Replicas are sold on Cosplay and I do hope the
designer gets a percentage. I remember the back slit tops that my aunt
first invented in Rangoon and I popularized and then now everyone one
wears "one set" too (matching top and longyi) and no one even knows it
was I/we.
So now I never wear "one set" any more, wear pants. Like Daenarys I might need to flee.
At Penn police told us to wear shoes and clothes we could run in.
Thought it was one MIchele, but no, two.
Hard to imagine all the work required for 2?
costumes each per character, in Season 8 only one designer for Danny's
clothes, esp the to die for (fake) white coat.
Lady Catlyln Stark's dress is fine but a bit frumpy,
as if she has no time to have new clothes made, and could not care
less, and later she's a ghost come back from dead, so would hardly have
new clothes.
And last, I particularly like this comparison of Alexander McQueen styles and GoT's costumes.
I
always thought McQ "should not be making clothes" but costumes and fine
art, and now I know his background, I'm sure I am right, if only he had
lived.
I
also decided I am not a fool for collecting interesting things like
feathers, stones, bits of bark, blue green mussel shells and bones, wh
unfortunately I threw away--but I shld have made something.
Still thinking shld I throw away or keep yards of black about 6 " wide wh form a htet sint or top part of my old longyis (sarongs) wh have almost all been upcycled into vests and kimonos.
Bc there's a whole "keep the women subservient" part of Burmese culture that I dislike.
As in having to dry longyis in discreet places in shade, so of course they would smell funny.
Separate irons, washed separately. This was a constant source of dissension between me and the x.
I once went to an art gallery where the (women's) longyis were hanging on a the front balcony rails (in Chiangmai).
I
thought they were on display to sell, but the gallery owner said it was
her laundry, not an art display. She was married to a Burmese man.
So there you are.
I've
decided to keep the black cloth pieces, they each have a bit of color
from the longyi itself when I cut them off, and would make a good wall
hanging, like Elsworth Kelly.
And to be perverse, I will hang it right at the head of my own bed, why not? I can use it for anything.
Now I use threadbare cotton longyis to cover floor when I am painting.
kmk
4-2-2019
