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Fatshion 101: I Miss Playing Dress Up

In the course of the last few weeks my dad went through old family albums and found some really awesome pictures of moi! It took me back to a time when I enjoyed being a kid  because we could play dress up. Today, it seems like we have to make up or have an excuse to "play" dress-up. As adults, we wait for Halloween or a themed party to dress a certain way. And even then, it's like a requirement to show more skin than I feel is comfortable... I just began to reminisce, especially when looking through all these pictures... I loved putting on my mom's dresses, her jewelery , her heels and putting on make up ( and my applying make up skills are still as "good" as they were then ;-) I would dress up and play with my imaginary friend, Fred and/or with my cousin.We would make up the most ridiculous story lines and sometime inappropriate, thanks to our moms' tele- novellas ... As a kid it didn't matter if you were tall, short, skinny or ...