Cruise Models, Front

@Daroru: They were getting wasted in the lounge.

@kostas: Too much of a line up to be mere coincidence, as it turned out.

@MadScientist: Actually, this image is closer to 20 years old. You can't see the photographer in this shot, but he was having them stand this way. My guess is that this pose simulates wearing "heels." It stretches the leg muscles and makes the legs smoother.

@Ras: Indubitably. In fact, when I came upon this scene, I was not at first aware of the photographer, or that it was a professional shoot; and I was wondering just what was up with these women and their posing.

@Calusarus: Actually, it wasn't that upscale. I found this shoot months later in some kind of swimsuit magazine.

@Mike: Thanks.

@JoeB: That's a good analogy.

@Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life: Well, they're probably all grandma's now. BTW, I enjoyed perusing your blog --very clever and well done.

@Ronnie 2¢: Without knowing the particulars of their lives, it seems to me that the only thing sure to stop them from having found happiness, is an insistence on living in the past.

@Barbara: That, in fact, would be a very good caption for this photo. I'd be curious too. But my perceptions and tastes have also changed. Some of the shallowness of youth has left me. These days a good body and superficial beauty is not enough for me. It's not that I don't aesthetically appreciate the youthful form, but that's about as far as my interest goes: "looks" are only a small part of what interests me in a woman now. In fact, as what I have with my wife after 25 years of marriage cannot be duplicated in a lifetime, I have virtually no "romantic" interest in other women. On the other hand, I might well find one or more of these women more "attractive" now, then they were back then, when, to me as a passing spectator, they were the objects of a photographer.