What do I wear?
I have to pick up my brother at the train station tonight. He is due in at 11:30 pm , but since it's Amtrak, I figure I will be sitting around until at least 1 or 2.
This station is a relatively un modernized, mint green tiled, neon tube lit, Art Deco wonder. It always feels slightly underwater from the light reflecting off of the tile and it is so insanely LIMINAL even at normal hours, it's almost creepy. It's almost always empty except for the wandering junkies and the roaches. So dystopian.
This is an unparalleled fashion moment. If I look like a suburban housewife, I will attract the handout seekers and they will try to beg money, smokes, candy, whatever they can from me the whole time I am there. I could go full gothic witch and sit on the floor with the roaches and read tarot cards. I could go the Balenciaga route and wear fake homeless looking clothes and ask THEM for stuff. I could wear a muumuu and leis and welcome everyone who comes through the door with "Aloha!" I also have a floor length formal gown in the same color as the wall and floor tile - I could just "blend into the walls".
I simply cannot go somewhere with so much atmosphere and not attempt to match it somehow.
Read the roaches’ cards & no one will ask you for anything, including your brother for another ride anywhere, ever again.
Do I go with the fortune teller vibe or witchy? I can do either, but I do have a black lace and gauze outfit that I have been told makes me look like Stevie Nicks at a funeral. But it will be the middle of the night and at my age I might look more like Grandmama Adams.
Witchy Grandmama.
