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By Christina VanGinkel

Watching an awards show on television, I came to one conclusion, and that was stylish fashion, representative of days past when glamour was important, is possibly having a revival. It is about time was my main reaction! The dresses that most of the women were wearing were absolutely gorgeous. Fabrics that shimmered, that moved with the bodies they were covering. Fabrics that seemed to speak the words elegant, glamour, yet understated all at once.

Fashion is a word that can mean about as many different things as there are people walking the earth. What is stylish and fashionable to one group of people may be crass and tactless to another. There have been periods though when the fashions that the average women wear seem to appeal to a wider range of people, when they evoke a sense of class and not trash. When a dress that is sexy, provocative even mainly leaves the majority of those feelings to the imagination; do you know what I mean? The material is often luxuriant, while the cut may even be a bit daring, such as a bit high on the thigh, or low on the back, but the bodice covers the bosom. Yep, I use the word bosom. There has been actual thought put into the design, to the concept of how it will fit the body, to how it will move, what it will cover, and yes, what it will expose.

I was noticing the fashions I think because of another show I recently watched on TV. It was one of those shows where the goal is to have a couple find true love. My daughter said true love is not the end goal. She said it is to go on a date where someone else picks up the tab. I guess I am old fashioned in the thinking that if someone is going to the trouble to go on national television to find a date, that they must surely be looking for love. Anyways, to get the date, they have to choose quickly from among a group of other contestants, with their decisions often based on nothing more than their first impressions, which is often nothing more than how they are dressed, and maybe a few words spoken. Well, that the girls on the show were a bit underdressed, or the word I used a few sentences back, trashy, would be an understatement, as some of them hardly seemed dressed at all. The girl's normal attire seemed to be a halter style top, think small, itty-bitty bikini, and a pair of shorts so high on the backside that I would not even answer my own door in something like that. Heck, I would not wear something like that in the privacy of my own bedroom, yet here they were wearing it to meet this fellow for the first time, and on national television.

Let me backtrack and say that I am not a prude, far from it. I just believe that a bit of allure, things left to the imagination shall we say, are more sexy than any pair of bosoms spilling out left, right, and over the top. So when I saw the fashions that many of the young, and middle aged ladies for that matter, were stepping out with on the awards show, all I could think of was I hoped a few of the girls from the other show were watching. They would be able to see first hand just how fantastic a bit of fabric on a body can be. That the idea of clothing that is more than a strap or two needing constant tugging to keep it place, lest they have a Janet Jackson type moment, can be alluring, beautiful even.

As I was watching the show, my oldest son and a few of his friends stopped by, and when they walked through the room I was watching television in, it was at the precise moment that several ladies stepped onto the runway in several of these fashions. These young people came to as top and actually commented on how beautiful several of the girls were. There was not snickering, no laughs, just honest comments on how pretty this one girl looked, and how they never noticed how pretty another one was, even though they had all just seen her in some show. Clothes can define a style, and if we are all lucky, maybe a few of the fashions from years past are once gain coming to call.