Vixen Chronicles

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Every year, I get pictures of "ghetto Proms" in my inbox. This last round has left me wondering, "Are these pictures for real?" Every other dress, make that nine out of the ten, had open middles or skin showing holes down the side, some with cheap material stretched so thin over the offending flesh, they look ready to burst any minute. These girls looked like sausages ready to burst the casing. Does everyone at these high school suffer from a severe case of bad taste? Often, in addition to being half dresses, the dresses are really mini dresses with a train tacked onto the butt to make a part of the dress floor length. How many black women can afford to have ANYTHING tacked onto their rear ends? I know a lot of you saw the video of the young woman who was denied entrance to her prom in Houston last week, because her dress violated school policy. She caused a scene and the police were called, all over a dress that she'll surely (hopefully) be embarrassed t

I haven't blogged in awhile because I had nothing to say, nothing I was excited about, but today that changed. I arrived home from an out of town trip to find a package on my doorstep, one that I'd been waiting for awhile, three weeks to be exact. Three weeks ago, my favorite jeans developed a hole. Now that they've added lycra to things, jeans will run on you like pantyhose, and my did, in a place I couldn't cover up. I was devastated. These weren't old navy sale jeans, but 200 dollar/pair jobs, ones that I'd had for two years. I'd tried on no less than thirty pairs to find them. I'm sure most of you ladies can relate, especially if you are curvy. Good jeans are hard to find, and these were not only good, but comfortable and broken in, the kind you always grabbed first, that make you look hot on the worst of days. I took a picture of the hole and sent it it my sister. She's my fashion consultant, my go-to girl. I wanted to know