"Retired gym teacher Dale Irby posed for his first yearbook photo back in 1973 at Prestonwood Elementary school. The next year, completely by accident, Irby wore the exact same outfit. At first he was horrified to discover the faux pas, but then his wife made a dare: do it again the next year. Before you knew it a 40-year tradition was born; from 1973 to 2013 the teacher, now 63, wore an identical sweater vest and collared shirt for every single yearbook portrait.
‘I was so embarrassed when I got
the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same
thing as the first year,’ says Irby. But once the dare got underway, things
changed: ‘After five pictures, it was like: Why stop?’
As you might imagine, age had
some effect on the picture day routine. By the end of the tradition, weight
gain forced Irby to bring the shirt and sweater with him to school separately,
only donning it long enough to take the photo. He admits that, these days, he can
only button the shirt if he ‘sucks it in a little.’”
- from the Dallas Morning News
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