Just a teeny bit vulgar.

shapeimage_2-5_3The designer Roberto Cavalli said “Right now, the line between sexy and a little vulgar is very thin.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself.  Which is probably why I thought it was okay to purchase a pair of skintight purple jeans.  It’s also why I plan to wear a tie-dye bubble dress which is much too short for a woman of my age to a benefit this Saturday night.  It’s a rock concert to benefit Faith’s Lodge and the attire is cocktail with a rock-edge, so my dress (which I realize sounds atrocious but is actually pretty cute) coupled with a pair of scrunchie gray booties, should fit the bill nicely.  I also bought some silver eyeliner but Devil Baby used it to scribble in Saint James’ March of the Penguins book.  The penguins are all looking super fly, but unless I find a sharpener between now and Saturday, there will be no silver eyeliner for me.  

The line between vulgar and sexy has always been thin – at least for a certain kind of sexy.  Of course there is librarian sexy (think eyeglasses on chains, tweed skirts, buns begging to be unfurled and whipped around),  horsey sexy (boots, jodhpurs, riding crops - thwack!), hippy sexy (long hair, tan shoulders, sundresses, no bras), TV lawyer sexy (killer suits, killer pumps, killer office view), Queen Mum sexy (little hats, little suits, little white gloves, tea – wait, scratch that last one).   

But something about just plain sexy sexy, borderline vulgar sexy, is just feeling right on these days in terms of fashion. Maybe it’s the lack of pretense. The fact that it takes some confidence to pull off unapologetically, “confidence” simply being code for: I don’t give a shit anymore.  It just is what it is and if you don’t like it you can avert your eyes, or gossip about me, I don’t care.  Maybe it’s boredom, a bit of an autoimmune response to spending so much time trolling through Bed, Bath and Beyond looking for storage containers for my new house. Mostly, although I hate to admit it, I think I’m wanting to toe the vulgar line because if not now, when?  The clock is ticking . . . snap, snap . . . the time is now.

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