The next day the gang of girls got on the bus and went downtown to shop for clothes for a party that they wanted to take Vanessa to in order to re-acclimate her to life in the projects. Jalissa said that her clothes looked like they came from The Brady Bunch and Vanessa had been embarrassed because she had thought that her clothes were stylish. She liked her peasant skirts and loose fitting blouses but Jalissa said that she should be wearing halter-tops to show that there were some tits beneath her clothes.
They stopped into an urban attire store—one of many that dotted the streets downtown. Vanessa tried on some hip huggers and decided that she did look like she had more of what she didn't.
They got ready for the party at Sal's house and jammed to Prince and Michael Jackson tunes. But when a Teena Marie song came on and Vanessa began singing about Portuguese Love her friends screamed as if they were at a concert.