'm going to start with a key

a key outfit that i wore the year was 2011 no 2010 i think i was in second grade i i definitely growing up always had some sort of sign of oCD like i would if i would clean my my room, I would spend 35 minutes arranging the curtains so that they were exactly centered on the rod. Like, that was kind of my vibe. And so as an outgrowth of that, I color quarter, whoa, color coordinated my closet. And this was not just by clothing, but by hanger. So the hanger had to be the same color as the piece of clothing. Wait, how many colored hangars did you have? I had to get the regular, like, if it was red, it had to be red. It didn't have to be like the exact shade of red. Okay, okay. So the hangers and the clothes were all color coordinated as such. And this sparked

a beautiful idea in me where I was going to start monochroming it. Oh. Now, I'm sure I had some sort of purple outfit, pink outfit, yellow outfit, those kinds. I know for a fact I had a brown outfit because I remember, I remember vividly setting it out on the foot of my bed before going to school multiple times. I mean like it's brown fit day. It's brown fit day. Do you want to know what The brown outfit consisted of. Yeah, let's hear. Corteroy brown leggings. They were corduroy, like, texture.

But they were leggings? Leggings. Oh. They were, like, ribbed and furry, but they were leggings. Brown boots with a brown fuzzy top, like around them. Like a fuzzy topper on the boot. Okay. A brown.

Oh, I'm trying to think of the layers. Okay. A brown turtleneck. a brown t-shirt on top of that turtleneck and then a brown sequined tank top wait so you had three up for layers three shirts and then i had brown hair obviously so i was brown you were the poop girl yeah i really was and i love sometimes when it was cold outside i'd wear my brown coat and my brown earmuffs and i was really brown um that was my brown outfit and my i don't remember my mom ever telling me no I don't remember my mom ever looking at an outfit of mine and being like,

girl, you can't wear that. But this one I do remember her being like, you probably don't want to wear all brown. And me being like, yes, I do. That's actually exactly all that I want right now. I was born with brown hair. I was meant to be brown. What do you think I'm supposed to do? So that was a real outfit I wore.

And the closet was conducive to those sorts of choices, which I think is nice. I also had an outfit that is memorialized forever in a family photo. Christmas Eve. We went to the big church in the city. We would go for the Christmas Eve service. And we're all posed in front of the tree, beautiful family. I am wearing a gold dress from J.C. Penny's. Good start.

And lime green earrings that are so piercing. It's the only thing you can look at in that photo. They were like squishy, spiky balls. The spiky balls. I loved the spiky ball earrings. From Clares. Oh, do you remember? Like, yes.

Okay, did your Claire's have that thing where it was 10 for 10? You could buy 10 things for $10. Oh my gosh, yeah, probably. I was all, I am not joking. Wait, that's what a good deal. I probably spent $200 on that specific thing over time. And I lost every single pair of earrings I ever bought there. I had pigs.

I was big into pigs. In fact, let's actually get into the pigs so that we can better understand me as a girl. I had this for my for in fifth grade for Christmas I got a gift and it was one of those hats it was like a winter hat that was a pig do you remember talking about the like animal hat I didn't have winter as a kid okay so you don't understand and it would go down into gloves and they were all connected ew like what like big animal pig head on top scarf that's like pink and fuzzy into these gloves that's possibly the ugly stuff that's possibly the ugly stuff I can imagine. So you agree with everybody at my elementary school. I did not agree. I received the gift and was... Wait, wait.

Was this part of the pink fit or were you out of that? No, out of that phase, just pig. But I wore it every day. Pig fit. I wore the pig every day. And here's the thing about me, I was so grateful. I loved it. I was like, Mom, thank you so much.

You get me. Oh my gosh. You get me. First day I wore it, I got majorly made fun of. I remember by boys only, no girls. Only boys being like, why are you wearing that? That is incredibly ugly. Please take it off.

It's terrible. And I remember being like, wow, I'm finally being bullied and I get to stand up to the bullies. That was my thought process. I feel like that's a good. There's worse ways to respond to bully. Finally, I get to stand up to the bullies. And I be like, well, I like it. And I'm going to wear it because I like it.

And that's final. That's the kind of thing I would do. Do you know what I would always pair? Oh my gosh. What I would always pair that little pig hat with? knee-high converse boots you had knee-high converse boots I wore them every day I bought them for $12 at Savers

you were dressed like a YouTuber or something like what wow yeah probably actually but it was just an expression of who I was I loved those converse boots and I wore them all the time I wore them all the time I don't like it those were core parts of my wardrobe going up and then I'm not joking that year fifth grade into the next year sixth grade was the transformation to athletic year so i went from pig hat knee high converse to like people have to take me seriously i'm going into middle school i need to be wearing serious

stuff athletic wear i have to be athletic now and people are going to take me seriously so i i did away with the pig hat and i adopted my true being and then i was made fun of the low bun you know oh the low bun was big and then and then i got made fun of for that too so i don't actually know the in-between in high school I oh high school I just wore a low ponytail not a bun low ponytail like every day and I wore a lot of things that I would never wear now and then junior year of high school I was like I think I have to be a little bit more desirable to other people I think I think I can't actually just live for the sake of my own expression I think I actually do have to there has to be a level of caring about what other people think are you ready to wash it all down with a big drink

I mean, I'm really thirsty now, guys. Can I some of your water? Okay, we can't put... We have to still drink at all. You're going to go first with your big drink. What would you... If you were going to make this song into a drink, though, what would you call it? Oh, that is such a good idea.

Thank you. Okay. My song of the week, my drink is... She's gone dance on by disclosure. I had a big disclosure phase, and recently I saw on Instagram, someone who I, who is like a friend of my cousin who I've never met before. And she posted to this song, and I was like, wait, this is the most awesome song ever. And it's really fun.

It's really dancing. It's by disclosure. And it's like, I'm like, in the morning, I like to listen to happy, fun, jumpy music. Perfect. So that's what I was doing. And I think this song would probably be like ice cold, really orange fanta. Yes. I was thinking like some sort of sparkly soda.

Yeah, exactly. But sparkly including fruity. Yes. Love it. Yes. Okay, perfect. Your turn. Your drink.

I'm going to tell you my drink first and I'll tell you my drink first and I'll tell you the song. The drink is definitely like a warm. vanilla chai latte. Oh. And it feels like you're drinking it on the porch. Wait, I love how we went two different ways. But I'm both places. But mine's at night.

You drink it at night. Mine's like lunch for sure. Okay. Or in the morning, I think you said. It's Andromeda by Ryan Beattie. I don't know it. It's just a song. It's like so beautiful.

It's about the stars. It's not really about the stars, but obviously Andromeda is a galaxy. And it's like, he has a very like symphonic, instrumental sound to him. where he's like, like, everything swells, and, like, his voice is beautiful, magic, wonderful. And it just feels like drinking a chitee latte as I walked to class. And you're nice and warm and cozy?

Yes, I'm like. And your brown boots? My brown boots. Brown coat? Yep. Turtleneck. Should I wear my brown fit? You should actually get that outfit, yeah.

Okay, I can do that. Okay. Thank you so much to everybody who tuned in to Thursday lunch this week. We hope you ate good. We hope you are full to the brim. And quenched of your thirst. We hope you take a nice post-lunch nap after this. And listen to it.

and listen to her music. Listen to our music and tell us if you like it. And tell us and email us if you like it. Well, that was Thursday lunch on Radio Freehillsale, 101.1.7 FM. This is Bella. This is Jillian. And we will see you next week.

And you better be there because I'm counting on it. Okay, bye.