The models, images etc. never influenced me, but I come at this from a somewhat different perspective than most. Like many others I like try to be like the woman I find most desirable, but what I find desirable was/is a bit different than most.
When I started dressing I decided to emulate the real women in my life whom I admired and loved. Some were really thin, some were really large, some older, some were gray haired, some were rather old fashioned etc., none were the "ideal" that is presented to us as a culture but I admired them so much I wanted to be like them. The phony baloney images of women on the cover of magazines and such and never had anything I admired and therefore I never had any desire to be like and emulate them.
