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Lady Mekaella received a humanities certificates from both Harvard & The Smithsonian Institute, while topless with a bottle of wine and a cat in her lap. She's a traveling showgirl known as Florida's Naked Nerd.  She's now working on her second certification class for historians from Harvard via online classes during Covid19 shutdowns.

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Decolettes or Disgrace?

5/17/2020

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In 1913, Blossom Browning was arrested for wearing a skirt with a slit a few inches above the knee received a fine of $25 for indecent exposure. $25 in 1913 is worth $647.45 today. She had to have multiple female friends help pay her bail
In 1890 Cora Hayes was arrested for wearing a too low cut Decolette Dress, that's right, an EVENING GOWN, FORMAL WEAR, as indecent exposure & it cost her $10, so today $281.75.....When Sergeant Anthony Shilling still demanded she appear in court, as he "wanted the matter{the dress} to be tested" she politely declined by not showing up to have her time wasted. Good for her.

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I will be honouring these women today by wearing clothes with my knees visible and my cleavage well framed. What will you wear today that would get you arrested in Cora & Blossoms time? How will you honour them?
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