Lisa sent me this gorgeous, somewhat obscene gown (click on the photo to go to the eBay listing). Notice, please, that the style is of small lit cigarettes! Why is it that the iconography of things that are poor for you, like smoking as well as alcohol, is so alluring? When I was in London I saw a lady in a lovely 40s peplum gown that likewise had a cigarette pattern; I asked her if it were vintage although of program it was obvious. Not that I don’t believe that a contemporary rockabilly gown with a pattern of bit lit cigarettes wouldn’t offer out in the time it took the web page to reload …
But I wasn’t going to publish about bit lit cigarettes today, I was going to tell you about some funny gown superstitions I discovered while looking up something totally different … here’s a few of my favorites, so far:
If you tear your gown under the arm there will soon be a wedding.
If your gown is torn by a bramble, somebody envies you.
If a stick catches in your gown while you are walking, you will satisfy a new beau.
If mud splashes on your white dress, somebody is speaking sick of you.
It is poor luck to let anyone wear your new gown before you do. (How convenient!)
Never mend your gown while you’re using it; you will ended up being poor, or people will speak maliciously about you.
It is thought about lucky to tear a new gown before it is washed. (By whom?)
If you wear a new gown for the very first time as well as it rains, it will rain every time you put it on.
Anyone have other ones?
Also — I may not have Web gain access to up until Monday (I know! The withdrawal will kill me!) so publishing frequency may be somewhat less than when per day. however I did add the link to trick Lives #7 over there on the right …
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