Tour Stop 4
The Review Room
Here all the recent designs are reviewed by 7 avid X-Philes for likeability. Only the best clothes get past this point.This first dress on the right wall is what Kate calls the 'post Star Wars' dress... the first dress she drew after finally kicing her Star Wars addiction.... except for the fact that it's not gone.... and she is desperately searching for a Queen Amidala T-shirt in adult sizes......
Hanging next to the blue and white dress is the of the Queen Amidala dresses. For about a month or so, Kate was somehow mysteriously addicted to Star Wars, a relapse of her addiction in fourth grade. We assume it's something about being in a grade that's a multiple of four. Luckily, though, she didn't forget her roots, and still watched the X-Files religiously during this time. This dress is inspired by the dress Natalie Portman wears in the last, 'Parade' scene of 'The Phantom Menace'. Note that with this dress, Scully doesn't need long hair-it's been ingeniusly hidden with a meideval-style headdress.
Here now, next to the last Queen Amidala is the second dress in the four-dress series. This one again has a headdress that hides the length of Scully's hair. The designer has no clue where she'd ever wear these, but they were awfully fun to draw.....8^) The jewels were gone over with a silver pen 'borrowed' form a friend in shop class. (he didn't seem to want it, and so I figured to put it to good use!)
The third Queen Amidala dress is what Kate calls a 'techno dress', a dress that has some kind of technoogy embedded or integrated into it. IN this case, the purple is actually a fiber-optic shimmer, controlled by a battery pack hidden in the top of the headdress. THe headdress was inspired by the time Kate dresed up totally spontaneously and threw a cape over her head and said 'Hey! Queen Amidala!"
This is the last Amidala dress, ermine hemmed with Kate's signature 'Enigma Squiggles' Yes sir? You have a question? Why aare they called Enigma Squiggles? Well, I assume you've seen the X-Files episode 'Humbug' with the Connundrum, the jigsaw puzzle tattooed man> In real life his name's the Enigma. One day Kate was doodling on her arm in class with a metallic pen, and soon she had doodled in these squiggles all he way up her arm. In short, someone said she should get her whole body tattooed in the squiggles, sort of like the Enigma and his puzzle pieces. So far, the designer is under 18, and her parents said no way, but after she gets to 18, there's no telling what might happen.....
This next outfit is grounded in reality. The white top is like one Kate owns, (oredered from the Delia*s catalogue) She wore it to school, and even though her underwear wasn't showing, and the whole thing was more than decent, some %#(@& social studies teacher told her she couldn't wear it, and she had to wear her coat for the rest of the day, even though it was 90 degrees outside. The black skirt was a Buffalo Exchange find, but the parental unit said no.
