LEGION LADIES MODEL LINGERIE.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer NEWHALL - They made it home from the big wars, but it's anyone's guess how many of these grizzled griz·zled adj. 1. Partly gray or streaked with gray: a grizzled beard. 2. Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray. guys will survive two bombshells named Joanie and Irma. These women redefined sexy Thursday in an impromptu dress rehearsal dress rehearsal n. A full, uninterrupted rehearsal of a play with costumes and stage properties. dress rehearsal Noun 1. for Saturday night's American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Ladies Auxiliary lingerie show, featuring models who, let's say, have a decade or two on those Calvin Klein Noun 1. Calvin Klein - United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942) Calvin Richard Klein, Klein upstarts. ``I'm wearing this boa,'' said 55-year-old Joanie Hughes, showing off a black lacy nightie. ``I mean this thing is slit up to there. Let me tell you, I need those feathers.'' Irma Cazares wore pantyhose under her black G-string, but the view was eyepopping nonetheless as the fringe of her leopard skin teddy swished and swayed. And the 37-year-old Legion Hall bartender pulled it off, her neckline neckline The line that connects the two lowest points on the intermediate declines of a head-and-shoulders chart pattern. In an inverted head-and-shoulders formation, the neckline connects the two intermediate tops. plunging down to there as she vamped. ``This is so much fun, but I'm not sure some of these guys can take it,'' Cazares laughed, tossing a glance at her patrons - proud veterans at their watering hole this day, debating just how the heck the women get into these lacy fabrications. Hughes had modeled some in her sorority sorority: see fraternity. days but at the rehearsal she said she was a tad nervous returning to the runway, strutting strut v. strut·ted, strut·ting, struts v.intr. To walk with pompous bearing; swagger. v.tr. 1. To display in order to impress others. her stuff before the paying guests who will crowd into the green vinyl booths in the legion hall for this kind-of-annual show. But the pair, who will join four other members of Ladies Auxiliary Unit 507 as models, strutted, wiggled and blew kisses. They showed no inhibition when occasionally a little extra skin was revealed as they paraded in barely-there offerings from the Naughty But Nice boutique in Canyon Country. And they saw no irony in the fact the Saturday night's show is intended to raise money for four girls who will take part in Girls State, a youth in government leadership program sponsored by the auxiliary. ``It's such a good cause'' was a common refrain among the women organizing the event. They spoke enthusiastically of both the youth program and its sponsor, the lingerie show. Clearly, for girls ages 5 to 75, there's a certain satisfaction in being able to frolic Frolic - A Prolog system in Common Lisp. ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/frolic.tar.Z. in one's PJs. So far, about 60 tickets have sold for the 6 p.m. show. Admission costs $5 in advance and $7 at the door. The legion hall is at 24527 Spruce St. in Newhall. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- 5 -- color) Irma Cazares, left, and Joan Hughes will be on the runway during the lingerie show put on by the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary this Saturday, flaunting flashy numbers from the Naughty But Nice boutique in Canyon Country. Photos by Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer Graphic by Traci Wooden/Staff Artist |
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