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I had an interesting question posed to me and since I'm now semi-settled into the new place, I thought I'd use it as an update to my journal....."When did you become fascinated with dressing as Wonder Woman, getting chloroformed or otherwised subdued and then tied up?"
Well, without completely giving away my age ;) I WAS a child of the 70's. This was back when every house wasn't equiped with a playstation, home computer and DirectTV with hundreds of channels. We had to use something that's unfortunately becoming a rarity amongst children today.....our imagination! And BOY did I have plenty of that! I was constantly playing out scenarios with space creatures, cops and robbers, superheros etc. Mom thought I was nuts and needed to get my head out of the clouds, but dad didn't mind and was happy to give us empty big boxes for our spaceships and overlooked the 'fort' we had built in the den with blankets and chairs. My family was by no means rich, so they could never see the purpose is buying me the more expensive bathing suit resembling Wonder Woman's costume, so after begging and begging to no avail, I began making my own.
The one I'll have to say I was most proud of is the one that didn't last long, LOL. It took the longest to put together and only lasted for one day of 'saving the world' but hey, for a kid with little resources in elementary school, it came out pretty good!
It all started out with my being dragged along to a garage sale my mom went too. They lady had these plastic long fern leaves that were glittered in silver for 50 cents. I had brought a couple bucks from my allowance with me and one look at the leaves, I immediately thought "Hey! Those would make an AWESOME eagle for a WW costume!" So I bought them. I had a bathing suit at home that was a solid color (Fuschia, but hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!) added to it a 'jeans' belt, sweat bands for the bracelts and tiara (they were red, white & blue striped) I added a red paper star to each and a red thin nylon puppy leash to my belt for my lasso. No boots, Nikes had to do but the stars were flashy. I drew stars with good old Elmer's glue all over the bottom of the suit, dusting the glue with gold glitter. I had also used the glue for my fern-eagle emblem. Then I was set! I dragged my cousin, Rhonda into my plot as well, she had the same suit only in emerald green. So she was Wonder Girl.
I, as Diana Prince (hair was up, glasses on and I wore a trench coat over my suit) and her as Drusila (in a trench coat) did some spying on the bad guys (aka my brother and the neighbor boys) When we decided they were up to no good, we dashed behind the bushes and spun! I, as Lynda would do, took off my glasses while looking to make sure the coast was clear. Slipped my specs in my pocket and spun. While spinning I whipped my pin outta my hair and threw off my trench coat. Ta Da! There I stood, in my WW costume that would make Crayola proud! LOL
We spent a good 2 hours in battle until the boys got the upper hand......they got a water hose and ambushed us! Off came our eagles and stars! Oh well, it was fun. We called it a day and I without thinking threw my suit, inside out, in the dirty clothes hamper.
Well, mom thought I was looney tunes already for the costume. But was NOT happy when she pulled out her wash load to find gold glitter through out the load! Sometimes my imagination got me into trouble and THAT was definately one of those times!
Well I never gave up hope that one day I would have a GREAT WW costume! In 1998 I moved to SC and we had recently gotten AOL along with cable. The channels we got were new to me and one of them played WW everyday! I had almost forgotten about my childhood hero, but the first time I saw her again, the memories came flooding back! I immediately ran to my pc and did a search. I was amazed to find so much out there on WW and have been sucked into it ever since!
My dream of having a great costume has come true now, I've got one of the best costumes out there. I made the cape myself, and let me tell you, THAT was no small feat! Getting to the question at hand (did you think I was going to dodge it? LOL) I've always been fascinated with dressing up as WW and any other character. I'm an actress, it's what I do. It seems I am fantastic at becoming other people and it's something I thoroughly enjoy. It's a healthy escape from the real world, where you can rest assured that you don't have to worry about what to do or say or how it's all going to end because all of that is pre-determined. When it's over, even if I lost, I can simply change clothes and leave it behind with no condemnation for it.
What everyone needs to understand is that for me, it's not a fetish. Do I like getting tied up or subdued? Eh, it's fun but it's because it's just part of the role, not because of the simple act itself. Do I get off on all of this? No, I don't. Too me, it's an acting role in a skit. I LOVE acting and I'm good at it, if I do say so myself, but it's in no way related to a fetish, no way sexual for me at all. But what can I say? I'm as close to the real Wonder Woman that you will ever find. As we all know, she's tough and firm and can kick major butt, and at the same time, she's got compassion beyond your understanding and a certain innocence about her that allows to to dress in her Amazonian garb and NOT see herself as a sexual being and NOT use it as a tool in combat. True her beauty can be distracting, but it's not because she's doing it on purpose. Maybe THAT's what makes her even MORE attractive :)
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Nice photos, you are a real Wonder Woman!
I´d like to see more pictures of you in action and/or using your super-powers, e.g. fighting, stopping cars, lifting guys, bending guns (this one is my favourite scene!) -
You know, I actually have an Isis costume in the works :) I'll be sure and post a couple pics whenever I get it completely together ;)
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Thanks for the info. You look great as Wonder Woman, and I hope to see more of you in the Satin Tights very soon. And I'd love it if you could act out one of my stories. Anymore thoughts on dressing up as Isis? I think you'd look fantastic! -
It was wonderful to read this update. Before I say anything else let me say
that I fully agree you have the best Wonder Woman suit out there !!!
Reading about your girlhood days reminds me of my days as a boy on a farm
with my 2 brothers playing cowboys and Indians out in woods and pastures
where there was plenty of trees, gullies, and rocks to hide behind and pretend
we were shooting at each other. Plenty of places for the bad guys to hideout.
You introduced this as an interesting question posed to you; certainly you
responded with an answer that is very interesting to read. Makes me wish I
had a sister. Wonder Woman wasn't on TV in those days but I was reading
her comic book all the time. Thanks for sharing your youthful days when
your imagination was running wild...fun to read.
Good luck,,,,,,,,,,,hope to hear from you again soon !!!!!!!!!
10/26/06 8:22 PM
Where are you? We need you !!! It's been so long since an update,,,
Pleeeezzzeee, come through for us soon !!!!!!! We're hurting,,,aching to
see you again soon. Pleeze send us some nice pics of you soon. We
need a Wonder Woman fix. Looking forward to more pics.........
Luv ya,