The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
You are black? I did not know that. I am "flesh-tone" (thanks Crayola!) But when I applied for a sales position at Daytons for the exact same reasons you did I was denied, and I did not geet a different position either. Hmmmmmm. Also, Macy's has a kitchen? I did not know that either! This is a day of learning for me.

Why did Dayton's not want me? Must be the face tat.

Flower says that you are pretty dark-skinned for Minnesota.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Are you sure you're not hispanic?

Nope. I am flesh-tone. I am also a natural blonde though so perhaps they just assumed I was stupid.

My best job ever was as a "locker room attendant" at an outdoor pool with a waterslide. This was either summers in highschool or college - I forget which, but I think college. I sat and sunned myself in a bikini* ALL DAY LONG and took about 2 hours worth of breaks every 8 hour day to go running or swimming or down the water slide. And when I say "breaks," I mean breaks from sunning myself in a bikini and occasionally moving my right thumb to "click" my counter of how many kids came through with pool passes sewn into their swimsuits.

*I was, of course, much thinner than ppnyc. Men stared at my tits without excuse of their wife having similar tits but merely because I myself have nice tits.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Flower says that you are pretty dark-skinned for Minnesota.

That's because he is always wearing shades when he is around me. He has a very bright future, which is also why he attracts so many newbers.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Nope. I am flesh-tone. I am also a natural blonde though so perhaps they just assumed I was stupid.

My best job ever was as a "locker room attendant" at an outdoor pool with a waterslide. This was either summers in highschool or college - I forget which, but I think college. I sat and sunned myself in a bikini* ALL DAY LONG and took about 2 hours worth of breaks every 8 hour day to go running or swimming or down the water slide. And when I say "breaks," I mean breaks from sunning myself in a bikini and occasionally moving my right thumb to "click" my counter of how many kids came through with pool passes sewn into their swimsuits.

*I was, of course, much thinner than ppnyc. Men stared at my tits without excuse of their wife having similar tits but merely because I myself have nice tits.

A friend of mine hires for Victoria's Secret. she tells me they try to hire somewhat dumpy girls in addition to fit/cute. Lots of their customer base is guys who are with chubby to fat women. Seeing the product on fit women might make it look better, but it isn't showing the customer what he'd really need to see. I bet she was really busy there.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A friend of mine hires for Victoria's Secret. she tells me they try to hire somewhat dumpy girls in addition to fit/cute. Lots of their customer base is guys who are with chubby to fat women. Seeing the product on fit women might make it look better, but it isn't showing the customer what he'd really need to see. I bet she was really busy there.

That was just fucking mean, Hank. I was a size 6 at the time and 125 pounds. That is hardly fucking chubby.

As for Abba, why the hate? I don't hate on you.

As for my zen moment I am wearing cashmere and it feels nice. I think I want more. I saw a cashmere hoody at J Crew it was cute.

Also I want to go to Cole Haan I am getting gift certs for my birthday and I want to spennnd them.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
As for Abba, why the hate? I don't hate on you.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

But seriously, no hate - I just thought it was phun-knee that you always mention your weight in connections with the stories you tell, so I mentioned your weight in connection with the story I was telling.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Did you guys sit around and make fun of whitey? I bet someone mimicked Eddie Murphy's white man voice!

No. We hated the sales dudes because they didn't have to do anything and thought they were better or smarter than us, which they decidedly weren't. However, we didn't have any real boss, so we could do our work, fool around and eat whatever we wanted.

But you're right about the Eddie Murphy voice. I never pass up a chance to say, "Why, I'm buying this newspaper."

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can't believe you tolerated such racism.

Yeah. Me either. It's sad, but before I really started looking at stuff on a less superficial level (read: after a college professor kicked me in the ass), I was just sort of used to that kind of thing.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Nope. I am flesh-tone. I am also a natural blonde though so perhaps they just assumed I was stupid.

My best job ever was as a "locker room attendant" at an outdoor pool with a waterslide. This was either summers in highschool or college - I forget which, but I think college. I sat and sunned myself in a bikini* ALL DAY LONG and took about 2 hours worth of breaks every 8 hour day to go running or swimming or down the water slide. And when I say "breaks," I mean breaks from sunning myself in a bikini and occasionally moving my right thumb to "click" my counter of how many kids came through with pool passes sewn into their swimsuits.

