MeMadeMay 2020 Day 4

“MeMadeMay (2020), Day 4: You’ll recognize the return of last season’s classic A Very Hamilton Christmas Dress, this time with matching mask made from the scraps. Fabric is cotton sateen from Mood.”

A Very Hamilton Christmas Dress is Simplicity 4673. It is only now occurring to me that a lot of my clothes have names. If you were to ask me straight out, I’d probably have said that only SPACEDRESS has a name, but clearly that isn’t the case because AVHCD obviously has one, and in Friday’s post, Accidentally Laura Petrie also has a name. There… are probably others as well, but since I’m not immediately confronted with them, I can’t really think of what they would be. (Oh. The Rainbow Tank and the Road Case Tee. Those have names. But you’re not gonna see them in my MMMay grid for a looooooong time.)

Also holy flashback to the days when we had to make our own masks. I remember at the time, I had a friend (“friend”) with whom my relationship had mostly already run its course. Long story short, he was a photographer I would work with when I was still doing burlesque, and we became friends, but after a while, I started to feel a little… exploited? Like, not in an unsafe way, just in an “I am putting more effort into this than what I’m getting out of it” kind of way. …Anyway, said friend had another model that worked with him who was also in the medical field, and this was at the time when PPE was hard to come by, even for them. And so he basically railroaded me into making a bunch of masks for this person I’d never met, which would have been fine except that he had taken the liberty of getting all the supplies for them and… it was basically useless. They would have been almost impossible to actually breathe through (like, there was a layer of plastic in there somewhere. Completely impermeable.) But there was nothing for me to replace it with, and I really sort of felt like I had to do something, so I ended up doing it, and then I think I literally never spoke to him again.

Apropos of nothing, I probably still have my pretty, pretty floral mask around here somewhere, in case we need to go, like, protest or something. I’m sure the facial recognition software would *love* this.