From preschool, when I grew up, we were taught to curtsy. Some of us at least could appreciate that this was an act of poise and dignity. But in seeming contradiction to that, the one thing that struck us all was pulling up our skirts. And boys were there and could see this. Once boys found out about this, they would snigger and point at us. It was ( Read more... )

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What Your Purple Outfit Means
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We've just had a cold snap around here. The other morning I was walking for several blocks through downtown Rockville to a business appointment. The freezing winter wind was blowing hard... I hadn't worn an overcoat, thinking it wouldn't be that cold. I was wearing a knee-length skirt suit. The upper half of my body was badly chilled by the biting ( Read more... )

Today I was in Safeway and saw a Middle Eastern sister with two small kids and a husband, wearing a long faded-denim skirt and a white leather jacket. Her basic hijab was a black scarf wrapped around her head and shoulders and worn under her jacket. But she had added a second and smaller scarf, in gray with a black and white pattern, which was ( Read more... )

She called me " elegant."

Nothing to add... she got it right! ;)

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Macy's just had an after-Christmas sale on all kinds of cool shit. Last night after cooking dinner with A., I went and got a cool pair of jeans -- Bandolino Blu if you must know -- marked down from $40, with my Macy's card it was only $17. I dropped a couple of sizes from the last pair of jeans and the new one fits really sweet. It has just an ( Read more... )

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