Word: crepes
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...parents and I were eating dinner when the cheerleaders rang the doorbell. It was the night before Thanksgiving; the pair of cheerleaders carried posterboard, crepe paper and a three-foot-tall gold mylar balloon shaped like the number seven. When I showed them upstairs to my little brother’s room their platform sneakers thumped delicately, like rubber mallets wielded by diffident elves...
Generally we are not the sort of people who have our home crepe-papered by cheerleaders. However, late last summer my brother—despite having played only pick-up games of touch football, despite being built a lot like Stephen Crane, despite a congenital wussiness—decided to become the kicker for our high school’s varsity football team. As a senior gridder, he was assigned his very own cheerleader. Her name, according to the posters she scotch-taped to my brother’s mirror, is Shelli. According to age-old tradition, she was obliged...
...finished dinner to an intermittent clumping overhead. As soon as the cheerleaders left, my parents and I dashed upstairs to see their handiwork. Festoons of intertwined red, black and white crepe paper dangled from the ceiling; a football-shaped piñata nestled at the foot of my brother’s bed. A feather boa was twined around his pillows. The cheerleaders had scattered glittery confetti over his sheets; they had hung a red fringe from the door lintel. The poster taped to his mirror read, “#7 Can Kick That Ball 2 Heaven...Just...
...surrender the stage for the shoes. So he did. His first foray into fashion was a collaboration with the groovy British designer Ossie Clark in 1971. The shoes?with straps of green suede and fake cherries?were perfect. The heels?each six or seven inches of unsupported rubber crepe?were not. The models wearing them bounced and buckled down the runway at Clark's fashion show in the Royal Court. But never mind. The It-girls of the day?Bianca Jagger, Marisa Berenson?loved them despite the wobble. If the exhibition lacks anything, it's the stories like this...
...surrender the stage for the shoes. So he did. His first foray into fashion was a collaboration with the groovy British designer Ossie Clark in 1971. The shoes - with straps of green suede and fake cherries - were perfect. The heels - each six or seven inches of unsupported rubber crepe - were not. The models wearing them bounced and buckled down the runway at Clark's fashion show in the Royal Court. But never mind. The It-girls of the day - Bianca Jagger, Marisa Berenson - loved them despite the wobble. If the exhibition lacks anything, it's the stories like this...