*I was, of course, much thinner than ppnyc. Men stared at my tits without excuse of their wife having similar tits but merely because I myself have nice tits.

True natural blonde?

I've only had that once, and all I can say is, bravo.

ETA: Incredibly rare.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. We hated the sales dudes because they didn't have to do anything and thought they were better or smarter than us, which they decidedly weren't. However, we didn't have any real boss, so we could do our work, fool around and eat whatever we wanted.

But you're right about the Eddie Murphy voice. I never pass up a chance to say, "

Yeah. Me either. It's sad, but before I really started looking at stuff on a less superficial level (read: after a college professor kicked me in the ass), I was just sort of used to that kind of thing.

TM

All joking aside, I think some of the injustices and racsim you have encountered have deeply wounded you on some level and you carry that around with you.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A friend of mine hires for Victoria's Secret. she tells me they try to hire somewhat dumpy girls in addition to fit/cute. Lots of their customer base is guys who are with chubby to fat women. Seeing the product on fit women might make it look better, but it isn't showing the customer what he'd really need to see. I bet she was really busy there.

I don't buy that shit for my wife. Waste of time. Raw is much better.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
True natural blonde?

I've only had that once, and all I can say is, bravo.

ETA: Incredibly rare.

Perhaps I am whiffing, but there are Juan Meelyun natural blondes in Minnesota. My entire sorority was made up of natural blondes. Okay, maybe not the entire sorority, but probably 60%.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
One summer I worked at a country club and had to wear a green polyester dress. It had a white, fake tuxedo shirt inset too. God I hated that dress. I always wore shorts and a t-shirt underneath so I could strip out of it in the parking lot.

Even the uniform at the cheesy NJ wedding factory where I worked sophomore year of HS wasn't that bad.

Neither of those jobs allowed flair.

I ended up cooking at Bennigan's. That was fun compared to the front of the house grind. We had a radio in the kitchen, not the smaltzy Musak tapes, free food (rarely actual menu items), and all the free booze you could handle provided it went with juice.

Good times, good times.

My little sister, who for most of her adult life lived the life of an uber-rich expat wife in northern Africa and the middle east has now moved back home to small town Canada with her son, divorced her husband (but on very friendly terms -- in keeping with her sisters' examples), is now dating a welder (whose wife left him for another woman, shocking the small town) who is very fond of hockey and has three little sons, and now she's opening up an A&W burger franchise (not in a mall). So for the past week she has been flipping burgers as part of the franchisee training program. She has to work the cash register today. I do not think she is wearing flair though.

ETA: I forgot. The welder drives a pickup. It's totally Lifetime movie of the week.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I worked Christmas help in college [yes Hank, I was much thinner then] at Victoria's Secret. What a gig. yikes. [Beyond the Disney Store which I had to wear a uniform to sling Mickey dolls...]

I was like 19 at the time and these middle aged men used to come in "Hi, I'm buying for my wife she's about your size" and stare at your tits. Oh god. Just thinking about it now I skeeve out.

Has there ever been a time in your life where men didn't become drooling idiots around you (besides the 10 minutes when we had that one drink, when neither I nor anyone around you flirted with you at all)?

Pretty much every woman I know is better looking than you and yet, not one of them has ever felt the need to talk about their looks 10% as much as you do. Hmmmmm. I guess maybe this isn't much of a mystery, although, the unattractive women I've known would never make themselves the object of ridicule by talking about how desirable they are either.

You are truly one-of-a-kind.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My little sister, who for most of her adult life lived the life of an uber-rich expat wife in northern Africa and the middle east has now moved back home to small town Canada with her son, divorced her husband (but on very friendly terms -- in keeping with her sisters' examples), is now dating a welder (whose wife left him for another woman, shocking the small town) who is very fond of hockey and has three little sons, and now she's opening up an A&W burger franchise (not in a mall). So for the past week she has been flipping burgers as part of the franchisee training program. She has to work the cash register today. I do not think she is wearing flair though.

ETA: I forgot. The welder drives a pickup. It's totally Lifetime movie of the week.

are the food delivery girls on skates?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Yeah, but that is totally different than the "oops, I'm commando and wearing a really short skirt and getting out of a car is really hard." thing.

She's done that, too. In the same car, in fact. Although she wasn't bare, just very trimmed.