My Expiration Date for Pigtails & Booty Shorts

"Confidence...the sexiest thing I put on in the morning." ~author Unknown

The topic of me wearing booty shorts came up over the weekend (...don't ask), and one of the first things that popped into my mind was, "Some things really ought to have an expiration date the way milk and eggs do." While stuff like coloring, bubble baths, cookies, climbing trees, playing in the mud and bunny slippers are timeless, there are other things we should totally "outgrow", i.e. whining, throwing tantrums (not to be confused with a hissy fit, which knows no age limits) pigtails, booty shorts, staying out all night when you have to work the next day, etc. I can almost see my mother rolling her eyes at this from her spot in Heaven, as she was fond of following the fashion trends from the Juniors section of department stores well into her forties. I have no doubt she'd find my ideas about this ridiculously old fashioned and maybe they are, but the older I get, the more I feel that sexy has nothing to do with what you show off. Sexy is a state of mind, an inner peace and confidence in yourself and if executed properly the one displaying it could be wearing a chicken costume and that would not lesson the utter Wowzer impact of uber sexiness.

Some people are from the, "If you've got it, flaunt it" camp, while others, like me, fall into the "If you've got it, you don't need to flaunt it" point of view. I can certainly appreciate the other frame of mind and attitude of self-confidence expressed by "flaunting it" without prescribing to it. I think the point is for all of us to feel comfortable in the skin we're in and express ourselves accordingly. As for me, while I believe I do not have a completely unfortunate booty, it will SO not be hanging out of my britches in public! I gave up pigtails and booty shorts in my twenties...and I gotta say, I don't miss them at all!

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