Young Adult books for girls have always had the best, weirdest, most vivid outfit descriptions. Here are 10 we STILL want.
The Baby-Sitters Club, Ann M. Martin
"I changed my mind six times before I decided on this pink shirt I got the last time we went back to New York City to visit friends. Big, bright green and yellow birds were splashed all over it. It was gigantic, so it would be cool. I put it on with a pair of baggy shorts, looped a wide green belt around my middle, and hunted up some jewelry—silver bangle bracelets and a pair of silver earrings shaped like bells that actually ring when they dangle back and forth." - Stacey, The Baby-Sitters Club #8: Boy-Crazy Stacey, 1987
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Nancy Drew, Carolyn Keene
"Titian-haired Nancy was a trim figure in her olive-green knit with matching shoes. Beige accessories and knitting bag completed her costume." - Nancy Drew #5, The Secret at Shadow Ranch, 1931
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Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar
"A buxom, raven-haired, long-legged L'Ecole girl greeted Blair from Nate's bed ... Lexique, whose name was really Lexie, was wearing a lavender-and-mustard-yellow hand-dyed cotton wraparound dress that looked homemade but had actually been purchased at Kirna Zabete for four hundred and fifty dollars, and those ugly flat Pakistani sheep-herder sandals from Barneys that everyone but Blair seemed to think were so cool this year. Lexie's face was makeup-free, and she cradled an acoustic guitar in her skinny arms." - Gossip Girl #7: Nobody Does It Better, 2005
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Little House series, Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Laura smoothed her dress. It was brown calico sprinkled with red flowers. Her hair hung down her back in long, brown braids, and a red ribbon tied their ends together. There was a red ribbon around the crown of her hat too." - By the Shores of Silver Lake, 1939
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