Embarrassing Moments

[marilynfan]

Oh dear!

I have plenty of these!lol
- I was at a convention centre and there were these round vents around the outside of the room right up close to the wall. The walls were made of glass so I walked right up close to look at the view and on the way back I walked over a vent and voom! my skirt flew rightr up into my face.

- I also have a story about ice skating, It was my first time ice skating and I had just managed to get the hang of it and pick up speed when i went to talk to some of my friends. I lost my footing on the way over and ended up practically sitting on two of my male friends feet, they even had to help me up! but in hind sight i can laugh about it (at least i was wearing pants!)

another situation which is embarrassing moments just waiting to happen is boats! I went whale watching once and I was wearing quite a nice white pleated wrap around skirt and my hair loose. my hair was blowing in my eyes and I when i came to the a staircase i needed to hold onto the rail to be balanced. as soon as i stood on the first step my skirt was going every where so i had one hand on the railing one hand holding down my skirt and know idea where i was going because i had hair in my eyes. I have leart now to put my hair up and not wear skirts on boats!

 

[Elle]

Just reading these stories makes me have a terrible day!

Which reminds me, I was walking out of a store one bright and beautiful morning when the grips on my stockings decided to go kaput and come on down like it was on the Price Is Right. This would have been okay with my car being parked close--but, (as all embarassing moments have) a police officer was walking my way.

The stockings fell down faster than I could say "someone shoot me" and the officer giggled and wished me a wonderful morning.

 

[olive bleu]

The awful thing about embarassing moments is that no matter how hard you try, that will not get out of your head..ever. I have another embarrasing moment that does not involve clothing or the losing thereof...when i was about 13, a friend of mine who was a couple years older came to my house and brought with her a book of jokes that belonged to her brother.She left it behind and the next day i was lying about reading when i found a joke that i thought was particularly funny.I walked into the kitchen to read it to my mother. My extremely conservative, very prim and proper-church going mother.She stood there with her hands in the dishwater and listened as i read the joke, however as soon as the punch line came out of my mouth, i realized that i had misinterpreted the joke completely, and only in that moment did i realize that i had just told my mother a dirty joke!!

 

[dollydaydream]

haha! I have a similar kind of memory. I was about 6 or 7, heck, possibly younger. My mum was in the kitchen (I remember it was right afer Neighbours), and I strolled into the room, plonked myself in a chair and sighed 'bloody hell, I'm knackered'. My mum went mad. I have no idea where I had got it from. At least I used it in the correct context I guess lol

 

[Ada Veen]

It's quite comforting to know that these things happen to everyone!

A couple of years back I managed to get an internship on a magazine I had wanted to work at for ages. When I arrived on my first day I was incredibly nervous, and after sitting in the office waiting to be seen for a few minutes I was like "I'm gonna need to go to the toilet!" I was wearing a pair of high waisted, fitted trousers and when I went to zip them up, the zip was bust. I just couldn't get it up for the life of me. I was in there for ages, and they must have been thinking 'where has this girl gone??' Then I had to come out, red faced, clutching my trousers and introduce myself to the entire (mixed-sex) office with the words "um.... my trousers are broken".

I also always have the falling-down hold-ups problem. those things are evil.

 

[Real Swell Gal]

I don't know any woman vintage or modern that has not experienced some type of mishap with undergarments.
I can't believe I missed this thread.

One day while my daughter and I wear out shopping we stopped in to a place to eat.
I was wearing a tank top with spaghetti straps and one broke.
I just kinda sat there holdong my top up and ate a little more quickly before going straight home.
My daughter laughed her little head off the whole time.

 

[Ada Veen]

oooooh! I just remembered the most embarrassing thing EVER. I was in the changing rooms of topshop, and I had convinced myself I could fit into this cute size 8 top that was in the sales, when at this point in my life I was more like a 10. Well, I got it on, and it looked a bit too tight, so I went to pull it off, and it got stuck. I was stuck with my arms over my head, wedged in the top, with it completely over my face, just in my pants with bare breasts. Completely stuck. I had to leave the cubicle, wonder blindly (my head was completely inside the top, I couldn't see a thing) toward the sound of voices, flail into someone else's cubicle and go (muffled voice) "scuse me, can you help me out of this top?" I COULD HAVE DIED. lol lol lol

 

[Miss Dottie]

This isn't my story, but it's my "friend".

