Either we have a mutant teen using her shrink-vision to eliminate the competition, or an unexpected side-effect of Trevira was uncontrollable growth spurts.

There does not appear to be anything brushed, denim, western or jean-like about those things, but “super flare” seems accurate.

The “Lemon Frog Shop” was no doubt the product of much focus testing and fine-tuning; it was groovy and cute, mod and reassuringly girly. It reminded kids that it was okay to be a lemon frog. Sometimes we all feel like a lemon frog. But yellow is beautiful, sister. It's Donny Osmond's favorite color.

The shoes, in case you can’t read the fine print, are soled with “Searofoam.” I recall that substance – it was a strange thick plastic not known for excessive pliability; I think it was later used on the exterior of the Space Shuttle. Eventually it would develop a crack, and you’d spend your junior high afternoon picking out chunks. That was the intention, probably; they knew you were so fully of energy and hormones you'd pick your face or your nose, so they concentrated all your obsessive destructive power on the soles of your shoes.