I loved it this weekend when Tall Matt commented to a very drunk man that he (Matt) was a hippy (in his tie-dye) and I was, however, an anti-hippy. The drunk guy was all, "what?", peering at us cross-eyed. "Yes", Matt continued; "I put color into my clothes, and he took it out!".
At Flipside, brightness and color abound, and there are many wild and lovely costumes created by the many talented people who came there. In this throng of vivid display, I expected my black shorts and black bleached T-Shirts to pass through essentially unnoticed. Instead, I did in fact receive a few very nice compliments on them!
Here they are, in their final form (except for the Red Eye shirt; the bleached areas just seemed sad and lonely on that one, so I went over them with the metalic red ink stick after this picture was taken):
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