Thursday, July 2, 2009

Dilara


1995
USA

34 comments:

Lindsay said...

Lol, this reminds me of my classmates taking senior pictures with their Beanie Baby collections in 1999.

Sarah said...

Amazing.

Dr Zibbs said...

The flag in the background makes this.

Anonymous said...

wow. you like to eat candy. What a big surprise.

Organic Meatbag said...

She must be in "special" school, where she and her multiple Pez friends are immune from scorn...

Robin, The Girl Wonder said...

She is one proud pez person... Holy crap who stole her shoes!?!?!

Anonymous said...

Ewww. The dirty white socks are the worst.

Babyjules said...

Promise her anything, but give her a Pez

Yves said...

hummm... PEZ... My childhood.

Suzanne said...

Is this the precursor to becoming a Crazy Cat Lady?

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SM said...

PEZ-MOI!

Laura said...

The dirty white socks in the background are killing me. Soooo funny.

Sarah, Andre and Ari said...

PEZ tastes HORRIBLE.

Anonymous said...

god, where were the girls like this when I was in school!

Angela Wolf said...

Pez really isn't that awesome, but if I have a pack, I can't not eat the entire roll. They must have something addictive in it...

baleen said...

I wonder what her medicine cabinet looks like these days.

Deb said...

She resembles Claire Danes in "My So Called Life". However, Pez is forever cooler than Jared Leto.

alikona said...

Dilara watched the 'PEZ' episode of Seinfeld in 1992, just the beginning of her obsession...

Anonymous said...

I don't eat candy very often, but when I do, I prefer PEZ

Karmander said...

Ah, the pride of ownership. Dance, my minions, DANCE...or better yet, give me candy.

christine said...

She grew up to be absolutely gorgeous.

Anonymous said...

I agree, and I bet she financed her way through college on her Pez collection. Suck it, haters!

BlondeSoul said...

What y'all don't know is that those supposed "Pez" dispensers are actually filled with Meth and this is how she supports her poverty stricken family (and her habit).

Dilara said...

Wow, I am amazed at the comments so I thought I'd answer all of your questions myself....

Actually, my collection has grown to over 1,000 dispensers and is worth a pretty penny. I started collecting in 1993, at the time this photo was taken I had exactly 60.

I took this photo to mock the cheerleaders and jocks who always posed in their uniforms or with their dog. It became kind of a "cult" collector's item my senior year. People from high school still mention it. Kind of an "in your face" to all the cliques.

The socks were clean when we started, but walking around the photographer's studio got them soiled. This was before airbrushing was popular...so what you see is what you get!

I don't eat Pez. After I open a dispesner, I save the roll and I give it out at Halloween.

I'm surprised nobody commented on the awesome unibrow I was sporting!

And thanks for the sweet comment, Christine. I guess I was a late bloomer...

I am not addicted to drugs. I am a well-adjusted adult with a corporate job, married with two cats...ALMOST a crazy cat lady but a few cats shy.

And I met Jared Leto once. He said I looked like somebody he knew but couldn't place it. I said "Claire Danes?" he said no. Absolutely not. Although I did get that comment all through high school. It was during the peak of "My So Called Life"

Love,
The Real Dilara

cancer said...

Beautiful

Molly said...

Dilara, you don't look like Claire Danes, you bear a striking resemblance to author Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight lady!

Josh Blair said...

Where was Dilara in 1995 when I was 12 years old and had a similar PEZ collection?

Anonymous said...

Um, besides the strangeness of the Pez dispensers, which was explained(enough) I think she looks pretty good there..

Anonymous said...

Oh no no no, this is so wrong.

Aust said...

she is really hot, just imagineh how sexy she probably is in todays style?

Anonymous said...

Digging the Nermal PEZ dispenser.

Why did PEZ make a Nermal one. I guess they couldn't make a lasagna dispenser for their Garfield collection, because it's trademarked.

yejades said...

is she turkish? becouse dilara is turkish girl name... :/

rott said...

at first glanc i actually thoghut she looks quite cute.