The Bee’s Knees

By Thursday | Published: March 23, 2009

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From Maya Angelou’s “I rise” (a poem I sim­ply adore)

“Does my sex­i­ness upset you?
Does it come as a sur­prise
That I dance like I’ve got dia­monds
At the meet­ing of my thighs?”

Ever won­der about the ori­gin of the phrase “the bee’s knees” or why rouged knees and rolled stock­ings came into fash­ion? Won­der no more — read this won­der­fully infor­ma­tive blog­post by Jaynie Van Roe and revel in the free­dom of the Roar­ing 20’s! You’ll want to bob your hair, free your breasts, and shimmy shake in fringe and silk stockings!

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3 Comments

  1. Jaynie Van Roe
    Posted March 23, 2009 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Thanks so much for notic­ing — and indulging me in my fash­ion nerdi­ness ;)

  2. autumn
    Posted March 23, 2009 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    hey, cool post! i will come back to look at the ori­gins. roar­ing 20’s is so interesting.

  3. Jade
    Posted March 24, 2009 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    I adore Maya Angelou but had for­got­ten about that poem (one that I love as well.) Thanks for the reminder!

    Jade

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