A Woman's Prerogative

There's an old saying: It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind, but are you like me and have done a complete 180? Or as they say in the modern political era: totally flip-flopped on something? Well one of mine is that for over 30 years I was an obsessive tucker. (Yes, I meant to type "tucker.") No matter what I was wearing, the shirt had to be tucked into the pants. It was ridiculous. In this first example, not only is the top tucked in but I'm wearing some sort of stupid belt. (I'm the one on the right.):

1982

This next one is just as stupid. The top is a really cute cotton shirt (the type with eyelets and whatnot) that was even cut to indent at the waist and fall in an elegant flair at the top of the hips. And I tucked it in. I wonder what I was thinking. Oh yeah, "I have to tuck this in."

1988

This next one is really just incomprehensible. It looks like I am wearing cotton knit house shorts and yet, I have tucked in my shirt!:

1994, I think

Well, what happened was, I read an article in TV Guide (yeah, of all things) and never tucked in another thing. It may have been the 40th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's or something, but TV Guide had an article by Audrey Hepburn's main designer guy about how he dressed her. I'm guessing it must have been Hubert de Givenchy because he styled a lot of her outfits. He said something like, "She was short-waisted and smaller at the top than the bottom so I always put her in long shirts and drop waist dresses. It made her look taller and longer." And it was one of those moments for me. A "Personal Duh" if you will, and that was that.

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Do you have something in your life where you did a complete turnaround about food, friends, fun, fashion, family (what the F? Why does everything start with F?) or anything else?

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Some Side Notes:

Although I have always detested Andrew Dick Dice Clay, the current ad for "The Apprentice" where he calls Mr. Worst Hair Ever "Donny Trump" really gave me quite a chuckle. "Donny." heh heh heh.

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"Survivor" went all tricksy tonight making us think that "coach" had been thwarted, but then we saw at the end that he had voted for Jerry. That was annoying. I only got to be thrilled for a minute or so.