Men Talk about it.

Tennis champion Maria Sharapova wearing a strapless Valentino mini featuring a sheer insert at the shoulders, and an inverted pleat down the front of her frock Thursday July 11, 2013. You can't detract from her in any way. She is beautiful, poised, and accomplished. She is wearing the dress. - Dawn Wolf

"A lot of cats I know would like to say what they initially feel about the perspective of professional fashion critics who rip apart some of the best, or most intriguing outfits famous women sport on the red carpet. It is the criticizer who feels jealousy, we think. The critics seem to be led by gay men, who many of us feel are looking at the expression, and freedoms they cannot venture into because feminine honesty and its natural purity is as inaccessible to them as the way play is unique to women, and distinct from the way men play. 

It isn't said aloud. People don't say it because... Well, no one does. No one dare say anything publicly. We sit with our beers exchanging looks that know each other quietly with our perceptions and appreciative looks at these titillating women expressing the art of clothing the natural appeal of their sensuous powers to men who appreciate and understand them, and their fashion statements as men engrossed in the purity of their masculinity." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.13.13

Carmen Electra stormed into our public TV lives on the beaches of the forever popular series, BAY WATCH,  a long time ago it seems. A lot of us husbands were given that time to enjoy that hour every Saturday of what we called BABE WATCH. It was fun. Fast forward into the second decade of the next century and Carmen Electra was seen in this equally compelling blue t-shirt with a photo of the actress Amanda Bynes, as the Virgin Mary holding a bong on the front.

A bong?

"Oh, she going to hell." someone is saying.

I think she will get a pass because of the black stockings and those cool tennis shoes she wears so playfully. How could she be chided for this bold assertion with her hair style. The style fits. It is a matured woman's sensuality young women cannot mimic. Only older and confident women can pull these things off. Younger women can only have dress rehearsals as Carmen Electra did running across the beach in her red bikinis. Every stage of development is appreciated. The beauty of  'girl watching' is paying attention to progressions with understanding and deep appreciation that is not that critical because women's stages of growth are fundamental to men's maturation processes.

But still. What a statement to wear on your clothes! She is pretty bold in a country based upon Puritan ethics. I like it. I always encourage the young to push the limitations, and push intelligently against the constraints of expression and growth in their lives.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
July 13, 2013

photo: Coleman-Rayner