Jersey Shore is a TV show. In it there are several male and female characters who are now the fashion icons for America. Among them is Snookie, who reminds me of the Bronx girls we used to chase and always catch back when I lived in New York in my teens. As young men, filled with testosterone, we would ask the girls in our high school out on dates and would get all kinds of sales resistance. Your car was not good enough, you did not belong to the country club, or you were not a college boy (yet). Or, worst of all, "I don't kiss on the first 23 dates." Drive, walk, or take the subway a few short miles to the Borough of the Bronx and look for women that dressed like this, and have not changed their style in 50 years I might add. As we used to say "She is the kind of girl you could have a good time with even if you played your cards wrong." The song...I can't get no... satisfaction no longer applied once you crossed over from Westchester into the Bronx. So, fast forward to 2011 and we have all sorts of reality TV programs that feature these same girls at various ages. The housewives of New Jersey for example. Cougartown is another. And I guess if you did not mind the constant sound of gum chewing and that accent, one could get used to the cleavage and pole dancer shoes. Maybe the younger guys of today have it figured out after all. We should go ask Debra LeFave.
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