My kingdom for a skirt

[primsong]

My dear Starbells and I are dancing tomorrow in an autumn harvest show to promote the bellydance classes in the area, and as it was short notice they grabbed what they apparently thought would be an easy "theme" for everyone to match their outfits on - "Blue".

Guess what is the ONE color I have almost nothing in? >_< I have pink, peach, brown, green, white, copper, even tie-dye. No blue.

I've managed over this week to scrounge up a choli and hip-scarf in blue - begged a secondary color for mercy and "purple" was added as a back-up...check. I have purple gaucho pants...and a necklace. This leaves me with - still no skirt...! Arrrrgh!

Just spent an otherwise nice, sunny afternoon leaping from thrift store to thrift store - landed one purple skirt that might work in a pinch. No blue. Anywhere. Except ONE blue dance skirt that was so skinny and so long it might have been made for a life-size Barbie.

On a better note, Happy Birthday to Starbells! My Brit-lovin' girl gets what she asked for this evening, a dinner at a British restaurant even though we'll have to drive a bit to get to one. (love you, lady!)

Comments

[dbskyler]

What a pain! Does the whole outfit have to be blue or purple? What would they say to a white skirt with the blue / purple everything else?

At least the belly dancing part sounds like fun. Have a great time!

[primsong]

I'll be That Purple One in the group, I think - though at least the hip scarf I have will help, as it's a nice wide one that will make me 'blue' a fair bit down over the skirt and it has a lot of coins so it jingles nicely. Oh well! As long as I can manage to start off on the right foot and not go flying off the stage, I'll be good, right? ;-) It helps that they know we're amateurs too, so the expectations shouldn't be too high.

I'm already plotting to buy a blue skirt at this November's big show so I'm not caught blueless again - of course any excuse to get a new 'oooh! fluffy!' piece of dancewear is a good one.