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May 07, 2003
Lift me up, Oh Lord
The opportunity to live in another country is a truly eye-opening experience. Other cultures are really very interesting. For example, Turkey has this fascinating fashion quirk in which it is considered perfectly okay to wear a knee-length skirt with flats. Even the most hip and trendy among them do it, it's just ever so quaint. While Girl-E has been a mere observer of this anthropological phenomenon for months, circumstances of weather, color coordination, and clean laundry availability led her to actually engage in this custom today.
This cultural immersion evoked a sensation not unlike the experience of getting cornrows in your hair on the family vacation to St. Maarten - you are proud of your adoption of local custom, and yet you know there is just something not quite right.
And, like the feeling that "surely it must be okay to wear a muu-muu if I'm in Hawaii," there is no denying the sheer physical comfort of the situation. But nevertheless, she cannot help longing for some elevation as she catches her utterly grounded reflection in the sliding glass doors.
We hope this does not cause another vanity-induced nightmare. We can just see it, Girl-E running, albeit with ease, from a mob of platform-clad fashion police shouting "Hold it right there, stumpy!"
Let's also hope she doesn't overcompensate tomorrow with the even more puzzling local acceptance of jeans with heels. We're on watch.
Posted by The Twins at May 7, 2003 07:20 AM
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