Good looking, so refined

Wed, 09 Jul 1997 19:00:00 +0000

HELENDALE, Calif. -- Daisy Delight, Queen of the Jungle, shimmies out of her leopard-skin robe and shakes her breasts at the crowd below, strutting down the runway in a matching leopard G-string, gold-sequined pasties and a belt of jungle beads. The audience shrieks and whistles with delight, and rightfully so; she's tall, leggy, blond and has, quite frankly, a great pair. It's not until she looks me straight in the eye from three feet away and grins that I notice she's missing a bunch of her teeth. But she's still pretty hot for a septuagenarian.

Welcome to the Miss Exotic World 1997 pageant at the Exotic World Burlesque Museum midway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Like the old Route 66 signs and boarded-up orange juice stands on the way here, Exotic World is an echo of a different era, when Cadillacs had fins and strippers wore gloves, feathers and tasseled pasties.

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Good looking, so refined