#8

Boy, this is sure a favorite. Can you believe I forgot where I even got it? But it's perfect - two shades of red, shaped like a tulip or a shell opening up, with a big tie-able bow at the bust. Gorgeous. In this picture I'm on the couch with Ellie and Cory, two friends I made performing in Sweeney Todd.

But I first wore this dress on a warm July evening. Rajeev and I walked over to the old Campus Y, a building that was blessed with a newly renovated hardwood-floor performance space and high windows that let in the twilight. Our friend Garth Grimball had collected a dozen of his friends - some of them trained dancers, some of them former dancers, some of them complete neophytes - for a modern dance concert titled "The Honeysuckle Shorts Review." Our friends tumbled out in bright bodysuits, colored peacock and mustard and tangerine; one dancer performed an old-fashioned burlesque striptease; one collective piece was completely improvised every night. I was astonished at the natural, easy beauty and talent of all these friends of mine, who just decided to get together and put on a dance concert in midsummer, "experience" be damned.

Comments

[Julie]

this IS a fine easy gorgeous dress, wow. i love how you are doing this genre of women's clothes ... *the* most difficult one by far, imho! (but not for everyone, obviously ;-))