April 12, 2005
Thrift Store Couture
Over the weekend, I was thrift store shopping with Lola and Joe. Joe and I were looking for Barbies, natch, and Lola was costuming a couple shows.
Well, I only found one Barbie (a bellybutton Kira without hideous 80's eye make-up -– do you know how rare that is?!), but I did find a cowboy skirt. Oh yeah, a red, three-tired, cotton skirt with cowboys on it, that had obviously been living in someone’s attic for the past 50 years. It’s ridiculous times ten. So I bought it.
It was only $2.50, and somehow, Lola and Joe convinced me that it goes with everything and would look absolutely darling on me. Damn crack pushers. This is how they got me to start collecting Gene dolls. Five hundred bucks later, and I’m still hanging out with these people. I JUST DON’T LEARN!
Then they had the following conversation about how I should present it to Husband:
Lola: You should put it on with a red bra and denim jacket and be like, ‘Honey, look what I bought!’
Joe: Or without the bra and jacket…
Lola: Ooh! Little, red sheriff star pasties instead!
Joe: Or maybe just a cowboy hat and boots!
Lola: With spurs!
Lo, such are the Powers of My Hotness that I had a straight woman and a gay man imagining me in naughty outfits! BOW BEFORE ME! MY SENSUALITY BEGUILES ALL!
I also bought a Hawaii shirt for a luau I’m attending next month. It has little, vintage woody station wagons on it, and also surf boards and palm trees. I bought it solely so I can start conversations with, “Wanna see my woody?” Because I’m TWELVE!
Comments
Hey! Is that Catwoman Barbie new?
Posted by: Max Hufnagel at April 12, 2005 04:35 PM
You didn't tell us if it worked . . .
Posted by: Lola at April 12, 2005 10:00 PM