Atominent request; Men's fashions are dead, so ladies should wear mourning, men should wear women's clothes. Ladies who grin a lot should wear Corinthian helmets with palominotail crests. Fringes & tassels wherever they can be attached; avoid toques & pantsuits, wear cymbals instead, or a triangular cloth draped and knotted. And don't forget those armbands. Women should still resemble alpacas. If you wear glasses, a pair of jeweler's loupes like Dr. Bremmer will help desecrate this spring. Gentlemen should eat lots of nutmeg, & wear garments contrived of dozens of neckties knotted together, substituting ferns as summer encroaches; and enough perfume to burn, superficially above the skin. Imagine the streets aflame with the caconasal reek of it, & crash cymbals & swish cymbals, the swallows returning to Capri & drowning in the siren's grotto, getting beat up by Joan Crawford, blazing like an oiled Gaul trying to climb a castle but they dump the cauldron on him.

©1977 WALTER OLLER

Valid HTML 4.0 Transitional

RETURN TO:

Write: advopath@gmail.com
UPDATED: MAR 2007