Fancy Dress: Fancy This Fancy That Fancy Lace Bits And Silk Bits And Tutus Created Out Of Tinfoil

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Idaho Shakespeare Festival costume shop. Midsummer. She was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, as the author of the work of short fiction The Traditional. TheNew York Timesbestselling anthologyUnnatural Creatures; Magonia; and Magonia’s sequel, Aerie, Maria Dahvana Headley is a memoirist, novelist, and editor, most recently of the novelQueen of Kings. Thirty plus years after that tapestry incident, I have a ballgown closet full of weird things from almost any decade of the past hundred and twenty or so years. Marilyn Monroe’s favorite designer, Ceil Chapman. Edwardian tuxedo, and a ’70s shirt printed with strange scenes from Sherlock Holmes. Somewhere in there, I actually ended up with a pretty deep working knowledge of fashion history, and on top of that I carried on being a pretty okay, though not perfect seamstress. Now look, the clerk cringed. Whenever sidling past and whipping scarves from their hangers, one day I stole an entire scarf display, one by one.

Know what, I followed my mother from the store, cocky, when it was time to go.

Alas, the bulk of fifty stolen scarves overwhelmed my corduroys.

As anyone who steals knows, at some point, you turn into a berserk Gollum, for quite a while, I stole the scarves one at a time. Then the feather fan covers the dagger, and the sequined bustier could as easily be made out of discs of keenly polished metal. Therefore the locket around the neck may contain the hair of someone not quite human, and there it all should be, right there before you for the touching, the taking, the feeling. One can change one’s identity with a dress. Needless to say, the corset might contain bones covered in scrimshawed love letters.

All of them tell stories, and that, I believe, was my goal from first pace. Fancy, definitely, does really similar thing. Accordingly the tapestry did not look really the way it was meant to look. Things occurred. Now pay attention please. Snack was chocolate pudding. Eventually, it looked like a piece of befouled pink nightie embroidered with a twisted pea greenish snarl. Make sure you write some comments about it. In this ongoing series, we ask SF/F authors to describe a specialty in their lives that has nothing to do with writing. Furthermore, it didn’t matter. Another question isSo the question is this. Was the thread pea dark green instead of gold? That had been an error. Considering the above said. It my be full of light and glitter. Now I was a tapestry maker, famous in a few kingdoms. So, exploding stars.

My own next project is to embroider the ceiling of Grand Central Station on the skirt of an azure silk ballgown.

You can hide a tail with a hoopskirt.

One I got a small used sewing machine and a set of books from the ’70s. In them were long articles on everything from how to smock a baby dress to how to make a leather butcher’s apron AND tan the hide you wanted to make it from.

She was merciful. While snagging bits of the universe with my needle, the machine compensated for my lack of fine motor skills, and made it possible for me to stitch long and ferocious seams. So girl who makes her own prom dresses in an attempt to recreate haute couture runways? Those are my leiderhosen with a 1930s showgirl bandeau and a pair of ’50s crocodile $ 2 stilettos, who’s asking? Known yeah, By the way I was wearing that Victorian mourning costume found in a feed store attic. I made fancy. One who repeatedly gets busted for skirts made from tinfoil. That’s right! Salvation Army in three states, and emerged with things which, though not ballgowns, had the potential to be ballgowns. Often the gowns I made were simply stitched onto her, and in the morning she’d wake up, crumpled, a princess in a dress made from shredded 1980s jacket sleeves, a ’60s psychedelic towel, and two violet triangles panne velvet left over from a bikini my mom made in the ’70s.

Salvation Army Hawaiian muumuus melded to ‘rickrack’, coat hanger boned bustles.

Back up to say as a sidebar that my most beloved child household possession was a German picture book calledThe Rainbow Goblins, by Ul de Rico.

It was bought by my painter mother at some point in the late ’70s, and Undoubtedly it’s illustrated with gorgeous oil paintings on oak panels. Never mind that I had no sewing skills. Now please pay attention. Big Bang. Usually, maybe it should have mood lighting, and possibly, a dance sequence. Perhaps also feathered and painted. Embroidered, beaded and glittered, it will be the Big Bang. It was to be a tapestry which depicted a star exploding, and from this star’s explosion would come a whole lot of little people in complex costumes, together with a rainbow and some witches. Basically, it’s a powerful thing. Governor’s Island a couple days ago, a fancy dress Jazz Age Lawn Party, and I realized that my current haircut could go either to the male range of the ’20s -basically it’s a Peaky Blinder’s ‘side shaved’ mohawk, or to a certain corner of flapper girl glam. Cillian Murphy on a first date is a little much but still, I’ve got the full Peaky in my closet too.

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