April 15
...serving up your daily dish.
First Glen Ridge decides to landmark a ranch house. Then we receive an invitation to the Glen Ridge Girls Club Fashion Show next week, which has chosen the improbable theme "Miss America."
Our junior and senior members will be modeling the latest in evening wear, generously donated to us by several local stores. Our senior gentlemen, who will be wearing tuxedos donated by Starlight in Bloomfield, will be escorting our senior girls.
Proof that Glen Ridge is living in a distant quadrant of the time-space continuum? "Miss America" just got the boot from national television.
Can't get enough evening gown competition? Show up at the Glen Ridge Women's Club, 219 Ridgewood Ave. next Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 pm. $10 adults, $5 kids.
Wow - so I guess 17 year old males are "gentleman" and 17 yr old females are "girls"...
Nice.
At least they're not doing swimsuits, I guess.
Posted by: butchcjg | Apr 15, 2005 10:46:05 AM
Ouch, good point Butch!
How about young women...or even young ladies?
Posted by: pam | Apr 15, 2005 10:51:00 AM
Maybe GR is just dumb...
How about changing it to...
"Our junior and senior members will be modeling the latest in evening wear, generously donated to us by several local stores. Our senior BOYS, who will be wearing tuxedos donated by Starlight in Bloomfield, will be escorting our senior WOMEN"
Posted by: pam | Apr 15, 2005 11:08:19 AM
I think calling the boys "gentlemen" and the young women "girls" is a sort of wishful thinking typical of parents of teenagers. Let's not hold it too against them.
Posted by: Lex | Apr 15, 2005 12:55:45 PM
Maybe the GIRLS, and their mothers, are just more advanced in their self confidence than you all and don't have to worry about such trivia!!! And by the way, there actually are teenage GIRLS and BOYS who are well mannered.
And in case you think I am biased, I don't have anyone attached to this event.
Posted by: JG | Apr 19, 2005 8:47:04 PM
