Baby You Were Born This Way!

Face it.  Some folks weren't walking around like ordinary citizens and then suddenly became divas.  Well . . . not most folks.

Typically, the title is earned through blood, sweat, and tears.  Or . . . it's genetic.  You're born with the title by default by diva royalty.

Although even that's not always a given.

Madonna's daughter Lourdes = Diva.  Cher's daughter Chastity now Chaz Bono = not so much.

You know who I'm talking about.  They're not quite the little girls in those pageants you see wearing makeup heavier than tiaras.

They're more like the girls that run around in tutus with magic wands and tiaras when it's not Halloween.

They brush their hair back alot like a shampoo commercial.

They're fussy about their clothes matching.  They have enough baby dolls and Barbies to have stock in Mattel.

And despite all this, they can beat up boys if provoked.

Yes.  THOSE little girls.

They're genetic predisposition is "diva."  They're wired that way from embryos.  But "diva" is such an adult label.  And we all want these precious little darlings to stay little and adorable as long as possible.

So to that end, we bestow upon them another title until they've graduated to "Diva".  It's age appropriate.  Yet it gets the same message across.

It's 'Princess' - the perfect title before graduating to diva royalty.

Homework!

Back in the day,  the school library carried all these magazines.  I really wanted to peruse through "Vogue" and "Bazaar".  

That was just like categorically unacceptable for boys.  

So I was reduced to pretending to be totally absorbed in an issue of "Car and Driver" or "Sports Illustrated"!

YUCK!

Well that was grade school/junior high.  Things changed rapidly.  Fashion became very, Very, VERY important.  

By high school, MTV wasn't just a music video showcase, it was a living and breathing fashion magazine.  

Elsa Klensch was my hero as a fashion journalist that covered fashion designers and fashion shows across the country.  She taught me who the pioneers and designers were like Chanel, Donna Karen, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein.  

I learned terms like 'haute couture', 'basic black', 'classic style', 'cut on the bias', 'hounds tooth', and 'paisley'.   

By college, I knew who all the supermodels were, what was happening in fashion and the  powerful influence of Madonna and Michael Jackson on what us ordinary people wore.  

Today, I am just short of clueless on what is considered the latest and greatest fashions.  I THINK skinny jeans, jeggings and burnout t's are the style of the day.  

I'd look silly in some of today's styles. But since I learned at an early age what 'classic style' is, I just wear the basic classics so I don't get laughed out of social situations.

I did my homework.  ;-)

The Same But Different

Again, huge Madonna fan.  She’s the messiah of look at me, Look At Me, LOOK AT ME DAMN IT!  Her spoof of Marie Antoinette, (another Doodle Diva recurring character), at an awards show back in the 90’s is  one of my all time faves. 

Part of the humor with Doodle Divas is how naïve they can be.  So the relationship between Madonna’s Marie Antoinette spoof and Doodle Divas is actually an ironic one. 

Madonna  wore this onstage to clearly demand attention.  Doodle Divas would wear this to go grocery shopping and be puzzled by all the stares!  ;-)