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A Highland Fling

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Looking Very Scottish

With Declan’s visit, we did some, if not enough, babyproofing of the house. One of the areas that was worked on was the computer room. One concern there were all of photographs that we had “inherited” from Harry and Bubs. They were all sitting out on the floor. Just before Declan arrived, all of these heirlooms were stuffed into the closet, if only to keep them safely out of his reach. Fastforward to yesterday, when Anne took it upon herself to really cleanout this closet. It had been way too long. In addition to a whole lot of cub scout and other stuff of a similar vintage, Anne unearthed the pictured wardrobe. The skirt is made from fabric of the Farquharson clan, her ancestral tartan. She made the skirt herself, using fabric that she had bought while visiting Scotland right after high school. The skirt was made in the maxi style, which was the fashion at the time. The red top was my mother’s that Anne also inherited. They make for a striking combination. Now I have to think of someplace to take her, where she can wear this outfit.

A Shaggy-Goat Story

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A Shaggy-Goat Story from Afghanistan

A Shaggy-Goat Story from Afghanistan

The photograph for this post comes from “The 1968 Exhibit”, which in turn took it from the pages of Life Magazine. This picture leads a fashion article in the magazine’s July 26, 1968 issue. Entitled “A Shaggy-Goat Story from Afghanistan”, this article looks forward to that year’s coming fall fashion season, which promises to be “wild and woolly” and features beyond this shaggy-goat story, “exotic cowgirls and a lady in embroidered pig.” “The 1968 Exhibit” captured the look and feel of this year, not only in its boldest and broadest historical strokes, but also as in this example, the mundane trivia of everyday life. This photograph of six beautiful and exotic women lounging about almost harem style, evokes the time period, but also draws the viewer in. These shaggy-goat coats made quite the fashion splash, a splash that was echoed in the movies, both contemporary and in subsequent years. They must have been a boon to the Afghanis and makes you wonder how things could have turned out differently for that county and its people.

Garden Glow

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Blue Tree
Green Climatron
Shaw House
Street Light and Magnolia Buds
Tunnel of Lights

Thursday night, we, the entire RegenAxe clan, braved the cold and went to see the Garden Glow. The Garden Glow is the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Christmas lights display. This is a new event for the garden, which is normally content to celebrate the holiday season with a room full of model trains and poinsettias. This event has been going on for a while and actually ends this weekend. That and the cold made for a rather uncrowded tour last night. The photos shown here are selected from the exterior lights. Later I’ll do another post on the interior of Henry Shaw’s house. Shaw is the garden’s founder. His house was decorated for the season by various garden groups.

After the Glow, we decamped to Mangia, an Italian restaurant on South Grand. During most of dinner the boys held a running dialog about Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, two miniatures based war games that they like to play. This left Anne and I still out in the cold, relegated to making snarky comments about the relative merits of ultra-marines versus aquamarine and don’t get me started on cerulean blue. Eventually, we were able to wean them off topic and Dan started telling us about his work at Otis.

He told us about the job application process, which culminated in a panel interview that included the department head. Dan is in fashion now, although he seems to have fallen into this field much in the same way as the character Andy from “The Devil Wears Prada” did. This department head is no shark like the Miranda Priestly character, but she does seem to swim in the same waters as the likes of Anna Wintour, her Otis job interview panel included Edith Head. LA is about nothing if not about name dropping and here am I doing it too.

Dan’s best story is one he heard from one of his other co-workers, a former retired Marine. Visualize Chesty Puller to drop another name. The Marine was racing to get to work on time, when he notices next to him at the stoplight his boss, the department head. Not wanting to get to work after her, when the light turns green, he races ahead only to get plowed into by a DWI. His last memory before waking up in the hospital is of his boss bodily hauling his ass out of the car, getting his blood all over her Prada suit.