Escándalo

You know that famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe from "The Seven Year Itch"? She accidentally steps onto a subway vent just as the train passes underground, and her white crepe dress goes soaring. She giggles, probably, gasps, bends to cover just enough of what needs covering, and then stands there for entirely too long.

In a nation that raises its collective eyebrows at women in shorts, on whose every lamppost and public bulletin board hang public service posters that read "MACHISMO MATA," on a crowded street during rush hour, I committed the number one error of city skirt-wearing.

And for the record, it's not sexy in real life.


Maybe if it had been a white crepe haltar dress and not a green Target skirt with pockets.