Originally Posted by
benross
Flo's weight changes were a problem almost as soon as the group became successful, and you can track this on their album cover photos:
On A Bit Of Liverpool, all three women looked very trim in their tight skirts. On At The Copa, less than a year later, notice the fit at the waist of their gowns; Diana's top is clearly sticking out several inches from her waistline, Mary's has just an inch or so to spare, and Florence's top had no extra inches whatsover; it seemed like she was wearing a tight one-piece sheath, not an overblouse and skirt. A year later, on A' Go-Go, Florence appears in hot pink pants, and their snug fit shows that her thighs and hips had swollen a bit more during the preceding twelve months.
Finally, and this was not on an album cover, look at the final photo shoot, made on or about the time of Flo's birthday in '67, with all three in hot pink dresses as they frolic on the desert near Las Vegas. Flo seemed bloated, uncomfortable and unable to improvise the various dance-like poses of the other two. In contrast, while admittedly Cindy was not as svelte as Mary and Diana, through the next several years she never looked stiff and weighed down; she had a gracefulness and ease of movement that Florence could no longer achieve, and she seemed a similar part of the trio.
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