My friend had just gotten a promotion which entailed going on a business trip to New York to meet new people in her field at a convention and build relationships with key people.

My friend was wearing a new suit that included a long skirt with it. She was about to get on the escalator when she tripped and fell down it. The whole two stories of it--only to hit the bottom and have her skirt get stuck in the escalator and was pulled up to her waist showing her knickers and hose to everyone.

They had to call in firemen to remove the plate from the escalator three hours later to free her. Needless to say the back of her dress was shredded into oily thin strips of fabric. And was the talk of the convention.

 

[Darhling]

It was my first real job and the annual christmas gala had come around. I had found this amazing black dress, that came completely up to my collarbones but was very low cut in the back, two very thin straps around my arms to keep it up. I was looking and feeling fabulous, dancing with a great friend I had gotten at this new job and we were the only ones on the dancefloor. It should be said, the backstory here is as with any very large compay there was a lot of gossip and everybody thought my friend and I were an item, we were not, but we didn't mind fuelling peoples imagination for fun.

So, back to the dance floor, he spins me out fast and on the way 'in' suddenly one strap snaps and he saw it before I felt it, because his free hand lands very promptly on top of my 'girl' holding the fabric from not falling down further. Nothing was exposed though.

He quickly escorted me out to the coatroom where they found a safety pin I could use.

The next manday at work was buzzing with talk about us..

 

[dollydaydream]

This isn't my story, but it's my "friend".

My friend had just gotten a promotion which entailed going on a business trip to New York to meet new people in her field at a convention and build relationships with key people.

My friend was wearing a new suit that included a long skirt with it. She was about to get on the escalator when she tripped and fell down it. The whole two stories of it--only to hit the bottom and have her skirt get stuck in the escalator and was pulled up to her waist showing her knickers and hose to everyone.

They had to call in firemen to remove the plate from the escalator three hours later to free her. Needless to say the back of her dress was shredded into oily thin strips of fabric. And was the talk of the convention.

Good Lord!! Was she hurt? I saw a lady fall down the escalator at the train station last week. It was awful, he bags kept rolling down, then being carried up a bit, then roling down...on top of her. Absolutely horrific.

 

[olive bleu]

This isn't my story, but it's my "friend".

My friend had just gotten a promotion which entailed going on a business trip to New York to meet new people in her field at a convention and build relationships with key people.

My friend was wearing a new suit that included a long skirt with it. She was about to get on the escalator when she tripped and fell down it. The whole two stories of it--only to hit the bottom and have her skirt get stuck in the escalator and was pulled up to her waist showing her knickers and hose to everyone.

They had to call in firemen to remove the plate from the escalator three hours later to free her. Needless to say the back of her dress was shredded into oily thin strips of fabric. And was the talk of the convention.

Oh my gosh..that is HORRIBLE!!! I very nearly did that last week! I was wearing a full skirt and my favourite mary Janes, which really i should have disgarded ages ago as they are so stretched they are way too loose on my feet...anyway, i was hurrying down the escalator to go grab a coffee in the last 30 seconds of my coffee break, when i tripped and lunged forward.Luckily i grabbed onto the rail and manage to pull myself back from the abyss just in the nick of time!! But i had this image of myself hanging upside down on the escalator with my skirt up over my head.That horrible scene played in my head like a bad movie for hours after that!! Just reading this story made me feel sick again!At the time i thought there is nothing that could happen that would be worse than that,and now that i hear it has actually happened to someone i believe it!!

 

[=ritzy=]

Golly!! I fell down on my way to work a few days ago..i was walking down the hill and my sandals were way to slippery and I slipped and feel right on my butt.... I had some iced water with me and it rolled down the hill..a bunch of kids from middle school where coming up the hill and I just blushed and got up and walked like nothing..bohooo!! I know it is not as bad as the gal who rolled down the stairs but it sure was a very embarrasing moment....

 

[miss_elise]

when i was backpacking, i was leaving my hostel one morning with my huge pack on my back, when i twisted my knee and tumbled down the stair...i was having a little difficulty getting up (because of said huge pack on my back) - it was kind of like when you turn a turtle over on their back and they can't get up again,- and at the same time a whole bunch of school kids who were staying in the hostel tramped down the stairs... so i just lay there on my back, whilst they all tramped past me...not one of them offered to help...little so and so's...

