girly whinge post

[lupinesque]

Elkins, who we *know* is devastatingly leggy even though she tries to 
deny it, wrote:

> I'm a woman, dammit, and I don't have hips.  What I've *got* is 
> a big fat tummy and a big fat back.  You know that 
whole "waistline" 
> concept?  That weird idea that there's supposed to be some sort of 
> indentation at the waist?  Some strange concave contrivance where 
the 
> waistband is supposed to go?  Well, I don't have one of those.  I 
go 
> *out* there.  'Way out there.  You know that awful stereotype of 
the 
> guy in the undershirt with the beer belly who sits in front of the 
> tube all day?  Yeah, well, that's my body type.

Well, I did say that designers seem to think we're all shaped like 
men.  That doesn't mean that none of us ARE shaped like men.  <g>

> (Well...actually, for me, there's always the men's jeans option,
> but that only works if you never have to "dress up."  If you're
> expected ever to wear anything but jeans, then it doesn't work too 
> well.  Fortunately, at this point in my life, the only time I'm 
ever 
> called upon to get out of my slobby male drag is to attend other 
> people's weddings.  

You could stick with drag and wear men's dress clothes!  Imagine how 
dashing you would look in black tie.  The possibilities are 
delicious:  cummerbund, tails, morning coat, pearl studs in your 
French cuffs . . . If your dh is secure enough to attend family 
events with a crossdressing woman on his arm, and you're prepared to 
fend off drooling lesbians, go for it.

Amy