I bought a pair of wide-leg black pants ten years ago, during the Great Eileen Fisher EBay binge. I didn’t notice they were silk chiffon. They have been in my closet since, hanging in the corner, waiting for an Event.
Recently, I got pants liners. I am sure FancyPants’ gossamer heart skipped a beat when the liners took the hanger next to her.
And now, FancyPants, after being paired with an ivory lace duster and black shirt, has gone to the opening night of Marriage of Figaro. (How many other women also dressed in wedding-themed attire? I counted five.)
8 responses to “FancyPants Are Out of the Closet”
Pants liner? Lace duster? I know not of what you speak.
Opera clothes: often even more entertaining than the opera itself!
(although from your most recent post, it sounds like The Marriage of Figaro was indeed really good, probably winning out even over the live participatory fashion show)
I’m glad the pant slips finally got their day in the sun, or probably under the moonlight, I guess, decently obscured in silk chiffon and gently shaded by a lace duster. (I would love a J. Peterman duster, in theory. In practice, I suspect that there is no way I could keep swooping enough to live up to the illustrations, as with basically all J. Peterman clothes.)
KC – Thanks to you, today I learned:
J Peterman founded his company because he found a cowboy duster
J Peterman is a real person, not just a character on Seinfeld. I think I learn this intermittently.
A real person, but also a definitely fake person, I think?
I did not know that! At least, I didn’t remember…
Big Dot – They must have them in New Zealand under a different name. I don’t remember the actual name for pants slips (liners?) but you can see them here:
https://mocklog.com/2018/12/09/mall-shopping/
As for a duster – I think of it as a kimono that goes to your heels, as opposed to a short kimono.However, Wikipedia says:
“A duster is a light, loose-fitting long coat. The original dusters were full-length, light-colored canvas or linen coats worn by horsemen to protect their clothing from trail dust.”
Wikipedia has three entries for J Peterman:
John Peterman, operator of the J. Peterman Company
The J. Peterman Company, an apparel company
Jacopo Peterman, a fictional version of John Peterman, portrayed by John O’Hurley on the television sitcom Seinfeld
That third is hilarious! I am impressed.
(I was more trying to say that while there’s a real person, the catalogue.corporate persona is probably not that guy, in a similar way to how celebrities often have a stage/press presence/persona and then also who they are when they are not in performance mode (I mean, most humans do this to some degree, showing different sides of themselves in different social/professional settings and putting up fake fronts to varying degres, but it’s probably most frequently exacerbated/fictionalized in celebrities of various kinds). In this case, presumably there is at least a filter one runs on one’s personality when one’s medium of expression is an idiosyncratic clothing catalogue, but I also would not be particularly surprised if the clothing catalogue J. Peterman concept turned out to be an almost entirely constructed/performative entity.)
KC – yes, like Betty Crocker.