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Tznius???
DIR By: StoryGod
Date: January 4, 2020, 8:51 pm
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Tikvah and Albina sat in the penthouse at the end of the night.
Somehow Albina was always the last Suite Advisor to call
"curfew!" Tonight would be no different. Tikvah sat looking at
Amazon. Buying tights was not easy. Many of them came in prints
that Tikvah did not want. Some came in bright red or pink. This
really was not a problem because Tikvah wore red and pink
shirts and sweaters, but more often red and burgundy. She simply
did not care for bright pink. Red felt more serious. There were
also no green, yellow, royal blue, or burgundy tights in the
packages. The bigger problem was size. Tikvah was a girl's
medium to large. The right size did not always show up, and
sometimes she took an extra-large.
"OK, I guess the package is out. The most expensive tights are
the ones that will sit in your drawer. Let's see what we can do
with your fifty dollars, and get you a nice variety of colors."
Tikvah wondered if this was the end of tznius. She pictured
herself in red tights, knowing they would match a red poloshirt
and leave her feeling confident, and independent. Wearing tights
at all was a badge of the fight continuing and a small victory.
With tights running seven to nine dollars apiece plus taxes,
Tikvah could order five pairs which was more than she had when
she left New Square. They would also be her current size,
because Albina insisted she buy them a bit big if possible. That
meant Tikvah was finally an extra large, which was the end of
girls sizes. "What happens if I get bigger?" she asked.
"You shop in the grown up woman's department and become the
smallest size, and for a while nothing fits. I've been there. A
lot of grown women have."
Tikvah then had to pick out the colors. She bought two navy
blue, one red, one green that had to be the right shade, one
royal and there was money left for a pair of burgundy tights as
well. There would be no white tights this time. They got
disgusting looking. She realized she was sick of white, and this
school unlike the one in New Square did not have rules about
tights colors. Corianne usually wore pants and sandals to school
so her ankles and feet were bare to the world. Tikvah was
actually glad she got to pick out tights colors. She was not
sure why it was different from having to select food every day.
She wondered if her tati would understand.
#Post#: 159--------------------------------------------------
Re: Tznius???
DIR By: StoryGod
Date: March 13, 2020, 9:37 am
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"My God you look fantastic!" cried out Albina as Tikvah modeled
a pair of red tights that she has scrunched into under her blue
skirt. The tights were comfortable and Tikvah imagined them with
her red polo shirt. The match was nearly exact. She had both
blue and gray skirts so that made two outfits. The light green
tights came from a different manufacturer. They too matched the
light green and navy blue striped polo shirt that went inside
Tikvah's light green sweater. Her mother hated that color. "Too
bad," thought Tikvah who tried on the royal and the burgundy
tights next. They all fit.
"Five for five," chirped a happy Albina. They stood in her room.
Kadie, who was more like a gym teacher in a secular school than
like a mora, was watching the rest of the suite. Tikvah's
package of tights from Amazon gave her undivided and precious
attention.
"OK, put the tights away and meet me upstairs," Albina ended the
meeting. Attention came only in short spurts. Tikvah thought of
the day's swim class. She was again swimming down to the end of
the pool with the very dark skinned black girl who must have
been in high school. The girl wore a black bathing suit and
splashed a lot when she did the crawl. She also sometimes swam
without going anywhere in the water, a trick, that would have
made Tikvah think of sinking, except Tikvah hadn't sunk yet. She
didn't even worry about drowning when she swam in water over her
head. She really did that now.
She wondered how she could explain her triumph to tati. Would he
even care? He tended to think everything that happened at
Kotiah-Yovanovitch was bad because it was secular. Good things
happened in secular schools too. The really bad stuff happened
on TV, at movie theaters, and in fast food and somewhat
expensive restaurants that pretended not to be fast. School
might be the best thing the secular world had to offer. Of
course school, secular school, probably didn't exist when the
rabbis wrote the Bible or the Talmud. That was why they
overlooked it. Secular school was a modern, American thing. It
was HaShem, offering Tikvah one more way to survive. Yes, that
was it, when she really thought about it.
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