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mark12_30 · 11-02-2002, 08:34 PM

Cloak History:

1. Calf-length green cotton cloak, made and worn in high school. Wore it every day. Took a TON of flack.

2. Brown wool calf-length cloak lined with tan fake fur. Way too heavy... choked me to wear it.

3. Fingertip-length navy-blue wool cloak. Comfy to wear but not very warm.

However, it was enough to motivate me to remove the fake-fur lining from the brown one and shorten that to fingertip length, too. I forget what happened to the green one, but it's gone. So now I have two fingertip-length, single-thickness wool cloaks, one blue, one brown. They're not very warm. I wear them over my hobbit-jackets when I am walking the dogs...

Oh, this was about Middle-earth clothes, right? Capri-length twill pants make a good approximation of hobbit-breeches; they're selling shirts that lace up at the neck these days, I grabbed a few; and The Dress Barn is selling corderoy jackets remarkably similar to Frodo's brown velvet jacket... I bought one green and one red (the dark-brown comes in the wrong size, DRAT DRAT DRAT.)

Since I wear Birkenstocks anyway, I'm normally almost-barefoot. (I think in our culture hobbits would wear Birkenstocks whenever they had to wear shoes in order to get past health regulations.)

Anyway, I go to work dressed like a hobbit fairly often. I haven't told anybody that; I just do it. Nobody's asked.

(Uh, I almost forgot about the shimmery grey elven dress I bought in an indian import shop this summer...)

11-02-2002, 08:34 PM	#10
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Cloak History: 1. Calf-length green cotton cloak, made and worn in high school. Wore it every day. Took a TON of flack. 2. Brown wool calf-length cloak lined with tan fake fur. Way too heavy... choked me to wear it. 3. Fingertip-length navy-blue wool cloak. Comfy to wear but not very warm. However, it was enough to motivate me to remove the fake-fur lining from the brown one and shorten that to fingertip length, too. I forget what happened to the green one, but it's gone. So now I have two fingertip-length, single-thickness wool cloaks, one blue, one brown. They're not very warm. I wear them over my hobbit-jackets when I am walking the dogs... Oh, this was about Middle-earth clothes, right? Capri-length twill pants make a good approximation of hobbit-breeches; they're selling shirts that lace up at the neck these days, I grabbed a few; and The Dress Barn is selling corderoy jackets remarkably similar to Frodo's brown velvet jacket... I bought one green and one red (the dark-brown comes in the wrong size, DRAT DRAT DRAT.) Since I wear Birkenstocks anyway, I'm normally almost-barefoot. (I think in our culture hobbits would wear Birkenstocks whenever they had to wear shoes in order to get past health regulations.) Anyway, I go to work dressed like a hobbit fairly often. I haven't told anybody that; I just do it. Nobody's asked. (Uh, I almost forgot about the shimmery grey elven dress I bought in an indian import shop this summer...) __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.