I am reading Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn, which is about a family where the children were purposely bred, by their parents, to be "circus freaks" to work in the family's traveling circus. And it's amazing. Here is my inspiration quote:
"Please, Papa," I begged, "tell us the Rose Garden."
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"It was in Oregon, up in Portland, which they call the Rose City, though I never got in gear to do anything about it until a year or so later when we we were stuck in Fort Lauderdale."
He had been restless one day, troubled by business boondoggles. He drove up into a park on a hillside and got out for a walk. "You could see for miles from up there. And there was a big rose garden with arbors and trellises and fountains. The paths were brick and wound in and out." He sat on a step leading from one terrace to another and stared listlessly at the experimental roses. "It was a test garden, and the colors were... designed. Striped and layered. Once color inside the petal and another color outside."
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The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. "It just struck me - clear and complete all at once - no long figuring about it." He realized that children could be designed. "And I thought to myself, now that would be a rose garden worthy of a man's interest."
And here is my outfit, inspired by that quote:
I thought the blue and purple roses on my dress, with their jade stems, were a good representation of what designer roses might look like:
And, not for nothing, but I also have jade stems today:
In addition to my dress (vintage, thrifted) and my jade tights (Target), I also wore a vintage wool blazer (thrifted), black ankle boots (BC Footwear) and an animal print belt (thrifted). The belt is there because I can't resist the combination of animal and floral and because the traveling circus has big cats as well as home-grown "freaks."
As I mentioned, I'm linking up with My Closet Catalogue for T3, but also to Visible Monday at Not Dead Yet Style. Thank you to M and Patti for hosting!
Happy Monday, All!
Gracey
