The "sexy librarian" look will be big this fall!!!

[flamingyouth]

At last, at age 35, I will finally be in style!:bounce:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/06/02/modest.clothing.ap/index.html

Shoppers are starting to see higher waistlines and lower hemlines, and tweeds, fitted blazers and layers are expected to be big this fall, Schanen said.

"It's kind of like a sexy take on a librarian," she said. "I think people are tired of seeing so much skin and want to leave a little more to the imagination."

[Pillowbiter]

1. Forget that conservative claptrap

about leaving more to the imagination. I just like more folds of clothes around the exposed parts when I'm getting serious.

PB

[VelmaD]

2. But dammit...

I just got to where I really liked the hip hugger jeans. Goddammit why do they do this to me all the time. Every time I find a look I can live with they decide something else is "in". I don't wanta dress like a librarian. I don't wanta wear tweed. I don't want higher waistlines that don't look good on me. ARGH!!!

[flamingyouth]

3. I don't care about the tweeds

I just want to be able to look sexy in glasses and a sweater at last!

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. I, for one, am REALLY into "sexy librarians"

The imagination is a wonderful thing. :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

5. Damn that lucky Mr. Flamingyouth!

He's a lucky fella.

Mmmmmmm...sexy librarians...geek glasses...:9

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. OK the funny thing is that before I EVER opened the thread I was gonna say

YOU ARE A TRENDSETTER! :D

[flamingyouth]

7. LOL

Well, Teena, you're one of the few DUers who's actually seen me up close and personal-like, so thanks! :D

[cedahlia]

8. "sexy librarian"

That phrase implies that librarians are inherently unsexy. Damn those stereotypes to hell! I'm an aspiring librarian and I know I'm sexy, dammit!! Okay, I do wear the cat's eye glasses 'cause they're cute, but I don't wear my hair in a bun, and I'm not afraid to show some skin when the mood strikes. }( Rowr!!

***edited for grammer!

[GOPisEvil]

9. Oooh...an aggressive, sexy librarian!

Be still my heart!

Cat's eye glasses? *swoon*

[cedahlia]

10. LOL!

Yeah, you have to watch out for us librarians...we are actually a very fun, vibrant, intelligent group of people. We are certainly not the frumpy, mean gals the stereotypes would have you believe! :D

[GOPisEvil]

11. I've got to start hanging out in libraries more often!

:D

[m-jean03]

12. Until somebody

get rowdy, that is!

Then all the angry HUSHING begins!! :D

[flamingyouth]

13. But the hushing is pretty sexy too

Don't you think? :D

[m-jean03]

14. Yeah, unless they are really angry

and threaten to make me leave.
Then I am sad, and I know I won't get a date. :cry:

[cedahlia]

17. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

All of you, be quiet this instant!!!

Heh, amazingly, I've never actually "shushed" anybody during my library career...and I work in the children's department where it is almost never quiet. Sometimes I go upstairs and visit the adult department, which is a different world. I tell them, "wow, it actually sounds like a library up here." Meanwhile, in the distance, I hear the faint sound of screaming and howling coming from the zoo that is the children's department...
:)

[GOPisEvil]

20. Oooooh...I love it when you get all stern!

:silly:

[Sequoia]

23. Hey Librarians! Here's a librarian who was a hero:

The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
by Louise S. Robbins


Review from Library Journal:

<snip>

In 1950, Miss Ruth Brown was dismissed from her job as librarian at the Bartlesville Public Library, OK, a position she had held for 30 years, ostensibly because she had circulated such subversive and communist materials as the Nation, New Republic, and Soviet Russia Today. But many believed the real reason for her firing was due to her efforts to promote racial equality.

<snip>

[sundog]

18. I know where your head's at "Tales of a Librarian" -- huhh?

P.S. Have you seen the new concert DVD?

[cedahlia]

27. concert DVD

Haven't seen it yet, but I plan on buying it. Read a review of it in Rolling Stone today that said it was good, but really intended for the most diehard fans...so it sounds like it will be right up my alley! :)

[sundog]

29. I was in Montreal one winter & saw a great

vid of her "Under the Pink" tour on cable, but it was never available in the US that I'm aware...

Yeah, I've been a big fan for years...

That DVD is a good price, but things have been kinda weird since she went to Sony -- a lot of other videos, etc can't be re-issued on DVD...

[tigereye]

33. what a great icon!

[sundog]

35. thx

:)

[Taverner]

15. Damn Republonazis!

Less is more, and I hate this whole move towards modesty and morality....

There is a reason I refer to my years at Christian school as "the dark years"

[Radical Activist]

16. The librarians in my family will be thrilled

I've always found some librarians to be kind of sexy. :)

[TXlib]

19. Dammit, no pics in this thread...

grr.

[ForrestGump]

26. Found one, but it's NAUGHTY

i.e., not to be opened in mixed company, at work, etc.

And, no, of course I don;t look at this stuff or enjoy it, I'm just providing a public service and...oh, who am I kidding...

Adding 'jpg' to this link will stoke those latent librarian fantasies:

http://www.mature--women.net/tgp2212/23/pics/04

[Ellen Forradalom]

34. Here's a sexy patron asking about a book

Visit Quimby's: www.quimbys.com

[TrogL]

21. My clock just stopped

My God, get that kid into a makeover before she's a spinster for life.

I know that's sexist and all but really she's going out of her way to look ugly - possibly on purpose.

[nemo137]

22. will there be fishnets involved? n/t

[jmowreader]

30. There doesn't need to be

But there does need to be "losing of the pulled-back hair," "less-modest clothing" (there is a middle ground between Britney Spears and chador, and this kid needs to find it, and fast), and "eye shadow."

[SarahB]

24. Should I wear my glasses more now then?

:shrug:

[Forkboy]

25. Well I friggin hope so!

It's a damn fine look :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. YAY!!

I like the sexy librarian look, and I"m sick and tired of seeing young girls walking around with their stomachs and their undies showing looking like crap. Also tired of the women who SHOULDN'T be wearing such things wearing them.

Nothing wrong with a classy look, while leaving the option for half-dressing for those who a) are old enough, and b) can do it tactfully. Sadly, it seems precious few can handle (b).

[Donkeyboy75]

31. Goddam, I hope so!

Not a better look anywhere.

[tcfrogs]

32. You are so right!!!!!!!!!!

So sick of the low slung jeans...rather see the "librarian" look any day!!!!