{"id":4023,"date":"2015-11-02T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:18:56","slug":"dancing-in-time-and-space-at-sea-10312015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4023","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in Time And Space \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [10\/31\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TImeandspace\"<\/a>\u201cTime and Relative Dimension in Space\u201d Yes, that\u2019s me! A Type 40 T.A.R.D.I.S, I was already a museum piece when you stole me. ~ The Doctor\u2019s Wife, Doctor Who<\/em><\/p>\n

The costume that was a long time in coming; because I was utterly tired of putting on whiskers every season (although I love Chesh, and I played her well \u2013 she\u2019s just had her time for now is all); I wanted something elegant, something lady-like, with a nod to the more quirky side of well\u2026me\u2026<\/p>\n

I stumbled on the design completely by accident, I was just looking up Doctor Who memes one day, and lo and behold, there is a Victorian three piece women\u2019s suit\u2026that is every inch a T.A.R.D.I.S. Of course, having such a thing made was leagues out of my price range at the time \u2013 even with the discounts that most seamstresses I know are kind enough to give. I tracked down which pattern it was from, and resigned myself to at least another year of Chesh. I wasn\u2019t\u2019 able to scrape together the funds until this last vacation, and even then it wasn\u2019t easy (is anything ever really?)<\/p>\n

Two nights before All Hallows I was sitting on the bed watching Tomorrowland<\/em> and carefully stitching the \u201cPolice Public Call Box\u201d ribbon along the upper edge of the bustier (that could not be done earlier because I couldn\u2019t order it that far in advance), about a month before that Amras and I were in Hot Topic in San Diego and I squealed with delight as I found the matching accessories.<\/p>\n

Then of course there was the hair\u2026the ever-present, ever-non-co-operative hair<\/em>. I only do one hairstyle for Halloween, and spiral curls take 45 minutes of twisting and pulling in the salon chair no matter how much care I take with my tresses. But it\u2019s usually worth it. Originally this costume was going to have a top hat, but though the original model pulled off that look beautifully it was simply not going to work for me. Instead I topped the curls with a \u2018Police Box\u2019 bow, which had a much better effect.<\/p>\n

And since I always do everything in a \u2018go big or stay home\u2019 kind of fashion, there were also the accessories to think about. Months ago I ordered two sets of earrings, one TARDIS pair and one \u2018weeping angel\u2019 pair; I wore one of each and Tolly wore the other two because she was being The Doctor. I had a proper-sized yale key on a chain around my neck, a high gallifrean design painted across my collarbone and even over the knee socks with the tardis window design on them. And that was the little subtle stuff, the bigger stuff \u2013 the sonic screwdriver, River Song\u2019s diary, the pocket watch, those were all in various pockets or being carried. If you knew the show, you knew the costume, if you didn\u2019t \u2013 I just had a gorgeous Victorian ballgown.<\/p>\n

One of my co-workers described it as \u2018exquisite\u2019 and I\u2019m thinking she was pretty much right.<\/p>\n

And I had sound effects, because my phone has the sound of the TARDIS engines loaded as one of the ringtone options, all I had to do was set an alarm to go off every 15 minutes and drop the phone in my pocket, it was too loud to hear it at the party of course but so not the point!<\/p>\n

Of course, all of those elements take a while to put together. I had the hair done at 5:00, and it was finished by 5:45, after which I went straight to dinner, and after about six times of my asking what time it was (my watch is currently non-fuctional) Amras finally says<\/p>\n

You have stuff to get ready don\u2019t you?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, I have rather a lot to do..<\/em><\/p>\n

Go! I\u2019ll see you later\u2026have fun!<\/em><\/p>\n

So I left him and our tablemate to the rest of their supper, cranked up \u201cTime Warp\u201d as loud as it would go, and begged the assistance of my roomie to help me do up lacings and buttons that I was just never going to be able to reach myself. And doing up jacket buttons with nails that just refuse to dry? That\u2019s just not going to happen, I actually had to ask my cabin steward to do it! Because Tolly had had to go up to work.<\/p>\n

That said, that is just what I wore for the passenger<\/em> party. All told the TARDIS is nearly a $700 costume (and it\u2019s probably worth a pretty penny more than that but my seamstress gave me an exceptionally generous rate), and<\/em> it\u2019s satin\u2026if anything gets spilled on it that\u2019s a good cause for a heart attack. It\u2019s not something I could risk wearing to the crew party, and there is \u2013 after all \u2013 one costume I never mind repeating.<\/p>\n

How to go from elegant to pin-up girl in ten minutes.<\/p>\n

The change to Green Fairy from almost anything \u2013 even something as elaborate as the TARDIS \u2013 does not take me long. I\u2019ve been donning that costume for so long that I could most likely put it together in the dark.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the hair-style fits both costumes (one of the reasons I wear it that way actually) it was a simple matter of unclipping the bow from my hair and shaking the curls down.\"kyliemoulinrouge_gallery__392x550\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Green Fairy costume was built to withstand the Halloweens I used to go to the bar \u2013 it can handle more abuse than even a crew party can throw at it. And, because it\u2019s built on a leotard it\u2019s no more risqu\u00e9 for me than wearing a one piece bathing suit. That said it looks<\/em> much more risqu\u00e9 than that; I could feel the eyes following me as I walked down the I-95 to the elevator. Normally the attention would kind of cow me, but there are times that you just feel confident, that costume makes me feel confident.<\/p>\n

The cool thing for us was that the \u2018Cats played the party, our<\/em> party, the real<\/em> party which is actually much preferable to playing the public party. The pax party is really a pale shadow to the below decks party; for one thing, we aren\u2019t reserved \u2013 because it\u2019s the one place we don\u2019t have to be, and for two, we know<\/em> how to show a band they\u2019re appreciated. In response to that the musos kick everything up a notch, and I feel the floor start to vibrate under my feet. It always is, and always has been, all about the bass line. All of a sudden I was back at that dive bar that has long since closed its doors, not caring what anyone thought of me, not caring how many eyes were on me (well, except for the ones that perhaps mattered), and just\u2026allowed to be me<\/em> for the first time in what feels like ages. Don\u2019t think, don\u2019t worry just move<\/em> and everything else will fall away from you. It had been a long long<\/em> time.<\/p>\n

On whim a few nights before Amras had asked me if I wanted to sing; now keep in mind, singing for a crew party is not quite like singing for any other audience \u2013 for one thing it\u2019s much much<\/em> louder, and for two, there\u2019s so little pressure that even I wasn\u2019t nervous. I just climbed up on the stage, said a tiny little prayer in the back of my mind and looked over at Amras who was grinning at me impishly<\/p>\n

Ready?<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do this\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Rrrright now he\u2019s probably slow dancin\u2019 with a bleach-blonde tramp and she\u2019s probably getting\u2019 frisky
\nRight now, he\u2019s probably buyin\u2019 her some fruity little drink \u2018cause she can\u2019t shoot whiskey
\nRight now, he\u2019s probably up behind her with a pool stick showing her how to shoot a combo\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The tempo kicked off too fast and I found myself almost unable to keep up with the words \u2013 no one\u2019s fault, these things happen; and the crowd couldn\u2019t have cared less which is yet another confidence booster; all the crowd cares about is that it\u2019s one of their own up there and they can make as much noise as they want.<\/p>\n

Overall, despite the fact that the next day we were all a bit bleary eyed and slow-moving, it did us all so<\/em> much good.<\/p>\n

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