"If you're rich, I'm single."

[McGoddess09]

Am I reading that correctly? Once you hit puberty your parents made "enhance and play up your figure"?

I think they meant it in a good, tasteful way. There was no point in trying to hide her figure, so they tastefully played it up. I don't think they would have let Blas get away with what teen girls are wearing today.

I wasn't allowed to wear spaghetti straps alone until I was 17. When my sister got to, I asked her why I was never allowed.

"She doesn't have what you have yet."

Oh no. My arms were going to show more. Oh geez. Everyone knows I have boobs.

"Is this tasteful? I don't want to show too much clavicle."

[WhiteRose]

in medieval times, a woman's chestbone, the back of her neck, ankles and wrists were very sexy places to show skin...for ME, the back of the neck is still a sexy place...

another aside about 'beauty'... women 5' tall or taller were still expected to be a size 13" waist back in the victorian age...by that i mean 13" around...women would literally have their daughters lay on the floor so they could stand on them, break bones, break corset ties (average is 8) and have them not eat dinner/breakfast if they can't do it on their own...talk about fashion nonsense...most women back then couldn't breathe, which is why they kept fainting, which is why they were thought of as the 'weaker' sex...

[blas]

That was read very wrong! My parents never MADE me dress to enchance my figure and sex me up in any way.

Thanks lil sis for explaining it better than I could.

My mother was forced to cover her large chest when she was growing up, being raised by her grandmother. It made my mother feel extremely insecure about having large breasts. My mother did not want me growing up hating the womanly figure I was going to have. My mother would have NEVER allowed the type of clothes you see a lot of younglings strutting about in nowadays, but my parents never felt that it would do any good to force me to wear large shirts and cover myself completely up. It would just lead to me being extremely insecure about looking like a woman should look.

If I was not raised that way, I would have cried and covered myself up when a bunch of the older women I work with ganged up on me and went to the boss about my clothes being so offensive and racy and too sexy (since when was a tshirt and jeans too sexy?) and I would have questioned myself before I got dressed every single night before work. Because I was raised to dress for the figure that I have, and to play it up WITHOUT going over the top, I can make jeans and a tshirt look good. Very good. I can make an undershirt and jeans look good.

Going back on it, I figured I had worded that just fine. I guess some people just catch a few words and take everything out of context.

But then again, I could hardly care less if someone thinks I do look too racy or too sexy or inappropriate. They can go fuck themselves. I'm a grown up, I have a nice body, and I can dress as I please. No butt crack, no obnoxious cleavage, no rolls....no problem.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

That was read very wrong! My parents never MADE me dress to enchance my figure and sex me up in any way.

Thanks lil sis for explaining it better than I could.

My mother was forced to cover her large chest when she was growing up, being raised by her grandmother. It made my mother feel extremely insecure about having large breasts. My mother did not want me growing up hating the womanly figure I was going to have. My mother would have NEVER allowed the type of clothes you see a lot of younglings strutting about in nowadays, but my parents never felt that it would do any good to force me to wear large shirts and cover myself completely up. It would just lead to me being extremely insecure about looking like a woman should look.

If I was not raised that way, I would have cried and covered myself up when a bunch of the older women I work with ganged up on me and went to the boss about my clothes being so offensive and racy and too sexy (since when was a tshirt and jeans too sexy?) and I would have questioned myself before I got dressed every single night before work. Because I was raised to dress for the figure that I have, and to play it up WITHOUT going over the top, I can make jeans and a tshirt look good. Very good. I can make an undershirt and jeans look good.

Going back on it, I figured I had worded that just fine. I guess some people just catch a few words and take everything out of context.

But then again, I could hardly care less if someone thinks I do look too racy or too sexy or inappropriate. They can go fuck themselves. I'm a grown up, I have a nice body, and I can dress as I please. No butt crack, no obnoxious cleavage, no rolls....no problem.

Honey, I couldn't have a more average build, and I'M insecure about showing cleavage. All my shirts and blouses are cut no lower than right below the clavicle.

Well, except one shirt which is V-neck but still too high to show any cleavage, and then I still wear a tank top under it to cover more.

Can I go back in time and borrow your parents, please?

[blas]

Sure you can

I just don't want anyone thinking that my parents were nutsos who dressed me up in corsets and miniskirts and had me parade around to show off what sexy is.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I didn't think that. Just figured they were teaching you how to dress cute and pretty for your body type. Like, picking out the cut of jeans and shirts that worked, along with flattering colors and whatnot.

[blas]

Oh, I know you didn't

Yes, that was the jist of it. Mom taught me the golden rule of having a big chest....attempting to hide it is just going to make them stick out more, at times even making them appear bigger. So she taught me how I could wear certain necklines without showing too much, and not looking like I was trying to hide something.

[Andara Bledin]

No butt crack, no obnoxious cleavage, no rolls....no problem.

QFT!

Why can't more women figure out that list right there?!?

^-.-^

[AriRashkae]

QFT!

Why can't more women figure out that list right there?!?

^-.-^

I've got #1 and #3 down no problem, but I can't manage #2. I lost my cleavage! Without a firm bra, my profile looks like I'm 13 again! (Doesn't help that I still have and fit into the dress I wore to 8th grade "graduation" )

[tropicsgoddess]

Ick. I wish that prostitot thing would just end. It's just wrong seeing little kids dressing up like that. The only future I would see for them is working at Le Bear's or hooking on Federal Highway. (My South Floridian CS'ers would get this reference).