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

[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.)