Retro Mom Style
by Zooey Deschanel
DISNEYLAND 1981: (from left) Emily, baby Zooey, and Mary Jo Deschanel. (photo:Caleb Deschanel)
My mom is amazing. Among her many other incredible talents, she is ridiculously chic. When I was growing up, she managed to always dress herself AND her little humans (my big sister and me) very well. I interviewed her today about all of our ensembles on an outing to Disneyland circa 1981.
Zooey: Okay, we are good. We’re recording. I am going to start with the photo of the 3 of us at Disneyland. (I can’t believe she carried me around Disneyland like that all day!)
Mary Jo: Yes.
Zooey: You’re wearing a really cute black turtleneck with a black knee length skirt, burgundy knee socks, a burgundy handbag and brown platform sandals.
Mary Jo: Those sandals… I wore them in a lot of pictures. I had them for many years and they were secure, but they gave me some height.
Zooey: Right… That’s a nice bag. I love that bag.
Mary Jo: I wish I could remember where I got it! I am trying to find something like that now, a nice burgundy bag. I think I got that in Italy.
Zooey: Okay, and do you remember anything about that skirt?
Mary Jo: I think that’s a denim skirt.
Zooey: It doesn’t look denim
Mary Jo: You’re right, it doesn’t look denim when I really look at it. I think that was a skirt I got in France but I think the turtleneck, I got in Italy. I got it in a department store that wasn’t a very nice department store but they had a lot of these really simple, nice turtlenecks and I remember getting several. They lasted a long time.
Zooey: Now, can you tell me what’s the story behind Emily’s outfit? Where’d you get that Wisconsin sweatshirt?
Mary Jo: Dad got that for her. I think he was doing something in Wisconsin and he got that for her there. Her shoes are French, (the brand) Kickers. The skirt was a hand-me-down from a family friend. We had some very nice hand-me-downs from family friends.
Zooey: I notice that she also has very cute knee socks just like you, Mom.
Mary Jo: I tried to, you know, coordinate our outfits.
Zooey: Now, I look like I am wearing sort of like a knit… some pink stuff?
Mary Jo: Yes. And I think that was something I had from Emily. Emily of course had a very extensive wardrobe and of course we bought many more things for you too, but that was a hand-me-down from Emily. We bought it in Italy.
Zooey: Okay, it’s very cute.
Mary Jo: Yes.
Zooey: Now, do you know what prompted you to get so fabulous for Disneyland?
Mary Jo: I don’t think I was trying very hard. I think it was kind of what I just would put on. It was an every day outfit.
Zooey: Well, it looks great.
Mary Jo: Thank you.
Zooey: It seems like the lesson here is: shop in Europe.
Mary Jo: Yes, for clothes…
Zooey: So, shop for food locally, shop for clothes globally.
Mary Jo: Yes!
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07.03.2011 |
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Never underestimate the power of a mom’s fashion sense!
Baby Zooey is angry … lol
the unite of family is mom. The mom define your past and your futur.
Agree! Shop clothes globally. Curious thing, my friends from Germany pefee clothes from Peru, I prefer clothes from Germany, my friends from the States prefer clothes from Center America and my friends from Japan prefer clothes from the States.
p.s.Emily looks so cute and soooo fashion in that pic.
p.s.s. Baby Zooeylooks so adorable as the adult Zooey looks now! Look at that little baby face, how kewwwt!
I meant prefer not pefee
Now that’s fashion. As a baby I always wore corduroy, and was probably wearing corduroy in my visit to Disneyland (Paris) when it rained non-stop.
D’awww
Omgosh there’s just too much cuteness and awesomeness going on here!
The Deschanel ladies; stylish from the cradle! So freakin’ cute!
P.s Can this become like a weekly/monthly kind of thing?!
This is SO freaking adorable. Thanks for sharing. And Ha! Kickers. I had those too in that same era (I’m very close to Emily in age). Those shoes were hugely comfortable (still a big brand here in Belgium! My friend wore them all through high school too). And the knee socks. Man oh man, the memories. Yay for European styles! My mom was also very fashionable (still is) and made sure I was some high class girl at all times too, hitting amusement parks, or wherever, in the most stylish outfits. I love how our mothers gave us good fashion styles right from the getgo. Go to our moms!
hi! I like this interview…..but I just was reading something and found a website called dearphotograph.com (I have no connection to the website just that it’s cool) and u could do that with this photo and it would be so awesome
That is very, VERY cute! And your mom looks a lot like Emily
Oops I was doing it all backwards. Sooo food local and clothes global…got ya. Cute interview by the way ^_^
Love this post, Zooey! How cute.
