Thursday, May 20, 2010

CAT SWEATERS

Photos that Clancy Dennehy took of me in my cat sweaters.
It was taken then never used for an article on sentimental fashion objects for some Canadian fashion mag. The article ran sans pics. Another mag was gonna re-use the article but I dunno what happened. Should I run it here?
This is 2002?2003? I was experimenting with a pencil-thin at the time (mixing up the 'stache) but it's tooo high maintenance, if you don't shave every 3 hours it looks nasty and you need an eyebrow pencil to highlight it (a tip that John Waters has written about somewheres).
Anyways these sweaters were knit from a Mary Maxim pattern by my Mother and given to me over ten years ago. I still regularly wear them. The pink one is of my childhood cat Precious. My Mother under-recognizes some of her own talents (she's also a really good writer, I used to run a column of her TV Movie Reviews in The Drippy Gazette). Clancy interviewed her at length for a never completed documentary on July Fourth Toilet.
Sadly she can't knit anymore due to arthritis.


4 comments:

Stacy said...

Awesome!
I prefer the fuller 'stache on you myself.

Robert Dayton, Junior said...

Yeah, it was a brief phase, an unwise move to say the least.
I hold tight to the full stache to this day, tho it's cultural meaning may have shifted from when I first grew it in the goatee laden 90s. Hopefully people see it and catch my drift, where I'm coming from.

Lindiwe said...

What about one with the Christmas sweaters?!

Robert Dayton, Junior said...
This comment has been removed by the author.