There's a market every Sunday at Kingsford1 junction. It really is a treasure trove - today I found a really lovely jade necklace for my mum's birthday ad a stuffed moose for my brother's, as well as a cheap and fuzzy sweater and some black pants for myself. Unfortunately the market is situated in an unused parking lot, so you can't exactly try things on. But if the pants turn out to fit I may just have myself formal wear! I went into Fancy Schmancy in Bondi the other day and tried on a tail coat (which is AWESOME) with a top hat3. And a cravat! Hee! Mr Darcy, eat your heart out!
Of course the market had plenty of other cool stuff to look at. There was a great leather cap I couldn't afford, and also that archaic item: leather trousers. These are so rare nowadays that the manufacturer, for the benefit of those sprightly youngsters that weren't around in the seventies and thus may not recognise the mythical pants, has in fact stenciled "leather trousers" on the inside.
I was also on the lookout for black and red striped stockings to wear to Liza's party tonight, because my dad, upon seeing me covetously gazing at Sock Dreams' website, said that the market has several stalls wiv stripy socks on. Unfortunately they were all below the knee, the only stockings were the usual boring nylon ones.
1Incidentally I got to thinking about the etymology of colonial georgraphy. Back in Ye Olde England there was probably a river, forded by the King's men, who therefore called it King's Ford, or Kingsford. Then at some point a family who lived there took the name as their last name, and still later on an escutcheon of that family came out to Australia and did something notable enough to get a suburb named after him, although the suburb itself is entirely devoid of rivers for the King to ford. It's fascinating, isn't it? I'm constantly amazed that people use such unimaginative names in SF&F. There are always so many colonies - of course, colonies are where everything interesting happens, aren't they? But they persist in using generic placenames suitable to the civilisation level, or just stringing together series of random consonants and inserting vowels where absolutely neccesary2, when there must be plenty of exciting epic/galactic historical events and people to harken back to.
2Which is a fun method, but may work better when dealing with aliens and things.
3A collapsible magicians hat, because all the proper ones were rented out. They apparently derive their magical popping-up-again powers from some really uncomfortable and heavy wiring that pokes into your head, I wouldn't recommend them.
Of course the market had plenty of other cool stuff to look at. There was a great leather cap I couldn't afford, and also that archaic item: leather trousers. These are so rare nowadays that the manufacturer, for the benefit of those sprightly youngsters that weren't around in the seventies and thus may not recognise the mythical pants, has in fact stenciled "leather trousers" on the inside.
I was also on the lookout for black and red striped stockings to wear to Liza's party tonight, because my dad, upon seeing me covetously gazing at Sock Dreams' website, said that the market has several stalls wiv stripy socks on. Unfortunately they were all below the knee, the only stockings were the usual boring nylon ones.
1Incidentally I got to thinking about the etymology of colonial georgraphy. Back in Ye Olde England there was probably a river, forded by the King's men, who therefore called it King's Ford, or Kingsford. Then at some point a family who lived there took the name as their last name, and still later on an escutcheon of that family came out to Australia and did something notable enough to get a suburb named after him, although the suburb itself is entirely devoid of rivers for the King to ford. It's fascinating, isn't it? I'm constantly amazed that people use such unimaginative names in SF&F. There are always so many colonies - of course, colonies are where everything interesting happens, aren't they? But they persist in using generic placenames suitable to the civilisation level, or just stringing together series of random consonants and inserting vowels where absolutely neccesary2, when there must be plenty of exciting epic/galactic historical events and people to harken back to.
2Which is a fun method, but may work better when dealing with aliens and things.
3A collapsible magicians hat, because all the proper ones were rented out. They apparently derive their magical popping-up-again powers from some really uncomfortable and heavy wiring that pokes into your head, I wouldn't recommend them.
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