Well, well. This won’t be a long post. I’m off to a costume party tonight, for which the theme is ‘School’s Out’. And seeing as every other Young Lady my age is bound to rock up wearing an old school uniform with about twenty inches or so taken off the hem, I’ve decided to go as…an olde time school marm.
For this costume, I’m going to wear the following:
- A pair of oversized, black square glasses frames…with no lenses. They are hysterical. I have also used them to dress up as Elvis Costello.
- An awesome pair of 60s (i think) Footrest old laydee heels that I picked up at Footscray Savers. They’re patent. They’re round toed. They have little teardrop shapes cut out of them. Hooray.
-Some stockings with bows on them that I bought in Paris. Oh, come on, I have to vamp it up a bit…who was it that said ‘women only come as one thing to a costume party…a vamp’? It’s mostly true, except once I went as a prophet of doom wearing a sandwich board that read ‘The End of the World is Nigh’. Not too much sex appeal there.
- A high-waisted, purple tweed skirt.
- A cream coloured pussy bow blouse.
- Bouffant hair in a chingon…or possibly a french roll. I am so going to wheel out the Cedel hairspray.
And the piece de resistance…an olde timey wooden ruler!
And, of course, lashings of face powder, liquid eyeliner and matte lipstick. It’s going to be rad. I’ll show those 80s P.E. jocks and Jai’me schoolgirls a thing or two…photos to come, hopefully. Word.
January 4, 2009 at 11:06 am |
School’s Out ?
written by Rockin Reggie Vincent and recorded by The Ramones?
and/or possibly Alice Cooper
I hope there was some black leather.
or maybe a group in Xavier uniforms trashing the carpark.
hope you had fun.