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Claudia Kishi's fashion sense


Did anyone else think her taste and style was tacky as hell? Not "cool" like everyone else thought. And I'm mostly talking about books than just the movie. She combined all sorts of crazy colors all in the same outfit...never matching lol. Was that the thing back in the 80s?

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Eww, yes. She and equally tacky Stacey are supposed to be the sophisticated, "glamourous" ones... lol, right. I remember Stacey wearing a pink jumper with jellies and with every outfit Claudia wore one of her dad's 200 shirts with suspenders and fork earrings with palm trees painted on her socks.

Stylish!

I actually think Janine and Mary Anne dressed better, though they were obviously supposed to be seen as the tacky ones.

Though you're dressed in rags, you wear an air of queenly grace

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Ha, ha...actually, I did love Claud's fashion. I do that, too--mixing and matching wild colors, experimenting a little crazily. Some of it works better than others, but it's always fun and worth trying on. I ADORE the book covers, which were what drew me to them in the first place, and I usually LOVED what the girls wore on the covers--especially Claudia, Mallory (unsurprising, since she and I are practically the same person xD), & Dawn. Same thing within the stories. I am a big, big fan of the colorful, acid-bright 80s fashion and eclectic, artistic, cool things the baby-sitters wore (Claudia in particular being the craziest of all.) Honestly, I thought the show's wardrobe manager should have taken more cues from the book covers.


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I have to admit I loved her fashion sense too. But I appreciate it more now than I did then. Back then, I was more into thinking Stacey had the best fashion. But, now I see it was really Claudia all along. She was ahead of her time :)


I guess I'll cut my losses, and turn my tricks at the magic show..

IheartRiloKiley.

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Yeah! She was fearlessly cutting-edge, and I love it. 8-)


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80s & 90s fashion ROCKS.

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It was the 1990s. Wasn't it all tacky?

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Claudia Kishi was my fashion icon. I loved reading the descriptions of her outfit in the books.

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Did anyone else think her taste and style was tacky as hell? Not "cool" like everyone else thought. And I'm mostly talking about books than just the movie. She combined all sorts of crazy colors all in the same outfit...never matching lol. Was that the thing back in the 80s?


Ha! Ten years ago, some friends and I were discussing the BSC books, which we'd read as kids in the 1990s. That evolved into a game about possible titles for new books had the series continued into the new millennium. Two good ones were:

Claudia and Reality TV: Claudia becomes a contestant on What Not to Wear.

Logan Bruno, Wet-Dreamer: Logan enters puberty.


Sorry to say, I couldn't come up with anything funny or clever.

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Well the books were written in the late 80s and early 90s. So that would explain the "tacky"outfits.

Most of them dressed pretty "tacky" not just Claudia.

Kristy was a tomboy who wore boys baggy jeans, oversized shirts, and turtle necks.

And Mary Ann had a lot of outfits that most people who describe as " nerdy school girl outfits".

TBH, I feel like the best dresser in this movie was Dawn.

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