![]() Just because you’re a girl doesn’t mean you have to wear a dress every day.” “Thank God we did,” Thomas says after a brief fit of laughter, noting that TLC was never again offered an Essence cover, “because there’s so many females out there who don’t feel comfortable wearing dresses, but you’re still feminine. ‘Since you like us, then put us on the cover the way we are and don’t try to change us.’ I remember being at the photo shoot, and I didn’t see anything that we would wear and it didn’t work out. “We said, ‘That’s not how we dress that’s not our style.’ We were hoping we could work it out. “We were so excited that they wanted to put us on the cover, but they wanted us to wear dresses,” Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas recalls. The pioneering girl group was catching fire with its quadruple-platinum debut, “Ooooooohhh … On the TLC Tip,” when the trio was offered the cover of Essence magazine. No scrubs, no dresses: The two big no’s in the TLC canon. In this Jphoto, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, left, and Tionne "T-Boz” Watkins of TLC pose for a portrait in New York to promote their self-titled album. ![]()
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