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Staying Dry This Spring – A Forecasting Conversation with Pat Dry

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#PATDRY partying in pantyhose recently in the penthouse.

STAYING DRY THIS SPRING

Billy Beyond (Me) – Good Morning Pat, what shapes do you see this Spring? What forms are “in?”

Pat Dry {Pat) – Pat is loving Commes humps for Merce Cunningham & a basket case coat.

Me – Quelle fresh. J’love. Pat, on the homefront what does Spring 17 look like in our living  areas?

Pat – The Eternal Silience of The Grave…but with more dust.

Me – Shhh! Pat, hemlines. What. Hemlines…

Pat – (no answer)

Me – Pat, what’s for dinner?

Pat – Asian stir-fry.

Me – Pat, there’s no denying that you’re known for your eyes, and to call you a visionary would be an understatement, but how are you with you hands? What are the textures we will be feeling this Spring?

Pat – Silky moisture – wicking tech chiffons and vinatge Herculon.

Me – I’m feeling that. Now where did I stash that herculon shell….Pat, how’s your nightvision? What’s up for our Spring “get down?” Any PM Predictions?

Pat – Real opium dens.

Me – …I’m sorry…I…uh, …I must have dozed off there for minute. I was having the most amazing dream about a flying donkey with the head of Melania…well, excuse me. I apologize. Pat, thank you so much for sharing your informed predictions with us. In closing, if you were to say to my readers, “One thing you all really need right now is…”  What. What do we all really need now, Pat?

Pat – Love.

Me – (heart emoji)

 

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Forgetting About Your Own Blog

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is no excuse for not posting for weeks and weeks but it happened. If you’d like to remind me to post something in the future or if you would like to request a topic or to ask me anything almost at all – hey – feel free…

auntalice AT gmail DOT com

Let your fingers do the walking and be assured – every email will be read by me or one of my staff. FYI – I like to discuss and blog about things that are; a little tired, really old, a future possibility, completely ridiculous, often underrated and of course those things that are invisible such as music, fragrance and spirits (not the kind that take a water back.) Also, I enjoy blogging about topics that involve the visible spectrum and everything that happens therein. I’m very sorry but I have to request that there be no inquiries regarding the subjects of the ultra-violet nor the infra-red at this time. Things beyond the spectrum will be permitted as topics of inquiry and or suggestions for posts sometime in the future, however at this moment I am unable to care about and therefore blog about colors that nobody can see.  note: The topic of fluorescence is fine.

Ok, so, that said, what about Horst P. Horst and his summer beauty shot for Vogue? Have you seen it yet? Are you familiar with Horst P. Horst and Vogue 1939? No? Well you are now…

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H. kept this one REAL simple – huh? Blast her with the brightest tungsten ya got and pay no mind to the beat up edge of that box. Inspiring.

Thanks, Horst.

A Stay At Home Model’s Rehearsal Assignment At The Intermediate Level

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Intermediate Level Assignment #7

This is your rehearsal track – Heaven 17 – Let Me Go 12″ Extended Mix – Learn it.

 

Assignment: Define through a series of half turns and paused poses, the
popular ’80s concept regarding “The Elegance of Ease.”
Tips: Express contentment and ultimate confidence with your most authentic half smile – no teeth.
Be luxury – as in a luxury ocean liner. Cruise. Keep an impossibly even keel. Float.
As you near the end of your imagined home runway, see how far to the side you can  turn your eyes without turning your head…to the degree of appearing freakish for a hot second. Pose, then smirk and leave.
Peeling is permitted at the intermediate level but always remember to scrub off ALL jackets or coats. The accomplished S.A.H.M. will take this moment to show the lining.

 

 

Keep practicing. Don’t give up. Spring is a great time to stop eating, by the way.

 

Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch Symposium 2015

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Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium
Marvin Feldman Center, Second Floor
The fifteenth annual fashion symposium, Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch,  will explore the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene.

Twenty speakers will discuss the impact and the influence that Susanne Bartsch has had on fashion and nightlife. Speakers include Simon Doonan (Creative Ambassador-at-Large of Barneys New York), Stephen Jones (milliner), and Peter McNeil (professor at University of Technology Sydney and at Stockholm University).

Admission to the symposium is free!

Checkout the Brochure

Oct 23rd – 2-5pm

Dr. Ann Ilan Alter, “Costumes, Cross-Dressing, and Masquerades at Parisian Carnival Balls: Transgressive, Reactionary, or Fashion as Usual?”
Joey Arias and Dr. Peter McNeil, in conversation”
Zaldy and Dr. Valerie Steele, in conversation
Waleed Khairzada and Jessica Grindstaff, in conversation
Jeffrey Hinton and Billy Beyond (Erb), in conversation, followed by a screening of the film 80’s Is a Blur, by Jeffrey Hinton

Bodymap 1985 – We’re Experiencing Ourselves

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”Men can wear skirts,” Mr. Holah commented. ”I sometimes walk around in a dress just to show the world that we don’t have to be what they say we must be. I like it when people have strong feelings about it.”

”Our clothes are really a form of questioning,” he said. ”The whole girl-boy thing in our clothes is about how I feel about girls and boys. When I was in school the boys and girls were not allowed to mix. And as a boy you weren’t allowed to have a girl as a friend. You were forced to have a girlfriend. Otherwise you weren’t normal. There’s always been a macho thing here. So we make clothes that show that the sexes can be mixed together even to the extent that we can borrow from each other. We’re experiencing ourselves.”