On Jan 11, 2005, at 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
how would a woman dressed in
entirely in black, including harem pants, whose feet were bright red be received
in an HMO.
Since Devon's dared to be publicly elitist (people at HMO, vs people at the Met), I'll dare to be publicly racist... :)
Mostly, I get comments on the lace I wear (*other than* "lace-occasions", when we're all cooking in the same stew-pot, and able to appreciate other people's lace) are from acquaintances who know I'm involved in "some weird craft", and who feel obligated to acknowledge the fact. The exchange, almost invariably, follows the same script:
Acq: Did you make this? Me: Yes (simper). Acq: How lovely; I'll have to come by sometime and see how it's done. Me: Any time; I'm almost always home.
They never follow up, of course; the exchange is a part of "Southern manners".
The only truly spontaneous "oooh, I love this, where did you get it??? You made it??? No kiddin'!!!" I ever get, is from young (18-30) black women (and once from a young black man <g>). The millieu doesn't seem to make any difference - a grocery store, a bookstore, a liquor store and a drugstore here in town, and a bus stop in San Francisco - but the skin-tone of the commentator has never been pale-pink... :)
Oh... And the (really admired) pieces in question have always been the two wire ones I made from Lenka's kits/class...
-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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