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Permalink Reply by Randi Upton on August 15, 2012 at 1:32am

USA, Southern California. Before you think that's awesome, I live in Riverside County. The armpit of SoCal. Working on moving to Hollywood, will be there next month. Everyone here is tan/bronze/orange, so ever since high school I have been made fun of for my pale skin and SPF200. But I love who I am and so does my dude, so that's all that matters.

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Permalink Reply by Desilu on August 16, 2012 at 1:30pm

lol, Randi - Baldwin Park is the armpit of the San Gabriel Valley, so I totally get that. The girls here are all over the place - alot of gang influence, but the apparel is not as bad as it was when I was younger (cholitas had the mile high bangs, sharpied on eyebrows, tight ass jeans and t-shirts with gang crap on them). Now the girls are punk, emo, whatever, but they are all into the tight SHORT (barely covering their hoohah!) dresses, tight muffin top jeans, skimpy tops... omg, it's scary. Half the girls I work with wear jeggings with tops (and of course, they are the wrong size - muffin tops abound! But me in my high-waisted leggings looks better than they do because my clothes fit me and I'm no longer allowed to wear them because leggings are unprofessional. *sigh* what're you going to do??). Maybe we can meet in Hollywood sometime to send some elegance and beauty into the world, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Randi Upton on August 16, 2012 at 6:43pm

I would be totally all about that! Dinner and cocktails at the Rainbow Room!

And I remember the cholitas style... Dickies... Ugh.

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Permalink Reply by Tahitia Belle Fille on August 16, 2012 at 8:53pm

I live just outside of Toronto in Canada. I have to say that I've never been complimented on my outfits before I started wearing PUG, but now I can count on it happening almost every single time I wear an outfit of PUG's in public, from friends AND strangers and passerby's alike.

Just this past Friday when I went to an Art Crawl in my new Netti Dress in Tiki print I was stopped so many times on the side walk by women saying how much they loved the dress, and my husband even overheard more than a few women whisper to their men how much they loved it too, too shy to actually say it outloud apparently. :)

Brandi's definitely right that you have to dress for yourself, and if you feel right at home in the look then that's all that matters. We have a few rockabilly girls around here, and a good burlesque community that lives for the pinup style, though I wouldn't mind seeing it catch on even more so in the Great White North.:)

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Permalink Reply by Nicky Horley on August 18, 2012 at 1:51pm

Hi, I'm live in England, uk , it a little place called Kent. It's about 1hr train ride away from London xxx

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Permalink Reply by Viola Von Kitten on August 23, 2012 at 8:09am

Hi ! 

I live in Montréal QC Canada since june but before that I was in Paris, France. 

I used to live in a small city in France and the people were acting like jerks when I used to dress up PUG style. You know pointing fingers at me and laughting ... not cool ! 

In Paris it wasn't as obvious but you still get starred at and not always in the best way.

In Canada it's pretty cool people don't give a shit so far I love it :)

Viola

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Permalink Reply by Oh Cheri! on August 23, 2012 at 9:49am

I'm too shy to actually wear any PUG styles but I've just started sewing as a hobby and my first project was a little dress (for my 6 year old niece) with a pin-up girl inspired design. Olivia loved it and wore it two days straight before her mom had to insist on washing it :)

I live in the San Francisco bay area and I see lots of girls rocking the PUG style. Maybe some day soon I'll make a dress for myself and find an event where I can feel confident to wear it.

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Permalink Reply by Soozi Qu on August 25, 2012 at 9:57am

Natasha be brave and own your style. If people stare, take it as a compliment. You'll become impervious to it after awhile anyways. And it's always a nice feeling to know that you have taken the time and trouble to dress nicely when many women these days don't!

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Permalink Reply by Soozi Qu on August 25, 2012 at 5:22pm

Exactly! And people used to make comments about me not dressing as casually as them. So then I coined the phrase..."I never miss an opportunity to overdress!" It stopped them in their tracks and I became known for the way I dress. Now I'm seen as normal because that's how people expect me to dress! Reverse psychology??? LOL

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Permalink Reply by Jen Robinson on August 25, 2012 at 11:14pm

"I never miss an opportunity to overdress!"

I love this!

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Permalink Reply by Zoe N on September 8, 2012 at 9:13am

I'm in Sheffield, North Endland : )

I get stares and comments from people, mostly positive : / when people stare at me I try and think that it's positive stares rather than "what does she look like" stares!

There aren't many people locally who dress like me, everyone here is pretty much identikit, daywear is skinny jeans and uggs, evening wear is tiny skirts, tiny tops and stripper shoes. I guess that's why I get stared at, cause I'm not in head to toe Topshop!

Glad there are others out there like me xoxo

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Permalink Reply by Lucy Sunshine on November 23, 2012 at 11:06am

Nashville, TN here. There is quite a thriving car culture/ rockabilly/ pin up scene here, and I have very recently fallen in with them. I do tend to enjoy a good dive bar, so I can sometimes garner a bit of attention in my beloved redneck karaoke bar! Never really been one to care all that much, though. 

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