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Enjoying Those Teenage Years- Tuesday, period 5

Brooke was the first one in the class today, sort of wondering where Haley was when she needed her. But once everyone had settled in, she said, "Hi, guys. Our teacher seems to be doggified, so you get to listen to me go on for a little while. We're supposed to talk about clothes, which is my absolute favorite subject. So personally, I think you just need to be true to yourself and your personality when you dress. Even if it means you dress in all black all the time and look at people all glowery, just know that you might get funny looks back.

"Clothes are an expression, so you just have to know that the way you dress tells other people about you. If you wear nothing but low-cut shirts and short skirts to a job interview.... well, okay, you might get the job, but it's not for the right reasons," Brooke said. "If you dress slutty, people might think you are. True, this might be what you want, but there is a time and a place. It's like wearing your school uniform to a party, or going on a first date in sweats. You just don't do it, because it's not appropriate for the setting. So what we're doing today is, I have a trunk here filled with ~~fully moddable~~ clothes. You'll put together what you think is a good first date outfit, then pair up and see what the other person thinks it says about you, and whether you stand a chance of getting any with it."

And as an afterthought, she said, "Oh! Almost forgot, but it's important: please wear underwear. Okay, I know, I know, there are times it's not needed or you don't want to or whatever, but if you have any chance of looking like Britney Spears throughout 2007, either go for the pretty stuff instead for once, or wear some damn pants."

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Fashionably.

Angela Montenegro

Rikku has no fashionable icons. Rikku has no fashion sense. Rikku facepalms in atonement.

This is the best outfit Michael ever wears. He looks stupid in suits.

Jo only has one dressy icon, but then she thinks flannel is a valid fashion choice.

Ned

Chuck Bass

MOST FASHIONABLE OUTFIT EVER.

Jeff Murdock, who feels overly patterned shirts are the fashionable wave of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

John Sheppard, who needs to wear those jeans and that jacket more often.

Yamanaka Ino

Warren Peace

Dean Winchester

Bumblebee

Though it's a class thing, so it's not very long in Brooke's hands. Um, not dirty.

Ned had a raccoon running around on his desk. She kept making quiet chittering noises at the lecture. Seems she found Brooke's lecture a little...laughable.

Ned kept trying to quiet her.

Edited 2008-08-12 12:00 (UTC)

Chuck wasn't paying attention to the lecture (because he already totally knew how to dress) but he was enjoying the view.

After his chat with Hannibal, John was really not feeling like looking at Brooke during her mini-lecture. There were some visuals he just didn't need.

Warren didn't see anything wrong with dressing in all-black and looking at people all glowery.

In fact, it was one of the things he did very, very well.

He was used to the funny looks back, at least.

Bumblebee thought of Ironhide and made a strange noise that could pass as laughter, optics flashing brightly blue for a moment.

Check out the clothes, dress yourself up!

After the pointers from Blair and a few weeks in 2008 Angela was pretty sure she could pull together something date-appropriate.

She stuck an arm into the trunk and pulled out the first thing that came to hand. "Ew (http://slidingintohome.blogspot.com/2008/02/now-thats-one-ugly-shirt.html)"

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Ooooh, clothes! And so many of them were in such bright, pretty colors!

It was entirely possible that Rikku was allergic to fashion.

Ned wasn't the most fashionable. But, he was tall so a lot of things didn't fit him. In the end, he ended up with a pair of pants that fit him (http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3166716&cp=1760781.1760811&pg=1&ab=ln_men_cs1_pants&parentPage=family) and a shirt (http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3170135&cp=1760781.1895467&ab=ln_men_cs1_rugbys&parentPage=family) that didn't make him feel too dumb.

Kaylee chittered. He took that as approval.

Pair up, pretend you're Finola Hughes.

Angela thought she'd found a pretty nice outfit (http://bp1.blogger.com/_xwg_0unzUao/R3w69OInraI/AAAAAAAAAZI/1m9vZRqEALI/s1600-h/Outfit16.jpg). Question was, did anyone else think so...

"Ooooh, I like!" Rikku bounced. "It's all dark and slinky. With the funky little jewelry. Funky jewelry makes everything better."

