The picture was snapped at some event in 2004. I'm thinking the Opera Ball but I'm not absolutely sure.I just consulted my calendar and realized that in the next six weeks or so we will go to four black tie events. Two are this week.
FFP was looking at his tuxedo shirts a night or two ago. He really has just one tuxedo he likes to wear. He has several shirts, a bunch of ties, cummerbands, studs, suspenders, etc.
I have a variety of things with beads, sparkles and black. Flat tuxedo-pump style shoes. I haven't gotten anything new in ages. Five or six years probably. I have a tuxedo, too. Tuxedos on women were a look that came around (and probably went somewhere and will come again). I will doubtless see some of the same people at all four of these events. So I better figure out how to make four outfits out of my disparate pants, skirts and tops. Or I could just not worry that people care what I wear.
Black tie. It's a funny description, isn't it? Well, of course it refers to the man's (once black) bow tie. Distinguished from the man's white tie. I've never been at something described as white tie. And I'd have no idea what women might wear to such an event. Of course, this being Austin, dress 'suggestions' are not always taken to heart. You always see someone flaunting the prescription or pushing the edges.
It seems that when raising money for charity, getting people all dressed up raises more money. All of these events involve charities somehow.
And it's just clothes, after all. So I'll make up four outfits. Digging in the depths of my closet.
2 comments:
Funny, but I go to so many theatrical performances now that the whole idea of "getting dressed up" just doesn't do a thing for me any more. I am just as comfortable in sweats and a decent looking top than something sparkly.
I'd live my life in sweats and tennis shoes or jeans and hiking boots if it were possible. Sometimes my personal preferred dress code collides with my desire to eat fancy food or dance, but still.
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