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                                             November  15, 2004
                                             September 29, 2013
I don't have copies of every one of my
alt.gothic "fashion reporter" series...
there was a trip to the ACT theater to                   FASHION_REPORTER
see the Burroughs/Waits play, "The Dark 
Rider", and no doubt some others.

My farewell review:

I was out at Mitchell's Ice Cream in San Francisco (in
a neighborhood variously claimed by The Mission, Bernal
Heights, and Noe Valley), when I was surprised by a
woman who was something of an asian fashion model type.
She flounced in very rapidly-- do we suspect a hint of
guilt about sneaking an ice cream cone?  

She wore some sort of maxi skirt in green with a
pattern of black figures on it, and it had been slit
up one seam all the way to the waist.  The ripped open    Jennie Kermode
seam was left with threads dangling: an intentionally     commented that
crude touch.                                              sounded like a
                                                          element from
The top she wore was a little hard to describe:           Korean high
it was an odd mass of multiple clashing colors            fashion.
in layers of fabric: imagine translucent
taffeta rolled into rough tubes, and then tied
around the body.

But I hadn't made a note of what exactly
the pattern was on the skirt: black figures 
on green, but what figures?

Something like a chess bishop, or the clubs
card suit, or perhaps a clover shape?


   This illustrates my great failing as a fashion
   reporter:  I can't focus on the details when a
   woman is flashing a leg bare to the hip.




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