{"id":3106,"date":"2009-10-17T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/10\/17\/aw-my-costume-arrived-and-it-does-not-fit-not-even-a-little-bit\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T10:53:00","slug":"aw-my-costume-arrived-and-it-does-not-fit-not-even-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/10\/17\/aw-my-costume-arrived-and-it-does-not-fit-not-even-a-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"aw, my costume arrived and it does not fit, not even a little bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/3631902838\/\" title=\"Super Sexe by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3386\/3631902838_b4100d7056.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Super Sexe\" \/><br \/>\nSuper Sexe in Montreal<\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><b><a href=\"http:\/\/powazek.com\/posts\/2090\">Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;::&#8211;<\/center><br \/>\nI was finding over the weekend that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/socks_detail_ProductID_950.php\">my reflexology socks<\/a> have begun falling down. Not to the point of continual adjustment, but enough that I decided it&#8217;s time to invest in another quaint pair of sock garters, (my last ones having gone to the great fuzzy sock drawer in the sky several years ago). Foolishly, I decided my best course of action would be to hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\">SockDreams<\/a>, the most thorough stockings site on the planet. Did I get in and get out, immediately leaving with what I went in for? No, frankly, I did not. High caliber words like <i>angora, silk, lace, chenille,<\/i> and <i>shimmer<\/i>, small fantasies, such words, every one, dismantled my conviction and made me stay. <\/p>\n<p>Charcoal, dirty olive, raspberry and trembling dark plum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I barely escaped alive. <\/p>\n<p>Every category silently tore at me, promising comfort, confidence, femininity, warmth, cleverness, flirtatiousness or sex, laying out possibilities like tarot cards, a future with the top of my naked thigh slyly being touched under a table, a moment of enjoying someone watch me as I slowly roll them on, or perhaps only random conversation at some unknown bus-stop, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always liked teal.&#8221;, meeting, then, my future best friend. Tabs were being opened, spreading across the screen like bleeding, unrestricted stanzas of flashy curiosity equaling, I&#8217;m certain, a similarly outrageous price-tag. I had to take action. Judiciously picking my way through the impossible, I first discarded the duplicates and most banal, anything that could be bought later, that never goes out of stock, then shaving at the edges more carefully, manipulating facts, rationalizing bits and pieces away until I was left with only the most unique, red in tooth and talon, and <i>fun<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, however, I couldn&#8217;t manage to cut it down past a final batch of twelve. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1514.php\">Some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_991.php\">colourful<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1371.php\">tights<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_986.php\">upcoming<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1747.php\">winter<\/a>, a pair of expensive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1718.php\">breathy thigh highs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_409.php\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_459.php\">knee<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1686.php\">highs<\/a>, a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_524.php\">microfiber arm warmers<\/a>, a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1625.php\">slate gray socks printed with birds on a wire<\/a>, and a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdreams.com\/_shop\/pages\/product_detail_ProductID_1612.php\">criss-cross button fingerless gloves<\/a>. I think, though I&#8217;m not precisely sure, they should arrive at my home in Seattle tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>So, as it&#8217;s about to be a bit more imperative: Anywhere know an equally good place to get skirts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Sexe in Montreal Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again. &#8211;::&#8211; I was finding over the weekend that my reflexology socks have begun falling down. Not to the point of continual adjustment, but enough that I decided it&#8217;s time to invest in another quaint pair of sock garters, (my last ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/10\/17\/aw-my-costume-arrived-and-it-does-not-fit-not-even-a-little-bit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;aw, my costume arrived and it does not fit, not even a little bit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[439,482,1075],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halloween","tag-shopping","tag-stockings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}