 

[Lillemor]

I've never been to Melbourne and I don't know what kind of metropol it is but city zombies really fascinate me. I mean, how they can just walk along like parts of a conveyor belt production and not see or notice anything.

At Comm. Coll. I suddenly noticed an old high school friend and was waving madly at her. My whole body was in movement and then...my glasses fell out of the frames!

It was my first day at work in Aldi, Hillerød 10 years ago. I had stopped cardboard crushing machine because as I'd been leaning in over it my glasses fell out of my frames (different glasses, different frames from the first incident) and into the machine. My boss walked out into the stock room and asked me what the hell I was doing with half my body leaning down into the machine?! It was so embarrassing to have to explain that I'd lost my glasses, seeing as the man could obviously see that I was still wearing my frames!

Neither pair of glasses were vintage but they were relatively old because I don't tend to change frames as often as others do.

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

I was out and about yesterday, wearing one of those multi-gore trumpet skirts (very flared at the bottom and fitted at the top). There was a bit of wind, and it seemed like everywhere I went, that thing flew up! Coming down stairs, walking into stores - thank goodness for fitted linings!

Originally posted by Ada Veen:
oooooh! I just remembered the most embarrassing thing EVER. I was in the changing rooms of topshop, and I had convinced myself I could fit into this cute size 8 top that was in the sales, when at this point in my life I was more like a 10. Well, I got it on, and it looked a bit too tight, so I went to pull it off, and it got stuck. I was stuck with my arms over my head, wedged in the top, with it completely over my face, just in my pants with bare breasts. Completely stuck. I had to leave the cubicle, wonder blindly (my head was completely inside the top, I couldn't see a thing) toward the sound of voices, flail into someone else's cubicle and go (muffled voice) "scuse me, can you help me out of this top?" I COULD HAVE DIED.

Oh. My. You poor thing! That is one of my worst nightmares come true. Thankfully, so far I've managed to deal with all such situations in the privacy of my own fitting room, but I've had horrible moments of panic where I think, "I'm stuck. I'll never make it out of here!" It seems to happen most often in those little cheap shops with the tiny fitting rooms. It's the cut, not just the size, I think.

Now excuse me while I laugh hysterically, but empathetically. lol lol

 

[dollydaydream]

I was out and about yesterday, wearing one of those multi-gore trumpet skirts (very flared at the bottom and fitted at the top). There was a bit of wind, and it seemed like everywhere I went, that thing flew up! Coming down stairs, walking into stores - thank goodness for fitted linings!



Oh. My. You poor thing! That is one of my worst nightmares come true. Thankfully, so far I've managed to deal with all such situations in the privacy of my own fitting room, but I've had horrible moments of panic where I think, "I'm stuck. I'll never make it out of here!" It seems to happen most often in those little cheap shops with the tiny fitting rooms. It's the cut, not just the size, I think.

Now excuse me while I laugh hysterically, but empathetically. lol lol

I often get stuck in clothing...should anyone ever be in a changing room in the West Midlands and the girl next door is bumping around an awful lot...it's probably me

 

[The Shirt]

I'm a big calf girl. At the insistance of a well meaning clerk who believed a particular boot had enough stretch, I tried a pair on. They had to cut it off. Thank god I didn't have to pay for it. Getting stuck in clothes is mortifying. But Ada - that moment is priceless. I bet you wear bras now when shopping though. Heehee.

 

[dollydaydream]

AGH! My mum just told me a falling over related story; When at school, obviously eager to get to the next class, she tool a tumble and cracked her chin on the floor

She got out of the next few days classes & had a bruise that covered the whole of the bottom of her face. Ouch!!

She has a little dent in her chin now to remind her of that day.

 

[Miss 1929]

Miss 1929's Handy Tip o The Day!

I often get stuck in clothing...should anyone ever be in a changing room in the West Midlands and the girl next door is bumping around an awful lot...it's probably me

When this happens, if you bend over at the waist so your body is parallel to the floor, your shoulders get two inches closer to each other and off it comes. Otherwise know as "How to get that cow out of the delicate beaded dress without tearing it" that I learned in the vintage clothing biz...

Not that any of us are cows!!! Never never never!

 

[Hannahlmatt]

My older cousin was working as a counselor at a camp during the late '70s. She had this crush on a guy counselor. Her outfit had some very cute, very high, wood heels. The lodge at the camp had slick wood stairs.... Well..... She tripped down two flights of stairs.