I was turning heads — but I could barely move my own. A man playing chess in the park said, “You look good baby, I want to take you home.”
When I caught one lady staring, I asked, “Would you wear this,” to which she replied, “No. Is someone paying you to wear it?”With some much-need creative input from my mom, who helped me stitch together the pillowy shoulder piece with two yards of black fabric and a spool of polyester batting — the stuff used to make quilts soft — it took about three hours to get the structure just right.
I tried topping the formation with a slice of nylon as the headpiece, hoping to make it look as close to the tip of a condom as possible. But after an hour of failing to affix the ultra-fine sheet onto the orb, I decided to just wind the nylon around my head and clasp it with a hair tie.As I strutted through the city streets in the getup, I repeatedly heard “What the f- – k?,” and “Oh my god!,” from wide-eyed passersby.
My mother donated a pair of her old sheer black socks that I used on my arms to mimic Censori’s see-through overlay.And although the costume was stressful to make and model, I was surprised by the number of compliments it received. “Yes, you look like a condom,” a woman in Bryant Park said as we exchanged laughs over the frock. When I asked if she’d wear it, I got a quick, “Absolutely not,” in response.A man playing chess in the park said, “You look good baby, I want to take you home.”Stefano Giovannini“I love it. I love the hair,” said a woman as we crossed Sixth Avenue in lockstep.A man playing chess in the park said, “You look good baby, I want to take you home.
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