Things I used to think were glamorous

Calgon bath salts
Hollywood (the idea)


Charlie’s Angels
Rhinestones
Perrier
Marina del Rey
Frederick’s of Hollywood
Little guest soaps shaped like roses
Holiday Inn


Shrimp cocktails
Makeup kits with lots of colors
Barbie (and Dawn) in fancy gowns
Beauty pageants
Gigantic mansions
Rodeo Drive
Designer jeans


Shopping malls
André sparkling wine
Mirrored walls
Star sapphire rings
Camay soap
Cosmopolitan magazine


Sizzler restaurant
Day-of-the-week panties
Bubble bath in ersatz champagne bottles
Poodles


Discos
Gold lamé
Glitter
“Beautiful people”
Piaget
Los Angeles magazine
Foreign flags used as decoration (as in the International House of Pancakes)
Air travel


Jockey underwear
Newsstands
Entertainment Tonight
Pat Booth novels
Judith Krantz novels
Being a rock groupie
The Jolly Roger restaurant
VIP rooms
Robinsons-May
Surf and turf


Cookies the size of teacup plates
Long acrylic fingernails
Being a trophy wife
Shoes with pointy toes and heels
White zinfandel


Rembrandt toothpaste
The Hungry Tiger restaurant
Esquire magazine
Sequins
Nightlife
Strawberry daiquiris
Eyeshadow
Tight clothing
Going to Lakers, Kings, and Ducks games
Marrying a professional athlete


Teased hair
Wearing a suit to work every day
Satin shirts worn with high-waisted black pants
Sitting at the bar with “the girls” and gossiping about other people
Ultra-shiny lip gloss
Letting other people tell me what is glamorous
Thinking that good things are out there, far away, and will come someday