Fashion Flash: The Return of the Bootay!
Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
by Peggy Butler
PSB COMMUNICATIONS
AUTHOR'S WARNING: The following commentary is a humorous look at a topic we are all familiar with, and is not intended to ridicule those individuals whose hips are a tad beefier than the norm. So relax, exhale and let the shenanigans begin!
As the models made their way down the pier, a spectator noticed the unusual cut of the skirt draped across the buttocks of the willowy ingenue. To the delighted admirer, the skirt stood up unusually high, leading him to conclude that the designer created a special undergarment to produce the elevated affect.
After the show ended, the man who identified himself as a clothing buyer, asked the designer about the unique and unusual undergarment.
Unique because it could not be detected under the sheerest garment, and unusual because of the gravitated affect it gave the derriere. Stunned by the buyer's observation, the designer laughed as he explained the "mystery" behind the model's rear end. Five seconds into the conservation, the buyer discovered that what the model wore was not a garment, but something that all of us possess whether real or artificial, hips.
Is that thing real? Oh the horror, Oh the cellulite, run for your lives.
As the models made their way down the pier, a spectator noticed the unusual cut of the skirt draped across the buttocks of the willowy ingenue. To the delighted admirer, the skirt stood up unusually high, leading him to conclude that the designer created a special undergarment to produce the elevated affect.
Unique because it could not be detected under the sheerest garment, and unusual because of the gravitated affect it gave the derriere. Stunned by the buyer's observation, the designer laughed as he explained the "mystery" behind the model's rear end. Five seconds into the conservation, the buyer discovered that what the model wore was not a garment, but something that all of us possess whether real or artificial, hips.
Is that thing real? Oh the horror, Oh the cellulite, run for your lives. Yep hips. They can be flat as pancakes, taunt as leather, flabby as jello, high as the ceiling, round, curvaceous or sagging. Anyway you slice it, we're talking about the derriere, keester butt, behind, bootay or whatever you prefer to call it.
For years the Black and Hispanic community has witnessed the onslaught of the bootay from Detroit to San Francisco. To put it more bluntly, women of African and Hispanic descent have been blessed with butts that defy logic. Do the names J.Lo, aka, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and Serena Williams ring a bell? Today, ample bottoms are so popular, they reportedly prompted a surgical procedure called the Brazilian Butt lift, that puts a little more junk into the rear ends of women with small hips, or those who just want a little more jam in their jelly.
A Blast From The Past
For years women with huge rear ends have been the butt of jokes, pardon the pun, ranging from the bizarre to the demented. However, some of the jokes are typically common.
Three examples we've heard over the years are: Man, if a fire broke out and someone yelled haul a.. she'd have to make two trips.
Another popular joke is, Did you see the tail on that whale? And rounding up the rear is this tired but humorous pun: That's too much butt for one man to handle. You need four men just to get your arms around that monster. Now these women are no longer ashamed of their butts. But can models who possess larger than average butts find happiness in the modeling industry? The answer is yes and no.
It was in 1991 that the fashion industry got its first taste of "The Bootay". The model was Beverly Peele, who flexed her unusual rear end in the August 1991 issue of Elle magazine. Sixteen at the time, the eight page layout featured Peele in a Robert Mannino thong bikini clutching flowers to her breasts.
When viewing the photo spread whether you were male or female, the feature that captures everyone's attention was her butt. On viewing the photo, a photographer described Peele's rear end as seeming to stretch for miles on end. She has what he characterized as a "high butt." A high butt indeed. And although Peele and her butt made headlines, with the exception of full-figured models, hips measuring 35 inches and under is still the norm in the modeling industry. However, when a Bootay turns up in popular magazines it still garners attention.
So whether it's Beyonce shaking her bootay to the pulse of Baby Boy, or scantily clad dancers shaking their groove thing in rap videos, there's no doubt that the bootay is back. And it's rounder, squishier and more popular than ever.. So now women who previously crammed themselves into girdles, subjecting themselves to the torture of nylon and rubber are now throwing them away. And letting it all hang out one cheek at a time, making way for the Bootay in all its gluteus maximus grandeur. Bravo!
For years the Black and Hispanic community has witnessed the onslaught of the bootay from Detroit to San Francisco. To put it more bluntly, women of African and Hispanic descent have been blessed with butts that defy logic. Do the names J.Lo, aka, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and Serena Williams ring a bell? Today, ample bottoms are so popular, they reportedly prompted a surgical procedure called the Brazilian Butt lift, that puts a little more junk into the rear ends of women with small hips, or those who just want a little more jam in their jelly.
A Blast From The Past
Three examples we've heard over the years are: Man, if a fire broke out and someone yelled haul a.. she'd have to make two trips.
Another popular joke is, Did you see the tail on that whale? And rounding up the rear is this tired but humorous pun: That's too much butt for one man to handle. You need four men just to get your arms around that monster. Now these women are no longer ashamed of their butts. But can models who possess larger than average butts find happiness in the modeling industry? The answer is yes and no.
It was in 1991 that the fashion industry got its first taste of "The Bootay". The model was Beverly Peele, who flexed her unusual rear end in the August 1991 issue of Elle magazine. Sixteen at the time, the eight page layout featured Peele in a Robert Mannino thong bikini clutching flowers to her breasts.
When viewing the photo spread whether you were male or female, the feature that captures everyone's attention was her butt. On viewing the photo, a photographer described Peele's rear end as seeming to stretch for miles on end. She has what he characterized as a "high butt." A high butt indeed. And although Peele and her butt made headlines, with the exception of full-figured models, hips measuring 35 inches and under is still the norm in the modeling industry. However, when a Bootay turns up in popular magazines it still garners attention.
So whether it's Beyonce shaking her bootay to the pulse of Baby Boy, or scantily clad dancers shaking their groove thing in rap videos, there's no doubt that the bootay is back. And it's rounder, squishier and more popular than ever.. So now women who previously crammed themselves into girdles, subjecting themselves to the torture of nylon and rubber are now throwing them away. And letting it all hang out one cheek at a time, making way for the Bootay in all its gluteus maximus grandeur. Bravo!
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