She posed, wearing an orange ombre dress, dangly orange earrings, and bronze patent-leather wedges. "I feel like I need more accessories," she said, frowning.

Everyone should just be very happy she hadn't tried to work in the lime green rain boots.

"Oh, that dress is such a gorgeous bright colour," Angela enthused. She may not share Rikku's desire to go all out in flame orange, but it is a lovely shade.

"Maybe we can find some chunky bracelets in there," she said.

"Do you think?" Rikku grinned. "I bet we could. Should we go metal or plastic? Oooh, and what shoes are you getting?"

Shoes were essential. Even Rikku knew that much.

(OOC: must crash, zomg, sorry to tag-and-run, SP okay?)

Edited 2008-08-12 09:31 (UTC)

"I think metal," Angela said thoughtfully. "... So long as there isn't too much jingle. It gets distracting in date situations. Maybe even in a bronzy colour to sort of match your shoes."

"I was thinking about boots of some kind."

"Ooooh, boots!" Rikku bounced, sifting through the piles of shoe boxes eagerly. "What kind? Tall ones? Ankle boots? Suede? The --"

She stopped short, pulling out a pair of patent-leather patchwork shoes. "Okay, these aren't boots, but I so want these," she sighed.

"How about these (http://www.bluefly.com/pages/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=2083104657&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1159&N=1159+4294967268&Nao=36&Ne=10&Ns=Popularity%7c0%7c%7cProduct%2bCode%7c1&Nu=Product+ID)?" Angela asked, pulling one boot out of the trunk.

God knows where the other one was at.

Ned wasn't about to parade around but he did try to tone down how uncomfortable he felt in clothes that weren't his.

Brooke's around.

Romeo didn't entirely mean to stop by after class. He went for a walk on his break at work, and he went in circles for a bit until he ended up in the classroom, and the bunny who was Dojima seemed to rather vociferously believe they belonged there. (She didn't bite. Exactly. But she made it clear she would.)

So there he was, bouncing a bunny from arm to arm and waiting for Brooke to finish up.

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"Hey there," Brooke greeted him, and added proudly, "I didn't blow up the class!"

Romeo made a show of looking around. "It seems to all be on one piece and everything," he teased. "Should I congratulate you?"

The rabbit twitched her ears to remind him she was there. "Anyhow, this is Dojima. She's ... indisposed, but I think she wanted me to stop in this class."

The rabbit looked smug. Yes, that had been what she wanted, thank you, and if Brooke wanted to pet her she wouldn't even mind.

"You totally should," she said, peering at the bunny, like she was looking for the resemblance or something. "Was there some sort of memo I missed about turning into an animal this week? Did I miss out on a trend?" Because thank god.

"Then congratulations," he said. "If there was, I missed the memo too. But it seems like everywhere I go this week someone is carrying about some strange pet that's normally a person."

The bunny peered back at Brooke. There wasn't any particular resemblance to the human Dojima, which was probably for the best both for the girl and for the rabbit.

"I was a shrew back in May, so maybe I was just ahead of the curve."

"Yeah, the teacher for this class is a puppy at the moment," she said, reaching over to pet the bunny lightly without thinking. "...A shrew? Like, 'bitter old'?"

Romeo half-scowled. "Like, a little rodent with a long nose." He patted the bunny. "She put me in a hamster ball and watched me run into walls."

"The other kind of shrew would suck in an entirely different way."

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Brooke tried not to laugh. "Okay, I'm sorry, but that would have been really funny to watch."

"It'll be your turn sometime, Davis," he informed her, but he was smiling. It probably had been pretty funny.

"Oh, no, it won't," she said, sobering quickly. "I'm very happy as a human girl, thanks."

"Then maybe you'll be lucky," Romeo said. He didn't want to doom Brooke further by talking about this too much, after all.

"I should try to get back to work before it's time to close," he added. "Wish me luck on the journey?"

"Good luck," Brooke said seriously. "Though if you end up somewhere cooler than where you need to go, just stay there. Much safer."

"Probably a good idea," he agreed with a smirk. "And with any luck, Dojima and Ms. Scherbatsky will both be in class as themselves next week."

Brooke crossed her fingers. "Bye, guys." Yes, she said it to the bunny, too.

I'm tired, game. Damn Olympics.

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