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From: sommers@topaz.ARPA (Mamaliz @ The Soup Kitchen)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: shoes and hair
Message-ID: <1939@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 19:37:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.1939
Posted: Thu May  9 19:37:56 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 03:53:43 EDT
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(This line wants to be Greta Garbo)

Shaving hair:  This has been coming up a lot between my friends and
myself, glad to see it worries other people also.  I have very thick dark
hair on my legs.  I *know* that I should not worry about it, but I do.  I
find that I always shave my legs before putting on a dress (about twice a
year) or going away on a trip.  No idea why a trip causes me to shave my
legs.  I also seem to shave my legs and armpits before visiting my mother.
It is easier to shave then listen to the bitching.  I normally would never
shave my pits and I have persuaded my beloved to stop using deoderant
(another story all together).

What is even more worrisome is facial hair.  I do not want to be known as
"the woman with one eyebrow across her forhead and the thick black
mustache".  Occasionally I will wax (ouch) but I do not have the time to
keep it up.  I refuse to tweeze for the most part - it hurts and is
time-consmuming.  Shaving makes my face feel and look funny - besides I
still hold by the superstition that it makes the hair thicker.  Has anyone
tried electrolysis?  How much time/money did it take?

Why do we worry about such silly things?


Shoes:  I have size 12AAA feet.  I buy what I can find.  I finally found a
brand of men's jogging shoes that I could wear (they dont make womens in
my size) that are just a little too wide but livable.   I never learned to
wear heels, because they did not make them in my size when I would have
been learning.  Tall women were not supposed to want to be taller.  I have
also found that my feet are just shaped wrong for heels, I put the weight
on the wrong part of the foot.  I have some gold ballet slippers (too
small) for really dressy occasions.  Summers are great, sandals are really
the only shoes that fit me properly.

For other people in my situation - there are a few stores now that
specialize in long narrow shoes.  I go to one in Newark that usually has
reasonably high fashion shoes (even 4 inch heels in a size 12) at no more
than 1/3 more than I would pay in a mall.  I usually go and buy about 300
dollars worth at a time.  Who knows when the shoe store will close.  There
is also a store in NY which has a catalog and mail order but their shoes
are about double normal price.
-- 
liz sommers
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