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yes, deadpan might not be the best phrase, gallows humor, better.

daylight in black rooms, something unexpected happens, a brightness, as i think we see in these photos? (or in photos of day lit people in them).

they look unhappy (all the fuss + still can't turn their frowns upside down).

jo4936, you are fiercely mistaken.

Samurai exhibit, Asian Art Museum, Civic Center, last three days--some exquisite colorations (in particular a spectacular Noh theater robe, of checkered triangles and phoenixes, multi-hued, worth half the price of admission). If you like indigo and muted eggplant or mauve, some of the warrior outfits are striking. And of course each floor is packed with color inspiration....

my apologies for this obnoxious outburst (juvenille, from overwrought frustration...sheesh; i might have just said, "can't more of you see the beauty?" in all of her work?)

Wearstler piques the imagination...
the article rounds out the picture of her and if you are a fan, galvanizes a profound appreciation.

THANK HEAVENS FOR ALMIGHTY KELLY WEARSTLER
and her rich new styles, still brimming with a playful loveliness.

By the way, waitressed her way thru college, centerfolded in vintage blue and green lingerie, it said...she is kind of numinous, i think, or a "...halfling..." or just too fabulous, enchanting.

Thank you Lauren Collins for a fine article.

what about two different plaids in the same room?
or funkier plaids?
i love a red and yellow plaid, or a teal and purple plaid.
(yes, i am tacky;
i want a mobile home done sparsley, but in several different plaids, but a pucci themed mobile home would win out).

maybe i feel favorable toward plaid after reading about a teacher who said that to him (they'd asked random people), the height of style he'd witnessed in his life was his male students in Africa, they'd sport plaid suits, mixed different plaids, jackets and pants, and sometimes they'd trade, swap out different pieces...so great and unexpected!
also
a couple years ago there was a photo in the New Yorker of an immigrant mother in America (from Somali, i think), striding along in a billowing head to toe red and yellow caftan, stunning and regal.

funky largely seems out of favor though.
i like how plaid can be both a bit wacky but is also square, manly, kind of comforting, but stimulating.

Xanadu, Free to Be You and Me,Wham!, John Travolta in "Staying Alive", Gypsy (the musical) stuff,Seventeen magazine fashions, but mostly E.T. (adolescence was better with Cyndi Lauper, Grace Jones, Siouxsie the Banshees pics...file under no need to come out gay/state the obvious).