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Woah. Someone has uploaded The Baby-sitters Club TV show to YouTube so I've been indulging in a little late 80s/early 90s nostalgia. The acting! The theme song! And, best of all, the costumes! Kristy's turtle necks, Dawn's "California Casual" look, and Mary-Anne's frumpy duds are all as I remembered them, but Stacey isn't nearly stylish enough for her New York upbringing (stereotypes FTW!) and Claudia's outfits seem kind of restrained considering what she wore in the books. Check it:

Nobody, but nobody, dresses like Claudia. At least, nobody in our grade. (We used to have a friend, another member of the Baby-sitters Club, named Stacey McGill, who dressed kind of like Claudia. But Stacey moved back to New York, where she used to live. And anyway, trust me, Claudia is unique.) The best way to get this point across is to describe to you what Claudia was wearing at lunch that day. It was her vegetable blouse: an oversized white shirt with a green vegetable print all over it - cabbages and squashes and turnips and stuff. Under the blouse was a very short jean skirt, white stockings, green anklets over the stockings, and lavender sneakers, the kind boys usually wear, with a lot of rubber and big laces and the name of the manufacturer in huge letters on the sides. Wait, I'm not done. Claudia had pulled the hair on one side of her head back with a yellow clip that looked like a poodle. The hair on the other side of her head was hanging in her face. Attached to the one ear you could see was a plastic earring about the size of a jar lid. Awesome.

No joke, I would dress as Claudia Kishi for a costume party in a heartbeat. I kinda wish I hadn't sold my BSC books back in the day.

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[vintagejoy.livejournal.com]

The descriptions of Claudia's outfits were legit one of my favourite parts of these books.

[vintagejoy.livejournal.com]

Also, thanks for the link. I now know what I"m doing for the rest of the afternoon :)

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

I managed two episodes before having to take a break - they haven't aged well - but I'm going to try and watch them all before they get taken down. Hopefully it'll end up being so bad that it's good.

I would go back and read the books just for the descriptions of the clothes. Stacey and Dawn had some good ones but Claudia's stand out the most in my mind. I think she dressed like a watermelon one time? And I think there was a salute to Scotland that involved a lot of tartan and earrings that looked like Scottish terriers. There was definitely an under-the-sea themed outfit.