Pretty in Pink

This movie is probably one of my favorites. It's not because when I was a teen with short red hair I used to get told I looked like Molly Ringwald (which I never really thought I did; it was just the hair & freckles). It's on, probably TBS or one of those channels that do movies on the weekend. Yes, like many, I was a little horrified when she went off with the rich guy instead of the loyal Duckie. But at the same time, I understand that when you've been friends with someone for so long, you might not be able to see them any other way. Besides, maybe after the flings with the folks they met at the prom, Duckie and Molly's character (what was her name again?) got together in college or something. You never know.

But I remember watching it in high school and thinking how cool her clothes were. I just saw a scene where she was wearing this really cool sweater with the kind of sparlky beading everyone is wearing nowadays-- that "vintage" 1950s sort of sweater. LOVED IT! There's a scene where one of the rich girls tells her how ugly her clothes are, and even back when the vintage thing wasn't the coolest in the world, I thought the rich girl was bland boring vanilla and wrong about Molly's clothes (that's the point, though, right? You're supposed to identify with Molly).

Ah, memories. For a while after high school, I worked at an art framing shop. There was a guy who worked there who looked a lot like Duckie. He had a terrible crush on me. It was sort of funny. Of course, at the time, unluckily for the Duckie look alike, like the character in Pretty in Pink, I was involved instead with the wrong guy. (The Evil Ex). But luckily for me, the wrong guy kept me busy until I met the RIGHT one.* :) I love the scene where Duckie lip sincs to Molly's character in the record store. Annie Potts' character as the wiser older woman so gets it when she realizes how hot Duckie is in that scene. But Molly has to go through her rich-guy chasing phase. Even though rich guy was, like almost all of the others, bland and boring.

But still, Molly's clothes are SOOOOO cool in that movie. I wish I could get my claws on some of them. I'll settle for my sort of close creme sweater which I am now going to wear today, in honor of the fabulous eighties teen flick.

*My luckiest day, ever, was the one where I picked him up in a bar.