March 29, 2005

• YSF!
• the blog has better formatting and the same focus on opera gloves.
• You need these to go with them.
• I didn't know that opera gloves could be peeled back just down to the wrists (like Gina Lollobrigida's are in the blog pic). That makes them look sort of like armwarmers, which of course, just like knee-highs, have their own fanlisting.
• i have a lavender pair and a black pair... the fingers are cut off to make them all punk, though...
• Touch not the cat but a glove. Especially that cat with ringworm.
• I thought we weren't doing front page porn.
• GramMa! that's a cool phrase, which led me to this page about family crest mottos, which led me to this motto for beeswacky: Ut apes, geometriam. (As bees, geometry.) huh?
• I wonder if they make opera gloves big enough to fit the fins on my dolphin cosplay outfit....
• LIGHTNING BOLT LIGHTNING BOLT LIGHTNING BOLT!!!!!
• Sidedish: Just to make the whole bee thing even more confusing....
• where IS beeswacky anyway? hasn't buzzed away again i hope
• I wonder if they'll make a pair for the man with the penis on his arm...
• Touvh not the cat bot a glove is Clan Chattan. I think it's a wild cat that's meant. The cells in a hive where honey us stored are six-sided, and hexagons are not so hard to draw if the medieval folk wanted to, so I suppose there's a kind of association there, SideDish, though I'm guessing here. Hats and shorter gloves used to be part of every ladies' wardrobe for daily use, not just in winter. But all that, of course, changed considerably in the decades following the second world war, and especially in the US, where folk were less conservative in changing social habits.
• There are plenty of cosplayers who are the bony, horse-faced type of pathetic nerd, Debaser. No need to stereotype. ...end contractually obligated disclaimer.
• Hats and shorter gloves used to be part of every ladies' wardrobe for daily use, not just in winter. but what about for bees?
• teeeensy weeeeensy opera gloves for bees
• Little silk stinger covers. A gentlebee never goes bare.
• When I was growing up, I got a new dress for Easter with a matching hat, purse, gloves and shoes. I felt so glamorous! (Looking back, it's hard to imagine feeling glamorous in white patent leather shoes, but I guess glamour is age-specific.) All the grownup ladies at church looked so pretty. It was the best little girl day of the year. (This was in the 80s, yet! The South likes a lady in a hat.)
• Worker bees wear gloves in order to avoid having teensy weensy calloused hands. The queen never wears gloves, nor do drones.[And this paragraoph at least is truth.] I wear work gloves on some occaisions -- usually to do with cutting and stacking wood -- and I also prefer to ride wearing gloves, because its awkward having to handle animals in a horseshow if you don't do it habitually, I find. How gratifying to be regarded as a gentlebee! -- but drones can be said to be sweet-tempered by contrast to the worker bees, since honeybee drones lack stings. So I only sting in the most figuarative sense. But this is no great distinction among monkeys.
• My husband likes to brag that he can guess a woman's age just by looking at her hands. I wonder if women's formal gloves served as a pre-botox era age concealer?
• I've heard people say that they can tell what kind of work people do by their hands. (I can't, for the most part.) Opera gloves as a social class leveler? Sounds unlikely.
• 1920s = classy 2000s = teh gay Next you'll be wanting one of these.