My costuming is spawning
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breakinglight11I like letting people borrow my costuming. It helps justify my owning it; it gets more use, and I can help out people who need the stuff and do not wish to live in the clothes-storage-hell of my own making that I do.
Recently I agreed to lend out two of my cutaway tailcoats, so I had to dig them out of the overstuffed closet in which they live. Now, as I have previously established, I own a LOT of men's formalwear. A ridiculous amount for a single largely femme-dressing woman. Dozens of pairs of tuxedo pants, vests, and wing collared shirts, as well as a variety of jackets. Said formal cutaways for eveningwear. Black frock coats, gray morning coats, even a few standard modern tuxedos that I don't even know why I bother keeping, when I mostly only need stuff that looks period. Even a set of white tails and a white Nehru jacket, which was repurposed for a particular costume in Mrs. Frost.
I had to dig through these to find the coats I wanted. Most of these were bought with very specific purposes in mind, mostly Hawking costumes for particular actors, or snagged when I saw them in thrift stores because they don't often turn up there. But I realized when I was conducting this search the other day that I also have...
...a black morning coat.
I never bought a black morning coat. Only gray. Morning coats are actually kind of hard to find, especially at my price point, given how infrequently Americans ever have cause to wear them. I'm actually kind of pleased, as it's useful for me to have it. But I checked with Jenn, it's neither of the black morning coats SHE owns. Nobody else has ever lent me one. So where the hell did I get it? Thrifted? They're NEVER in thrift stores. Grabbed something off of eBay that was accidentally daywear rather than eveningwear? How did I never notice this before? How do you get to a point in your life where you own so much men's formalwear you don't even notice when you pick up a relatively obscure style by accident?
There is only one answer. THEY'RE REPRODUCING. As if I didn't have enough costuming, now it's making more of itself. Black must be the recessive gene, to have emerged as the child of two gray ones. Soon I will be as Australia, overrun by invasive species, only rather than rabbits for me it's men's formalwear.
Recently I agreed to lend out two of my cutaway tailcoats, so I had to dig them out of the overstuffed closet in which they live. Now, as I have previously established, I own a LOT of men's formalwear. A ridiculous amount for a single largely femme-dressing woman. Dozens of pairs of tuxedo pants, vests, and wing collared shirts, as well as a variety of jackets. Said formal cutaways for eveningwear. Black frock coats, gray morning coats, even a few standard modern tuxedos that I don't even know why I bother keeping, when I mostly only need stuff that looks period. Even a set of white tails and a white Nehru jacket, which was repurposed for a particular costume in Mrs. Frost.
I had to dig through these to find the coats I wanted. Most of these were bought with very specific purposes in mind, mostly Hawking costumes for particular actors, or snagged when I saw them in thrift stores because they don't often turn up there. But I realized when I was conducting this search the other day that I also have...
...a black morning coat.
I never bought a black morning coat. Only gray. Morning coats are actually kind of hard to find, especially at my price point, given how infrequently Americans ever have cause to wear them. I'm actually kind of pleased, as it's useful for me to have it. But I checked with Jenn, it's neither of the black morning coats SHE owns. Nobody else has ever lent me one. So where the hell did I get it? Thrifted? They're NEVER in thrift stores. Grabbed something off of eBay that was accidentally daywear rather than eveningwear? How did I never notice this before? How do you get to a point in your life where you own so much men's formalwear you don't even notice when you pick up a relatively obscure style by accident?
There is only one answer. THEY'RE REPRODUCING. As if I didn't have enough costuming, now it's making more of itself. Black must be the recessive gene, to have emerged as the child of two gray ones. Soon I will be as Australia, overrun by invasive species, only rather than rabbits for me it's men's formalwear.
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