“Show us.”
I took a breath. I hadn’t enjoyed modeling except as a one-off experience, but the advice I received came back: shoulders back and still, stomach in, longer strides, toes facing slightly outward, arms close but not touching my torso, hands and fingers relaxed, eyes front, expression neutral. Masculine, relaxed, confident. It was a lot to remember and some hadn’t come naturally. I tried to recall the tempo of the music that had been playing then, jazzed it up a little, and stepped off.
I walked in the wide space between the two rows of tables, turning after the last one and resuming the pose I’d been holding earlier, then stepped forward a few seconds later. I walked past the end of the far table, turned to pose again, then walked back to the center. Several women applauded pol