Adorable to say the least! I feel as though I have worn an outfit similar to Emily’s…
She walked around Disneyland all day in heels? THAT is love.
I knew people used to dress up for air travel, but I had no idea people dressed for Disney! Really fantastic, I love it!
I have far too few European pieces in my wardrobe — must fix that and plan a trip to Disneyland, stat!
Oh my goodness! Super cute!
My dad had all of our old negatives digitized a few year ago and gave me the job of organizing about 10 CD’s worth of family pictures and while I cringed at some of my outfits (OMG I was such an awkward tween!!) I was an adorable pre-tween and my mom was always perfectly dressed. I particularly remember one awesome, flowery dress and some leather sandals she wore to the beach, I believe… I don’t know how moms manage to look elegant in those pictures, even though it obviously looks like they were in a very hot, humid environment. That is SKILL.
Whoa whoa whoa… WISCONSIN SWEATSHIRT??? Awesome. That’s my home state!
You are very lucky! My mom has no fashion sense.
When I see the look of the Deschanel ladies, I can’t help but think that Emily’s baby is going to be so perfectly beautiful.
HEE! That photo is great! Love Ms Emily rocking the knee highs.
Love colorful tights and knee socks thanks to the Deschanels. I wish they’d look that good on me.
Love the knee socks and 80s platforms! Wondering how scary it is that I know where you are at Disneyland? Right in front of It’s A Small World.
Weeee! I’m from Wisconsin! I’m so stoked you guys had a Wisconsin sweatshirt when you were little. Makes me smile = )
Love me some Mary Jo interviews. xoxox
And here I got all excited thinking you were from Wisconsin.
That is a cute picture.
shop for food locally, shop for clothes globally, that’s my new motto. I’m going to get a t-shirt with that on it next time I’m in bangladesh.
Love this! Good to see that style is passed down the family
btw loved your mom in twin peaks.
I love the Wisconsin sweatshirt! It sounds like you haven’t been there, but you should. You would really like Madison and some parts of Milwaukee, I think Death Cab recorded here. Great interview, I like the lesson learned!
oh my gosh i laugh a lot with this interviw to your mom zooey!!!! nice pic btw
hahaha loved this! “Eat locally, shop globally”
I love your interview! Europe seems to have such well made clothing. You’re lucky you had an older sister. I got all my older brother’s hand-me-down clothes when I was growing up and I haaaaated it growing up because I always felt like they were BOY clothes (duh they were) and I wanted better, GIRL clothes haha. But the Deschanel ladies all look so fabulous in this picture! Guess you got some great style lessons growing up
This is so adorable (the photo + interview)!
Effortless style. I wish I had it!
a lot of my favourite vintage pieces in my closet actually came from my mum’s closet when she was younger! zooey, any pieces in your closet that were handed down from your mom?
also, i’m a sucker for kneesocks. good outfits all around!
That’s lovely! <3
I have to say sometimes i steal “vintage pieces” from my grandma :O (She says im crazy) Zooey ur mom is super stylish, love her! Emily looks so cute! …”shop for food locally, shop for clothes globally.” totaly agree! ;D
Okay, everytime I see Mary Jo Deschanel I just think of Twin Peaks and, let me tell you, I get pretty excited.
haha love the convo between you two.. and your mother’s outfit is very stylish, especially because she didn’t try to put it together. love it.
Sweet post. MORE baby pics please..soo cute!
your mother is adorable! i wanna see more baby pix of you Zooey!
thank you so much for sharing something this private with the lot of us! it’s definitely not common to have your idols – haha, yes yes – to be this touchable! makes you reachable, more loveable. loving it!
love this!
can I borrow your moms closet for inspiration? my mother has HORRIBLE taste in fabric let alone style… I’d like to thank every other female in the world for teaching me how to dress!
aw so cute
i’m goig to copy her look for our disneyland visit next week
Such a lovely photo – and a really interesting interview! I think it’s lovely to know the story behind outfits – I know that many of the things that I wore when I was little were hand-knitted by my grandmother, and that makes them all the more precious to me
Even today, many of the things I wear are ‘borrowed’ from my mother’s closet, especially belts and blazers, and some of them she wore when she was my age herself! Lovely article, and thank you for sharing!
Did anyone ever tell you you’d make a good reporter?
well, you know what they say.. like mother like daughter! cute picture,cute family.. cute mini-you!
Emily looks so young!
Love it
