Folsom

[pasithea]

prickvixen and I did throw-together costumes. Hers from stuff she had laying around and mine ran < $10 yet somehow we were the belles of the ball. We couldn't get more than about five feet without being asked for a photo. A major improvement over the last time I went to Folsom. I wasn't shiny then. I had long brown hair and my 'throw together' costume was to wear my motorcycle leathers. Oooh.. Gee. That's HOT... NOT.

Anyhow... Much thanks to Ashy for inspiring my costume. She said she was going to do something medical themed and due to the short planning period and work and stuff, I hadn't come up with anything good. Trips to the thrift stores had also proved unfruitful in inspiring me, so I decided to play off her doctor look and be a patient. (This seemed way better than my fallback idea which was a black vinyl mini-dress and platform boots)

I'm really glad I went ahead and followed that. Everyone wears black. It's so uninspired. Especially an off-the-rack dress and boots. Sure, that look is sexy but being patient was exotic. Far far better.

Now I just need to figure out a costume for Silicon next weekend and maybe decompression if I go.

Then I have to figure out a costume for the OddBall. Oy.

The downside of the Folsom street fair experience was that in my haste to be clever and pack only a minimalist purse, I forgot to pack my credit card so we had no money or food. On the positive side, I didn't spend any money that way. The other negative was definitely the traffic. Ugh. There was some bloody football game. We drove up in costume of course, so we got oogled by the sports fans. They acted like they'd never seen a woman wrapped in ace bandages before. Hmph!

Will have to hunt around on flickr in a few days and see if any photos of us spring up.

Comments

[sci.livejournal.com]

They acted like they'd never seen a woman wrapped in ace bandages before.

To be fair, neither have I, but I can garuntee it's not something I'll be forgetting anytime soon. Wowsers. :)

[voidheart.livejournal.com]

I have to agree ... forget "Hello Nurse", it is "Helllooooo Patient!" =P

We were far too fried to accompany Will up to Folsom Street Fair, having just finished the prior day running around and seeing Sweeney Todd. Traffic was bad then as well due to some sort of "Love" parade. Look on the bright side, atleast you didn't have two insanely loud yet idiotic ex-high school cheerleaders trying to be 'hip' right behind your seat the entire train ride home. Had to keep Raven from pecking them.

Will called us from the Fair, so we know he made it after he left here. Hopefully he saw you there ... you'd be hard to miss ;)

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would definitely say that it wasn't the monetary value of your costumes that impressed people, but the bravado it took to dress like that in public. I, like many a sports fan have never seen a woman dressed in ace bandages. The medical tape X on your forehead is classic.

Also, I can see up Ashy's nose in that picture :)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

There were lots of people at Folsom wearing nothing at all. But really that's less interesting than wearing very little. Leaves nothing to the imagination.

And as for the X, much like the knee brace, it was a functional bit of costume. I had a pimple and decided to turn it into a beauty mark. :)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh! That was the other thing I forgot to mention about how great this costume was. My knee was feeling like it was going to give me trouble on Saturday and I was fretting about how unattractive a knee brace would look and that it would ruin any sexy costume I could come up with.

Then I remembered a costume I'd designed last year to tease Ashy. I'd even gone so far as swiping a hospital gown to do it. (I was just going to show up at her door in it and hit her with unexpected roleplay) but the weekend I was going to do it, the weather was like 100F (meaning about 150F at Ashy's house) and that probably wasn't going to be sexy. After that I got busy doing other stuff and then I kind of lost my nerve.

But here! Concept sketch of the costume from last year. http://circle.twu.net/artwork/sketches/PlayingDoctor.jpg

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

It's such a cool costume idea it took a wile to realize that you're wearing the hospital gown backward :)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

That's the way you wear it for breast examinations. :P

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Oh! *examines your photographed breasts* it works! I've never worn one at all, let alone for a breast examination.

[azikale.livejournal.com]

Wow..they are amazing costumes. So brave!

I really wish there were events like that near me!

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Where I live I think the police would be there with tear gas and rubber bullets if people were walking around dressed like that, or walking around nude as DV_Girl said they were, while someone shrieks shrilly about the children, my god will someone think of the children?!

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

This, of course, is why we invented San Francisco. So there's a place where you can do that! (I mean the dressing up part, not the rubber bullet part.)

[gomezkitty.livejournal.com]

Vury nice, yupyup!