I found a sweater, in the bottom drawer of a dresser out in the garage. It was grey. just grey.
I tried it on.....WOW. a deep V neck ......it was the first piece of clothing i ever wore that actually showed *whisper* cleavage! .....
so many curves!.......i had never liked my body clothed before......
i always felt like i belonged to another era. ...you know....the SUPER hour glass figure ones? like.....victorian.....or just after? ...that's the shape my body is....*sigh* WAS. *sad* i guess it still is.....just.....not so wonderful now.....
i wouldn't have needed a corset or a bustle! *laughing*......that's just the way my body went.....but then you put that in modern clothes? ....especially modern clothes during the grunge era??
not so hot. ......not when bones and flat chests and no hips are all the rage....i mean...this IS the era of kate moss and winona ryder you know.
so i'm looking through old photos....and there's my dad....in my sweater. *laughing*
and in THAT picture...it looks SOOO seventies. ....he's got a shirt under it.....with those wide wide collars? and the big longish bowl haircut? .......pretty damn hilarious if you ask me.....
but this is MY sweater now. and i must say....over a pair of jeans......it really looked REALLY good.
This was my senior year of high school.....my first year of school that isn't christian......or home schooling......
and i'm SOOOOO shy......but i wear my sweater....cause it's the only thing i think i look halfway attractive in......
now....skip ahead with me about oh.....15 years.
i'm working at a newspaper......this kid who i used to know is my boss......His older sister was my little sisters best friend.
till she got mixed up in drugs...and he burned his house down when he was 12...anyway....that's another story....
anyway...so we're talking about stuff....and he was a freshman the year i was a senior....
and he's like....you know that grey sweater you had?
and i know i have the WEIRDEST look on my face.....
yeah?
and he says.....did you know that at least half the male population at school was totally in love with that sweater?
(no. i really didn't.)
and i ask him....really....then how come i didn't have a boyfriend till i was 22?
and he says.....because no one dared ask you out......
you were so beautiful and you seemed really stuck up.
*long sigh*
i did NOT feel beautiful.......*another sigh* and i was SOOOOOOOO shy.
but GOD did that make me feel good.
*grin*
NOW...after that long rambling post.......do you have a piece of clothing that you remember fondly?
Fallyn posted on Nov 08, 2007
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rupert7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
Well....I did have a body shirt that had a pastel paisley pattern on it, and i would wear it with skin tight hipster jeans and a black studded belt. My clothes almost looked like they were painted on! I thought I was just "it!" My God what a sight I must have been!
I remember my mother telling me I was a slut going around dressed like that! How can I be a slut,I am a boy!!!!
Anyway I don't know what happened to it.There is no way i would fit into it now(or want to!) btw why don't you read my posts?
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
I'd love to see you looking like a slut...that would be awesome! *laughing*
i am reading them NOW!!! .....i just didn't realize that i wasn't subscribed to you!!
but i FIXED IT! :P
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
oh my goodness *blushing profusely* ......that didn't quite come out right now did it. -
rupert7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
thanks for subscribing to me,I did to you almost as soon as you came here!
didn't come out quite right?.... if you say so,I never contradict a lady! lol
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
why did you do that? *Grin*....thankyou....maybe you got the ball rolling so to speak. :P -
rupert7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
I was attracted to you! You sounded nice. -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*grin* ....now i'm blushing.
i think the reason i hadn't subscribed to you is because i didn't know how when i first read stuff you wrote.....and then when i did figure out how i thought i must have already done it with you.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
um.......my GOD i just can't seem to get anything to come out without something sounding a bit .....off. :P -
rupert7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
Nope not off, a bit funny! Anyway you have done it with me now!! LOL -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*giggling* was it good for you? *smirk* -
rupert7 said on Nov 08, 2007....
as good as it was for you babe! -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*laughing* okay....now i'm going to bed. *griN*.......goodnight rupert. *grin* -
Sunshine_Mariah said on Nov 08, 2007....
Hehe, this post made me smile! :-) Thanks! -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
GOOD sunshine......*laughing* -
uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
I tend to have love affairs with my jeans. In Jr. High I had a pair of jeans that I wore every day until they literally fell off of me. I'd stay home if I needed to wash them.A few years later I had a pair of jeans that were so cute back when you had to lay down to put them on. I thought I looked so hot in them. I could barely walk they were so tight, and forget sitting down.As an adult I've had several pairs of jeans that I wear until the holes start to connect to each other. The knees always go first, followed shortly by the ass. They're more like a suggestion than actual pants, though I draw the line at crotch tears.I'm not sure what it is about jeans that makes me so enthralled with them. -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
UI....i've had a few jeans that have been that way for me. i do understand. :Pd -
crybabylu said on Nov 08, 2007....
none of that ever worked for me. I was growing up in the twiggy era, i looked just like her only with brown hair. i didn't start putting on weight till in my 40 something, but never any curves. anyhow, the twiggy look never helped anyone but twiggy, so no matter what clothes i wore, you were pretty much looking at a stick. lucky, y'all. -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
oh dee...what i wouldn't have given to look like that! *laughing* so strange to want something you aren't. ......it just seemed like all the little petite girls were the ones with the dates.....i'm tall 5'9 ,and even when i was the proper weight....not a "small" girl by any stretch. -
uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
Fallyn, what I wouldn't give for those 3" in height you have on me! Since I tend to date (and marry) men over 6' it's always a key stone cops moment when I try to steal a kiss.
I admire how lean and lanky taller women look.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*laughing* .....that's kinda the thing....i am not lean and lanky. *laughing* imagine being that tall AND having all the curves......*sigh* i look like an amazon.....i'm learning to appreciate it......but it's taken awhile.....and unfortunately that appreciation never came when my body was pre-kid and gorgeous.
