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misterblackbird) wrote2010-09-25 04:46 pm
misterblackbird) wrote2010-09-25 04:46 pm
Entry 434; Day 645
[Video Post]
((Blink!))
((The dark image grows bright quickly: Cain's room, and, stepping away from the camera, Cain himself. But not at all dressed like himself. Rather, he's draped in layers and layers of robes, all scarlet and green and gold and black--and embroidered all over with crests and leaves and patterns.))
I don't often use this camera, but I thought it would be best to show exactly what I have on rather than just describe it. It's perhaps too remarkable for words. And--((He laughs))--quite different, I must say, from my usual attire.
((Holding the sleeves up and out and standing well back from the camera on his Network device, he takes a turn and displays the kimono--more than one, really. It's a formal affair, really, with so many parts and layers, the topmost one looser over his shoulders than the others, and the hem of it all hanging long behind him. The belt of it, though, is narrow. The whole effect is something closer to a dressing gown than a proper robe.))
Riff and I found it--them, perhaps, but they all seemed like they were to be worn at once--in one of the costume closets down near the stage itself. It's not the first time I've dipped into those closets for something to wear, but usually I have more of an occasion for it.
This time, I just rather felt like finding this sort of outfit. I've no idea where the notion came from either. If I'd seen more people about wearing unsual things, I'd say it was a curse. But I've not really seen anything of the sort, despite how peculiar this might be for me. I don't know what put the idea into my head.
Perhaps it's only restlessness at the change of the seasons.
Anyway, I wanted to find something like this this morning after feeling quite discontent with my usual clothes. So I did. And I think I've done quite well with it.
((He looks down at it, still holding the sleeves out.))
I'm not sure that Riff and I have it arranged quite properly, though. For one thing, it seems far too long for me--both at the hem and at the sleeves. Although perhaps that is the custom. I've seen the sleeves worn at least this long in the City before, but the hem is rather like the train of a woman's gown. And I'm not sure how to solve that. Still, we have it close enough, I suppose. Lukia would know better how it ought to be worn, I suppose. Hah--I haven't thought of her in an age. Hers were almost always scarlet and crimson.
((Although, he may very well have the two sides folded over one another wrong: the way one dresses the dead, not the living.))
Still, it does suit me, don't you think? And it is quite comfortable, though I don't think I can move in it any more easily than I could in my ordinary clothes.
I think if I were to go out in it, I should worry quite a bit about passersby and the wind. I think I'd have to wear it like a very long coat over trousers and a waistcoat.
((He looks at it all again...))
I could wear only one layer, of course, with the belt. As I said: like a very long sort of coat.
Merry, you may not recall it, but I did say once that I'd wear this sort of a Japanese outfit for you someday. Or did I say that you ought to wear it, and in exchange I'd dress up like the Sultan of Turkey again? Either way, I think you and I were both going to end up dressed like this at some time or other. And now I seem to have got ahead on it.
But, then, I think the promise we made was that we would take a trip around the world after we were free from the City--you and me and Riff. And we'd all three of us dress up in the clothes from the different countries we'd visit.
I'm ahead twice, though, now, since I've already dressed up as the Sultan of Turkey and now in Japanese robes.
((One last turn~))
I told you it would be far better for me to show what I have on than to simply describe it. I still don't know what possessed me to wear such a thing, but it is rather enjoyable.
((Holding the front of the robe well closed and the draping sleeve well out of the way, he reaches across the desk again to turn off the video recording. It blacks out again in a--))
((Blink!))
[//video post ends]
[ooc: So Cain got inceived with Jezebel's idea that kimonos are a really awesome thing. If he ever finds out whose idea this is, well, he probably won't be too happy... Ahem. I mean, he is for now because he gave in to the idea and all. Anyway, once, long ago, I had a drawing of Cain in a kimono that I drew for a Poly alum. Alas, I cannot find it now, but suffice to say that Cain looks pretty awesome in layers of red and green and gold and black~ If I do find it, I will edit with a link :D]
((Blink!))
