Busy weekend

[msmemory_archive]

Friday - visitation at Contentment chapter in Dedham.

Saturday - shoppingses. Help me fight temptation re: whether I "need" this dress from Nordstrom Rack. It's changeable pink and grey silk, it's more than 50% off, it's a sz 12!





Saturday night - dinner at Gargoyles with learnedax and cat9, then onward to the Steeleye Span concert. (OMG The first time I saw them perform was in 1986 at Nightstage.) Ran into many people we knew from many contexts - the McANultys, the Traites, Marsy's mom, a colleague of jducoeur's uncle Bob. We stayed and got Maddy and Peter to autograph the booklet of the new CD.

Sunday - apple picking on an utterly perfect autumn day. What a fabulous tradition!!

Late afternoon - while judcoeur got the new mailbox installed, I hauled the old dead freezer out to the curb for the city appliance recycling pickup.

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Just to be clear, we're supposed to be talking you out of the fabulous dress?

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I think so.
While it's more than 50% off due to some shop wear, I could probably still buy two other things for the same price. (I don't buy Designer stuff; I am not a label slave.)

Right now I'm putting it through the "if I still am thinking about it in a couple days, and it's still there when I go back to the shop, then it's fate" test.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

It's probably still expensive.

If memory serves, it's not a color you could wear for Eastern Star right now.

Weather's getting colder and the sleeves (or lack thereof) are cut for warmer weather. The styling of the neckline would likely be hidden by and/or look awkward with a wrap.

But if it's still there when you go back, you can reconsider. :)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I can wear any color I please for Eastern Star, though there are certain nights when it's considered a compliment to the guest of honor to wear a specific color, or an initiation night which requires white.

Sexy isn't good for Star though.

Thanks for the ammo for helping me convince myself I don't need this one. We'll see if I even go back to check on it.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I find the ruffle over one boob to be weirdly distracting. It looks like it's eating her breast.

[damascene.livejournal.com]

If it's still there, when you try it on again take a good hard look at the hipline. The photo model is standing like a sulky child -- does that line flatter your (better) posture?

[kellan_the_tabby]

I'm no help, I think it's pretty.

That said? Check the construction. It'll probably make you cranky enough to not buy it.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Well. Shows how much I've been keeping up. Last I heard, Maddy had left the band, which was what Gay Woods' return was all about. (BTW, the lineup with Maddy and Gay, plus the amazing Liam Gennocky on drums, was their best ever IMO.)

Concert and CD reviews, pleeeze. What's the current lineup?

Steeleye

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Concert was very good. Not the "best I've ever heard them do", which would've been London, 1995, but you'll get no complaints here. The set list included: Tam Lin, Seagull, Betsy Bell & Mary Gray, I Live Not Where I Love, They Called Her Babylon, The Story of the Scullion King, Thomas the Rhymer, others. (The NY City crowd who saw them last night may fill in the blanks of my memory.) Encores were Hard Times in Old England, and All Around My Hat.

This was the kickoff for the US tour, so they may modify that set list going forward.

The current lineup is Maddy, Peter Knight, and Liam, plus Pete Zorn on bass and Ken Nicol on guitar.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful.

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely fabric but I really don't like the ruffle detail on the bodice. It fights with the natural line of the bust instead of enhancing it. It's even managing to make that very shapely model look a bit short-waisted and over-endowed, which I seriously doubt is the case.