Kathy said around breakfast time on July 13, 2007
I inadvertently bought a mumu. I didn’t mean for that to happen but it couldn’t be helped. Luckily I haven’t completely lost my mind and ordered something like this from a newspaper ad, but in cruising Target for a few things I saw eternal comfort out of the corner of my eye. Full length, light and soft… it beckoned to me from the housewares section.
It’s hot. I share my time in the stifling heat of Atlanta and in the Florida summer weather where 85 is code for “swamp ass” and 95 is code for “sit in a baby pool with ice cubes or die”. Around the house, jeans just don’t cut it and I don’t do shorts. Trust me the world is better off without repeated access to my thighs. So here I am in my long thin soft comfy dress… junk to the wind.
I only ask that someone stage an intervention if I start wearing it to the grocery store, with pink foam curlers in my hair while a Virginia Slim dangles from my hot pink lip.
from your moms.
I can see it now. You behind the wheel of a pickup truck, w/gun rack of course, truck dirtier than hell, you in curlers and the mumu, and you don’t even bother to take the cigarette from your mouth while you tell the state trooper, who pulled you over for speedinging, to kiss your ass.
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy.
from your moms.
Okay, I just looked at the URL. That’s a regular dress, that ain’t no mumu. It’s a, what do they call it?… a house dress.
from Clive Owen's Bedroom
Cocktail: Mojito
Girl, you are my long-lost twin. I don’t do jeans in this dank heat and humidity and I don’t do shorts ever (cue Bootylicious by Destiny’s Child). I live at Target and almost bought that dress on Monday. Instead, I walked out with my 9,887,026,486th wrap dress because I’m nothing if not adventurous.
from your moms.
Don’t think of it as a mumu. Think of it as a mu-woohoo!
I missed it on my regularly thrice weekly trip to Target. Must go back.
I’ve been sporting full-on 1940s aprons around the house. We’d make a good pair.
from Boston
Not at all related to this post - but - if you are anywhere near a gap kids or baby gap, the pajamas that are usually 22.50 are marked down to 6.97! I picked like 8 pairs for Charlotte. They go up to size 5t - just fyi in case you’re still looking for 100% cotton pjs for Reilly. I had a pair or two that I got as gifts and they’re good quality and wash and dry really well.
And I like that muumuu!
from Chicago
*hangs head in white-trash shame*
I LIKE that dress.
But ya gotta wear the pink fuzzy slippers to really rock it.
from hell
My mom thought mumus were god’s gift to fashion. So when I was 16ish she thought that I should wear one.
Let’s just say that teens should not wear mumus if they ever want to get some.