((The dark image grows bright quickly: Cain's room, and, stepping away from the camera, Cain himself. But not at all dressed like himself. Rather, he's draped in layers and layers of robes, all scarlet and green and gold and black--and embroidered all over with crests and leaves and patterns.))
I don't often use this camera, but I thought it would be best to show exactly what I have on rather than just describe it. It's perhaps too remarkable for words. And--((He laughs))--quite different, I must say, from my usual attire.
((Holding the sleeves up and out and standing well back from the camera on his Network device, he takes a turn and displays the kimono--more than one, really. It's a formal affair, really, with so many parts and layers, the topmost one looser over his shoulders than the others, and the hem of it all hanging long behind him. The belt of it, though, is narrow. The whole effect is something closer to a dressing gown than a proper robe.))
Riff and I found it--them, perhaps, but they all seemed like they were to be worn at once--in one of the costume closets down near the stage itself. It's not the first time I've dipped into those closets for something to wear, but usually I have more of an occasion for it.
This time, I just rather felt like finding this sort of outfit. I've no idea where the notion came from either. If I'd seen more people about wearing unsual things, I'd say it was a curse. But I've not really seen anything of the sort, despite how peculiar this might be for me. I don't know what put the idea into my head.
Perhaps it's only restlessness at the change of the seasons.
Anyway, I wanted to find something like this this morning after feeling quite discontent with my usual clothes. So I did. And I think I've done quite well with it.
((He looks down at it, still holding the sleeves out.))
I'm not sure that Riff and I have it arranged quite properly, though. For one thing, it seems far too long for me--both at the hem and at the sleeves. Although perhaps that is the custom. I've seen the sleeves worn at least this long in the City before, but the hem is rather like the train of a woman's gown. And I'm not sure how to solve that. Still, we have it close enough, I suppose. Lukia would know better how it ought to be worn, I suppose. Hah--I haven't thought of her in an age. Hers were almost always scarlet and crimson.
((Although, he may very well have the two sides folded over one another wrong: the way one dresses the dead, not the living.))
Still, it does suit me, don't you think? And it is quite comfortable, though I don't think I can move in it any more easily than I could in my ordinary clothes.
I think if I were to go out in it, I should worry quite a bit about passersby and the wind. I think I'd have to wear it like a very long coat over trousers and a waistcoat.
((He looks at it all again...))
I could wear only one layer, of course, with the belt. As I said: like a very long sort of coat.
Merry, you may not recall it, but I did say once that I'd wear this sort of a Japanese outfit for you someday. Or did I say that you ought to wear it, and in exchange I'd dress up like the Sultan of Turkey again? Either way, I think you and I were both going to end up dressed like this at some time or other. And now I seem to have got ahead on it.
But, then, I think the promise we made was that we would take a trip around the world after we were free from the City--you and me and Riff. And we'd all three of us dress up in the clothes from the different countries we'd visit.
I'm ahead twice, though, now, since I've already dressed up as the Sultan of Turkey and now in Japanese robes.
((One last turn~))
I told you it would be far better for me to show what I have on than to simply describe it. I still don't know what possessed me to wear such a thing, but it is rather enjoyable.
((Holding the front of the robe well closed and the draping sleeve well out of the way, he reaches across the desk again to turn off the video recording. It blacks out again in a--))
((Blink!))
[//video post ends]
[ooc: So Cain got inceived with Jezebel's idea that kimonos are a really awesome thing. If he ever finds out whose idea this is, well, he probably won't be too happy... Ahem. I mean, he is for now because he gave in to the idea and all. Anyway, once, long ago, I had a drawing of Cain in a kimono that I drew for a Poly alum. Alas, I cannot find it now, but suffice to say that Cain looks pretty awesome in layers of red and green and gold and black~ If I do find it, I will edit with a link :D]
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[Which is partly from the kimono and partly from the fact that it's Cain making a video post, of all things.]
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But goodness, you're really quite a sight today! I can't imagine how much work must've gone into making all that, with the embroidery and finery and all.
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And neither can I, really. Someone worked her fingers to the bone stitching all this. I think this is hardly the sort of thing one would wear on an ordinary day.
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I swear this comment never came into my inbox D:
No worries!
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Perhaps it is just so one can look magnificent.
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