This
is disturbing: It began last week when I got lost in Brooklyn. And then I saw this sign.
Ever since, I find myself thinking about women who require
corsets in 'hard to fit sizes.' I mean, what is so hard about fitting them?
Do they need help getting into their corsets? Are there people at
this shop who's job it is to force fit corsets? Do they need special
training for this job? Where will they work if Rachel goes out of
business? To compound it, the store was in an Orthodox Jewish area
and since it was Saturday, it was closed. So does that mean that
Rachel's customers are Orthodox women, who wear hard to fit corsets?
My mind boggles. Then I got to wonder about Rachel. How did she get
into this business? What got her interested in corsets? Was it
something that happened when she was very young? Did she walk in on
her parents eating cheeseburgers? Did she start with 'easy to fit'
corsets and go on to specialize? And why are the windows above
Rachel's shop boarded up? What goes on up there that they are trying
to hide?
I doubt that this has anything much to do with the
shapeshifting reptilian extraterrestrials who built the pyramids, but
you never know. I have been loosing sleep over this.
I felt the need to share.
1 comment:
Reminds of my old friend Walter who, during the '60s, made "hand-fitted" macramé brassieres.
Baxter
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