Moved to Chat because my reply has nothing to do with showing off lace: > In fact, in New York, it is not > uncommon for people to dress entirely in black such that you > sometimes feel that you have stumbled into a mime convention.
When we were in Sydney, I often wondered what was Australian and what was new to me because I'm not accustomed to big cities and fancy hotels. But it never occurred to me that the all-black office workers were anything other than Australian -- it made so much sense in the climate -- where in New York, people might wear black when they aren't being severely formal. The same custom prevails -- or used to -- in Hawaii. At least another malihini once told me that a tailor had told her he couldn't make a suit from the fabric she had brought him because it wasn't black. Since I hung out in the Kula, I never saw anybody dressed formally while I was there. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there's no snow, but plenty of cold and wind. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
