What's In This Spring:Your bod

Okay, so I'm a pale, non-tanning northerner who loves the ocean. I admit it, I fear the bikini.
I'm sister-in-law to the original salty chix.
Years of visiting her at her beach home taught me something everyone on the shores already knows:
WHAT YOU ARE WEARING IS YOUR BODY.
Now, okay, you think, everyone is wearing her body.
Nuh-uh.
I can honestly say up here bound in by the snow that me and every girlfriend I have wear our clothes--even my fantastically carved out snowboarding girls. We look in the mirror, we adjust our clothes; we use our clothes to complement and flatter. We work with our cut and our color. Our body is the frame and we adjust our fabulous clothes on them.
I hop on a plane and I step foot on Dianne's home shores and I am struck again--oh, yeah, here I wear my body.
The clothes adorn me dancing, walking, and hanging after the swim, boarding and surfing. I'm not second at the shore. I'm first. I'm in this body and that's what I'm wearing--with some Salty Chix shining it up.
Makes a girl want to take care of herself a little better. That's a good thought for 2008!
--Sisterchix