The LSD Sweater

Initials are very popular and have been for a few years. Now that I'm thinking about it, they were even popular when I was a kid. I remember when I was about thirteen (my most physically attractive stage … not) monogrammed sweaters were all kinds of popular. All the cool kids had one.

The sweaters themselves were pretty plain, most of them being simply a solid color. But the monogram itself could be anything from plain to just darn swanky. It was all in the font of the letters.

Having cool initials helped make your sweater extra fab. My initials at the time, JJW, weren't exactly blah nor were they very exciting. My sister had more exciting initials, LAW, because they spelled a word. I would have loved for my initials to spell a word. Unless that word was ASS, like a boy in my school (true story).

However, on a monogrammed sweater your initials aren't in order, so my LAW sister (on a sweater) became LWA, with the W in the middle with a bigger and slightly fancier than the L and the A.

*side note: Sadly, ASS boy would have still been ASS on a sweater.

By now you have either stopped reading this rather boring post or have started to wonder what my point is and if, for the love of God, I will ever reach it. Stop wondering. My point is that I was buzzing around pinterest today (LOVE pinterest!), taking note that initials are popular. Pretty much any talk of initials brings me back to seventh grade and my friend Lisa's monogrammed sweater.

It was very pretty - a mint green sweater with pink monogrammed initials. Hey, it was 1985. Mint green and pink were pretty rockin' colors together. Like, totally. Lisa's sweater was perfect: great color combo and a she picked at truly awesome font for her initials.

The only flaw in the slaw? When put on a sweater, her initials spelled out LSD.

This fact still amazes me: no one, not Lisa, her mom, nor the monogrammer, noticed that her initials spelled out the drug of choice at the original Woodstock. Not one single person looked at LSD across her chest, scratched their head, and went 'well huh, that ain't right'.

Okay, to be fair, no one noticed until she got to school. Then some key people took notice, called her mom, and demanded to know if this was some type of political, anti-Nancy Regan 'Just Say No' campaign sweater.

Lisa's mom very hotly said, 'No, her sweater isn't a political anything. Relax. She's in seventh grade. Those are her initials. Look it up on the registration forms ... and don't call me at work about crap like this again.'

Lisa's mom may have completely missed the LSD on her daughter's sweater, but she sure didn't miss the opportunity to leave the entire Middle School office speechless.

And that, my friends, is why I think of the LSD sweater whenever I see stuff with initials on it. Pin It Now!