Talk about Retro! Teacher Wears Same Outfit for School Photo 40 Years Talk about Retro! Teacher Wears Same Outfit for School Photo 40 Years. Dale Irby: Teacher Wears Same Photo Outfit for 40 Years: Gym instructor wears the same groovy Seventies outfit in school yearbook photo for 40 YEARS. After a good long career in education, Dale Irby has retired. And so have his groovy shirt and sweater vest. In every school picture for the past 40 years, Dale wore the same 1970s-era polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater.
And let me just say he aged a whole lot better than his clothes did.
It began as an accident — a product of his sparse wardrobe back in the day.
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, said Dale, 63.
But his wife, Cathy, dared him to do it a third year. Then Dale thought five would be funny. After five pictures, he said, it was like: Why stop?
So he just never did, right on through this, his final year as every kids favorite physical education teacher at Prestonwood Elementary in the Richardson school district.
Dale and Cathy, 62, met in 1973 as first-year teachers at Titche Elementary in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas. He remembers getting the announcement that school-picture day was coming and that teachers should wear something nice.
In his case, that was the patterned, pointy-collared shirt with matching wool vest he had just bought at Sanger-Harris in Big Town Mall. I really didnt have anything else, said the man who got
He was a cool gym teacher…memories
I feel like I know him now – and I like him.