I remember a high school teacher who thought the Industrial Revolution happened during the ’20s, when the novel "Babbit" was set

September 19, 2004

So, I did the photoshoot for the Faces of Change calendar. I spent about two hours having hair and makeup done, and ended up modeling an $80,000 necklace. I was shot entirely from the shoulders up; “we want you for your eyes!” they said (but not in that horror-movie way).

After that, I modeled a forties-style red satin dress alongside a beautiful Asian model (and college student) named Jane. The photographer looked at us and said, erroneously, “You two look just like flappers!” We both gave him funny looks, because he was clearly two decades off; it would be like if you thought the Sexual Revolution happened during Prohibition, or that legwarmers were in fashion during the Civil War (when “Flashdance” came out!)

His reply was a quite condescending “You girls know what flappers are, don’t you?”

Um, yes.

Funny, at “real” modeling events, I usually end up finding the one other girl with a book and hanging out. There’s sanity in numbers.

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