Think we have a win on one?: #finelines #plotfinder #shelfdiscovery #jezebel

Okay, Bridgit B. says:

Ooh, I know the second one! (I think.) I'm pretty sure it's "A Matter of Pride" by Dorothy Simpson, if it's the one where the main character(Janey?) orders some shoes from a mail-order catalog and everyone tells her they're inappropriate.

Will email original asker and see if this is in fact so. Now the first one is weirdly torturing me? The drag racer/Yale theme rings distant bell.

The book was set in Maryland. The heroine was a cheerleader/all around good girl who gets...