On Oct 3, 2009, at 13:24, Aurelia Loveman wrote:
Dear Betty Ann -- Terrific! That's two jabots so far. If we can
manage to inspire seven more of us, we'll be good to go. It never
occurred to me in the long-ago past that I could ever influence nine
Supreme Court justices, but here we are! Is anybody listening?
Two is really all that's needed :)
Ever since Aurelia mentioned the project -- some years ago, when Sandra
Day O'Connor was still on the court (now, *she* was a lovely lady to
wear lace with grace) -- I've been observing our Super-Supremes' garb
and reading about them whenever I could. There was another photo in
Thursday's NYTimes (unfortunately, not in the online edition of the
article; I checked), of the entire gathering, including, for the first
time, Sonia Sotomayor.
Sotomayor is, obviously, a prime target for a nice lace gift (and I bet
the lacemakers in Puerto Rico are thinking about making her something
too). She seems to like lace and wears it with relish. Ginsburg is
another good target -- that crude crocheted collar she's been wearing
for years has been getting on my nerves. I was happy to see her wear,
for a change, a (makeshift, a la O'Connor) "jabot" in that photo on
Thursday; maybe Sotomayor lent her one of hers :)
The gentlemen... Stevens (likely to retire once this session --
starting on Monday -- is over, according to the rumours. So we'd need
to hustle) is a possibility, but not for a jabot; bow-ties are all he
ever wears and he has a big and varied collection (but none in lace, so
far as I saw). Roberts, Breyer, Kennedy and Alito always wear robes
with "deep necklines", showing off the very traditional ties; not very
suitable for a jabot. Thomas seems to have two robes -- sometimes, he
wears one close enough to the neck to support a jabot, sometimes one
with a "deep neckline" and visible tie. Scalia is the only one who,
consistently, wears a robe with a close to the face neckline (a bit
like a cardinal's robe, but black) and could wear a jabot with it. But,
even there, the tie is peeeking.
The Wikipedia entry has nice pictures of each of them (and, glory be!
Ginsburg is *not* wearing that tatty collar of hers <g>)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Current_membership
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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