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uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
Ahhhh, take a lesson from Charlize Theron. She's a tall gal who has curves and isn't anorexic looking. I admire the way she accepts and appreciates what she's blessed with. -
vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
I had a pair of button fly levi's that fit so perfect. They hugged every curve and my butt didn't look enormous in them. Of course, they were a size 3...oh how I miss those days. Anyways, when I wore them I felt like I could conquer the world. I felt ultra sexy in them.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*laughing* do you know what i would look like if i was a size 3? *laughing*......i would very literally look like a skeleton with skin. ......lucky tiny girls. :P
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vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
Fallyn...before the four kids and my thirties I was a teeny tiny boobless girl. Of course, I only stand 5'4" and I am rounding up. -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*grin* well...everyone comes in different shapes and sizes.....even without extra weight. i just REALLY wish i'd known that sooner. -
uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
I can't ever remember being size 3. I'm 5'6" and the best I was ever able to do was a size 6. I suppose its the junk in my trunk that mess that up! -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*laughing* ....i am truly amazonian. the smallest i EVER could be is an 8. and that's fit and toned and lean. -
vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
Me too!
ui...So, I shouldn't mention that I wore size 16 girls until I got pregnant with my first kid. Then I bloomed into a size 3. Yes, size 3 was after I bloomed. Being thin isn't what its cracked up to be. Especially, when everyone was sure you needed to eat every time they saw you.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
my grandma said when she was small that they separated the kids at school during lunch.....into the regular kids and the ones that were too skinny.....she always got put at the too skinny table and it really hurt her feelings. she said her sister was always plump and more popular....and then times changed......and skinny was in. and then it was her sister always trying to go on a diet.
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uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
vacant - No, you probably shouldn't mention that to me. (green with envy) I suppose those miniscule sizes were never meant for my broad shoulders and healthy lady hump. At least I had a waist line worth mentioning once. -
vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
Wow, I'm glad we didn't have a too skinny table at school. I would of ran and hid at lunch time.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
hey now....no fights between the curvy and the slim.....we both have our place in envied history. :P -
vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
ui...don't worry, I envied the girls that had something to talk about. I was the president of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Plus it would have been nice to have some resemblance of a female body when I could have used it. -
uniquely-ironic said on Nov 08, 2007....
I keep offering to donate some of the curve in my ass to my sister. She has none. (ass) Weird that genetics plays such a cruel joke on two sisters.
Yes, we all have our shapes, so we might as well enjoy them.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
yeah, my sis is as tall as me.....but we're different shapes.
she's ALL legs.....and i'm all torso......and she's much finer boned than me. rather unfair.
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wombat said on Nov 08, 2007....
Fun post, and I just about missed it...
The one thing I remember is a pair of khaki pants that fit me so well that it made my figure look better than it was. (It was all in the way they were made) This was when I was smaller than I am now, too. I loved those pants! I got looks from guys all the time in them--even had one man walk away from his wife and follow me down a store aisle!
My ex spilled a bottle of clorox and ruined them!
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vacantmind said on Nov 08, 2007....
My sister got the bod but she was horribly shy. I wasn't shy but didn't have much of a bod to speak of. Genetics is cruel. -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
wombi....probably because you were tearing other men away from their wives.....I bet he did it on purpose!! *nods emphatically*
genetics are terribly cruel i agree.
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crybabylu said on Nov 08, 2007....
maybe the shy matches the bod. you know like if yu have the bod , you can afford to be shy. My mouth was always the only thing I had going for me, I always sneaked upon them when they weren't looking, the only problem is remembering not to talk them to death afterwards....haha i have definitely talked some of them to death for sure.hahaha -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
you did what now? -
Lioness said on Nov 08, 2007....
wow, such a nice post Fallyn.. those comments kept me laughing here. Wow, you are sexy! As far as I know, it's only when I started working that I had the "freedom" to wear the things I think are nice in me.
I was always the "covered girl", rather conservative and well, demure. But then my taste changed and I went for those clothes that identify "me" as me: lacey blouses, see-throughs, low necklines, short sleeves.... When I buy blouses, I instantly know if it fits me right, I don't have to fit it. Strange.
It's true that if you feel pretty and sexy in what you wear, you feel confident inside out.
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
it's totally true! .....i'm a lot more picky when i choose my clothes now.
my high school years were so strange.....dressing wise...mostly because the "trends" of the moment were SOOOOOO unflattering on me.
and yeah.....i think i probably was sexy....and could have been if i'd been seeing myself without the whole i'm so fat and ugly words going through my head.....
but i don't have that body anymore.
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crybabylu said on Nov 08, 2007....
don't we all wish we still had those bodies, Ha! -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
i KNOW.......they aren't kidding when they say "youth is wasted on the young"
*sigh*
now i know what to DO with a body like that....and i don't even have it to experiment with.
maybe that's not such a bad thing........*thinking maybe i'd be in a LOT more trouble now*
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Lioness said on Nov 08, 2007....
Hmm.. don't you think all girls go through that phase? I did too, until college. Whenever I hear flattering words, my mind immediately rejects the comment and it sticks to the self-image I built sub-consciously.
Dang that late-bloomer term. c",L*
sorry for getting off board!
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Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
so what's it called when your body decides to show up early....and your mind just hasn't quite caught up with it? and by the time it does....the bodies on the downslope. -
Lioness said on Nov 08, 2007....
hmmmmmmmmmm... **blinks** I don't know!!! hahaha... physically matured, but mentally young?? -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
*laughing* after 3 kids....yeah.
exactly.
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Lioness said on Nov 08, 2007....
:D Not bad! -
Fallyn said on Nov 08, 2007....
not bad? *laughing*
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