U.S. teacher wears same outfit for yearbook photo 40 years in a row…
Genna Ash
25 Oct 2016
You know when you find that one, perfect outfit that suits virtually any occasion and totally makes you look fine?!
Don’t you just love it when that happens…
Because Dale Irby, a PE teaching legend from Prestonwood Elementary in Richardson, USA, definitely found his signature look – and what may have started as a funny wardrobe mishap, wound up as tradition that lasted 40 years!
“I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and I realised I had worn the very same thing as the first year,” he told BoredPanda, but it was actually Irby’s wife who made light of the situation, noting how hilarious it was that he’d managed to sport the same polyester shirt and coffee-coloured vest on the exact same day in 1974 as he had in 1973.
In fact, Dale’s wife thought it was such a funny coincidence, she even dared her husband to wear the same thing for his picture the following year. And so a tradition was born…
“After five pictures,” he said, “it was like: “Why stop?””
And boy, Dale are we glad you didn’t…
1973 – 1974
1975 – 1976
1977 – 1978
1979 – 1980
1981 – 1982
1983 – 1984
1985 – 1986
1987 – 1988
1989 – 1990
1991 – 1992
1993 – 1994
1995 – 1996
1997 – 1998
1999 – 2000
2001 – 2002
2003 – 2004
2005 – 2006
2007 – 2008
2009 – 2010
2011 – 2012
Work it, Mr Irby!
Images via BoredPanda
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