COMMENTARY

le gatsby! Let us all pause to reflect on just how cute your resident seamstress can be in a damn good hat; let us NOT reflect, however, on whether 1920s dress silhouettes particularly suit her. Let us also reflect on cute husbands who attend their very first (gasp!) costume event, wearing knickers made by your resident seamstress.

Only two meltdown temper tantrums later, I made it to Gatsby! I coordinated the GBACG group picnic — who KNEW there was so much work involved? The main headache was trying to get info out of people, since it wasn’t like I could just make people buy tickets and have that be the end of it. After all the pre-stress, plus leaving my house at 9:30 am to make the early set up time, I drank a lot of cocktails and had a good time getting loud and obnoxious with other loud and obnoxious types.

I did an absolutely ABYSMAL job at photographing all the good costumes — most of my photos are of me and my group. There’s just so much going on and so many people that it’s impossible to really get everyone, plus my husband was in possession of the camera most of time. My favorite (undocumented) was two women in beautiful coordinating late 1920s outfits — one had a light green dress with rose hat and accents, the other had a rose dress with light green accents. Shoulda won the “couple” category in the costume contest, but we won’t go there.