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                                                  November 5, 2004

November 2nd, the Day of the Dead: A latino holiday
celebrated heavily in San Francisco's Mission district.
                                                               FASHION_REPORTER
Seeing the sights:

Skeletal outfits, skeletal make-up, some gothic overlap,
some halloween overlap.

A couple in standard demon and ghoul halloween costumes,
push a small black coffin baby buggy, complete with an actual
baby: a fashion accesory which makes the otherwise trite
concept work.

A troupe of dancers in Aztec-wear, shirtless with tall
feathered head dresses.

A skeletal stilt dancer with a woman on roller blades
in ghost wear and whiteface and a goth girl standing at
the side shaking a skull rattle in time.

In the park, glimpses of altars by candlelight.
Flowers, photos.  Readings.  A "Sister of Perpetual
Indulgence" attends (a drag queen nun in whiteface).

A tall woman in mid-length black dress, forties black beaded
pill-box hat, startling black-and-white horizontal striped
stockings and high-heels.

In front of the Mission Cultural center, an asian woman,
light colored fabric tied around her head a
long flowing skirt in orange with a pink aztec silk screen
print on it...

A couple in black, he in some sort of tuxedo, she in shiny
vinyl pants.  She says something in the squeaky voice of a
skinny whitegirl, he raises her hand and kisses it as they
stroll by.



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