50s Girl In A Modern World

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DorisMayday is not your typical 23-year-old girl. She captured the eyes of Americawhen she was first seen on TLC’s new show ‘My Crazy Obsession,’ publicizing herinfatuation with the 1950s. The episode follows Doris' through her everyday life showing how every aspect of it is surrounded by the 1950s era. Her episode caused so much buzz that just days after its airing, internationally known reporter Anderson Cooper flew her outto New York to have her on his show.Thispinup model was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada by her two parents, whosurrounded her with hot rods and black-and-white movies. Doris spent countlesshours with her grandparents, listening to their childhood stories and dressingup in her grandmother’s clothes. In an interview with TLC Doris reveals thatgrowing up was hard for her, she was bullied because she was overweight,freckle faced and had a gap between her two front teeth. At just 13-years-oldDoris purchased a 50s inspired dress for a school dance that changed her life. “I hadnever felt prettier” Doris tells Anderson Cooper in an interview, “I knew thatthis was how I wanted to look. I wanted to look classy and feminine, I didn’twanna look like my peers.” A pinup photographer and good friend of Doris' said that,"Doris is unique and takes her lifestyle to a whole new level; she's in it full force."At theage of 16 Doris, whose birth name is Ashley, joined a roller derby team. Sheshowed up to the first practice wearing fake eyelashes and had pin-curled hair,realizing that the name 'Ashley' wasn't a suitable name for a derby girl, she came up with Doris Mayday, after thefamous actress and singer Doris Day, from then on the name stuck.            Dorisbegan modelling at the age of 21. In 2009 she was judging a pinup modeling contest when she was asked by the headof Bettie Page Clothing to be a model for their company. Doris then went onfrom being a model to becoming the manager of the Bettie Page Clothing store inthe Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she now lives with herboyfriend Dylan.            Dorisis a collector of anything vintage, her home is filled with vintage goodiesthat go back all the way to the 1930s- her couch, TV, kitchen table and even the curtains are all vintage pieces that she has collected over theyears. Doris does her best to avoid any modern conveniences and has even hired a personal etiquette coach to ensure that she behaves like the perfect, put together woman of the 1950s.Whenasked by Anderson,“why the 50s” Doris replied with,“Idon’t like my generation. I don’t like their music, I don’t like the way theytreat people and I don’t like the way they dress.”           Icontacted Doris hoping to ask her some questions about a MySpace blog post ofhers from February 2007, but she was unable to get back to me.  In the post she vents about a group of girlswho glared and stared at her because of the way that she was dressed. Dorisgoes on to state that,“Corsets,heels, stockings, satin gloves, tight dresses and divine accessories are thingsthat embrace your [womanhood]… and make you OH SO POWERFUL.” Sheprofesses that it is unsettling to her that ladies choose to “hold grudges,talk shit and just be flat out rude to our own gender [when] we don’t even knoweach other."Iwould have liked to asked Doris how she deals with the “glares and stares” now and what she would say to women outthere who are being bullied because they choose to dress a certain way thatis different from the ‘ideal image"of the twenty-firstcentury.
-Keltyn
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Some clips from her 'My Crazy Obsession' and 'Anderson' episodes: