Week of 2/9/07:
Fashion Week was filling up the pages of the Post and Daily News. This made for some interesting looking new riders on the train and waiting to board at Penn Station. I use the term "board" ironically, since by the look of these waifs, they haven't used but a fraction of their "room and board" allowance! This reminds me of my favorite model joke: a model walks into a party and announces "I'm starving, I'm so hungry I could eat half a sandwich." I'm talking willowy! One young cat walker was particularly memorable. She was probably 6'3'' in fashionable flats. Wild, long, curled jet black hair that looked like Cher from her battleship video. She had to be all of a size "0" (can you be a minus 1?) in her black jeans with legs the circumference of my arms. She was carrying all the model accessories (water bottle, huge over sized shoulder bag that cost more than my first car, latest issue of Us magazine), and a look that was sort of Angelina Jolie if she was in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. She remained glued to her cell phone. Other fashionistas were a little less striking, but just as narrow of hip. The up side is you can fit 4 or 5 of them in a row that is designed to hold two "normal" adults. I find the whole model size controversy magnified with people like Tyra Banks appearing all over the news to show her new, plumper self and the predictable demise of Anna Nicole Smith, the pathetic train wreck (no pun intended) and Trim Spa spokesmodel.
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