and, I think, comes out the winner. The woman may be batshit insane, but she does look both fabulous and happy. This is what Edgar Alan Poe wanted to grow up to marry or become, I think.
Wrenched from the delicate grasp of the Manolo, who got it from Gala. At some point, Perez Hilton was involved, and that always ups the drama factor.
“This is the best thing to wear for the day, you understand, because I don’t like women in skirts, & the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt I think, then you have the pants under the skirt, & then you pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt, & you can always take off the skirt & use it as a cape, so I think this is the best costume for the day. …I have to think these things up, you know? …Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono so we had quite a fight.” — Little Edie











“& you can always take off the skirt & use it as a cape”
Wait, you are supposed to be wearing pants when you switch your skirt off to make a cape?
Of course! You don’t do it that way?
Oops.
Well, it’s a lot warmer where you live. Up here you’d get frostbite on your ladyblossom if you went commando.
makes me feel almost relieved that I’m a leather corset-wearing warrior princess.
Almost.
Wait. Pants means panties?
No idea. I just can’t see either of the Edies wearing panties. Bloomers, perhaps, handed down from one of their ancestors, but certainly nothing in a Brazillian cut. I think they’d go commando: did you see their house?
Also: I note we have the same decorator.