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<\/a><\/p>\nYes, that is a leopard print spandex-cotton blend. It shows as much thigh as my high school skirts.<\/p>\n
Here I am in a gold foil dress for another company Christmas party … I never wore this dress, or the 30th birthday dress, again. Thank God.<\/p>\n
And lest you think I was suffering from oppression because of these clothes, here is a happy Polaroid taken by my boyfriend:<\/p>\n Well, that’s just the point … nothing is more inflamed than an untamed Catholic girl from a small town. She goes to the big city (Seattle) and forgets everything she ever knew about good taste and modesty.<\/p>\n Oh, but wait.<\/p>\n There was that time when I was 18, working at Montgomery Ward’s in the Sandusky Mall, and a manager asked if I would help them sell car wax.<\/p>\n By lounging on a sports car.<\/p>\n In a bikini.<\/p>\n I told my friend Dan<\/a> that I’d be “modeling” at the mall that day, not mentioning the bathing suit. So he came to see me, with his mother.<\/p>\n I heard him scream before I saw him.<\/p>\n I’m writing about my bimbo days to remind myself that:<\/p>\n 1. My “sexy” clothing choices, though conventional<\/a>, did give me some pleasure.<\/p>\n 2. I have not always been fat and old.<\/p>\n 3. When I look askance at the dreadful clothes that 20-something women wear today, I just should shut up.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 1989, the last year I bought a dress in the juniors department.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah yes, bimbo days. I had ’em. Froofy big hair, shiny fabrics, tight fit, high heels, makeup. Sometimes I cannot believe the things I wore – wore because I thought they made me look sexy, which I understood to be the main purpose of clothes. Here I am on my 30th birthday, wearing a dress … read more Day 73: I was a bimbo once, and young<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[272,275,262,273,98,274],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-272","tag-bimbo","tag-clothes","tag-dresses","tag-seattle","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHow does a nice Catholic girl from Ohio wind up like this?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n