This week I went shopping with Carmen to try and help her find a dress for a fancy doodad she is going to this weekend near Montreal at the Château Vaudreuil where her husband will be picking up an award.
Well, good luck finding something elegant and chic in a small town that doesn't look like you're going to your high-school prom or that you want to look like the grandmother of the bride. It was either too masculine... for my tastes anyways.. stuff like stark shifts with very tailored looking jackets, made me feel like something you would wear to a high-class business meeting, not a fancy soirée. There were also the trashy looking dresses... extremely low cut with long chains and beads and bobbles and whatever all over.. almost made you look like a xmas tree... not "quite" what we were trying to find.
We found one dress that would have been perfect except it didn't fit her. She is petite and wears an 8, but she is less than well endowed so her chest is probably a 6. We did find a black crepe dress with just the tiniest bit of dark plum inlay with tiny beads.. well.. alhtough she's small.. that dress would just not fit over her hips.. well, maybe if we would have attached vice-grips and tugged it down.. haha.
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Last night we had a practice. We really have to get a move on .. need to know all of this by heart. I'm pretty much there.. actually I would know it by heart if I would practice at home, I guess.. but I do other things instead. It will be a joy to get rid of the binder though, 350 pages starts getting heavy after awhile.
This evening we will be singing a few extracts to open the "Salon du Livre", which is a weekend of meeting (mostly regional) authors. We have to be there early and it was decided that they wanted us to wear black and white.. may I say.. boring!!
They think it will make us look unified as a group... oh.. no!. .. do you really believe that if people see us in ordinary clothing singing together.. will truly believe we just randomly and coincidentally all butted up against each other and burst out in song? LOL.
Also, it's a lovely day today.. beautiful sunshine and warm. We will be all dressed up in long formal black skirts and white silk shirts...so stuffy. It's also so darned conservative looking. Dressed like that, I feel we look like nuns, when they went through the stage of no longer wearing their habits, just need to add a small cross on our chests and there you go! Can you tell, I'm slightly annoyed?
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