GlamourByLBD Note: This past summer, I strolled into Barnes and Noble to find something new to read. Being the transplanted Southern Belle that I am, “Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On” caught my eye. I picked it up and did not put it back down until I finished reading it, less than a day later! I enjoyed it so much that I emailed the author, Shellie Rushing Tomlinson and we are now cyber pals half a country away. The thing about the book that makes it so funny and heartwarming at the same time is that the author is the gen-you-ine real deal. She shares her life, her faith and her recipes in much the way you would share with a close friend in the south…with a cup of coffee or sweet tea and a piece of fresh peach pie!
Since GlamourByLBD is a fashion site, I thought it appropriate to share Shellie’s Mama’s advice on wearing jeans. Just make sure you swallow your sweet tea before you start reading or it is liable to come squirting out of some orifice when you burst out laughing!
Excerpt from “Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On” by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson.
Just for the fun of it, please take a moment to imagine how fond my dear Mama is of today’s pants-around-the-knees look. Alas, very few people have their pants up around their waist the way Mama and the Good Lord intended. The poor woman is still reeling from an article I read to her from one of the ladies’ magazines. In this fine piece of journalism, it said high fashion experts were now saying that area back there, and I’m trying to do this as delicately as possible, that line where the Good Lord split ‘us- it was being declared “the new cleavage”!
Lord, have mercy. Hand me the smelling salts, Scarlett. If my Mama had caught my sisters and me wearing those barely-there britches she would’ve given us a few quick wedgies before taking us to the bedroom for a heart to heart. By the way, it’s bad enough to see young girls in those super low riders but I’ve seen my share of grown women who were old enough to know better showing their back door cleavage and someone should really tell ‘em it hardly looks “new.”
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I talked Shelley into moving her discussion board over to a Ning site so we could all join in the 2008 way! You know, social networking! You just must click here to join us on the porch!
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I just love sheath dresses. They are very versatile–wear them as well with a jacket as without. Prefer a scarf or shawl? That looks great too! Sheath dresses are also very flattering to most body types because they are feminine by design…they accentuate the right curves in the right places while providing a column that does not cut the draw the eye where we don’t want attention! 
