This was taken just days before my birthday. For those of you who don’t know me in person, I’m the third girl from the left (shorter than everyone else, in the dark red dress). I’ll mail you a cookie if you can guess how old I am, lol :) Our burlesque troupe was out, most of us in “pin up” wear to pass out fliers about our troupe and our next event. We do this all the damn time, and we tend to go out in force right before an event. It’s exhausting, but it’s the only way to get the word out that we exist and what’s going on with us. We have an art auction coming up next weekend, and I’m really excited for it. For those of you IN  THE ICT  AREA? If you have art you can donate, or if you know anyone who does,  PLEASE  contact us through wichitaburlesque.com or find us on FB (search for Wichita  Burlesque, or search for my stage name, Violette Firefly for details). Here’s where I  am taking birthday privilege to be catty: I have no idea what the girl to my right was thinking in the flapper dress and crazy hair: she looks like drag gone bad, and I WILL pin her down and give her a makeover before our next event, so help me. I know I didn’t look my best, it was HOT (98 degrees at 9pm!) and any cute hair or make up I had when I started out at 5pm was long gone when that picture was taken at 9pm. Still, I felt like pulling a Stacy and Clinton and dragging her into a nearby shop to fix her hair and lipstick, and to tailor her dress with safety pins just a teensy bit (even though I know flapper dresses weren’t tailored back in the day).  Can you blame me?

This was taken just days before my birthday. For those of you who don’t know me in person, I’m the third girl from the left (shorter than everyone else, in the dark red dress). I’ll mail you a cookie if you can guess how old I am, lol :)

Our burlesque troupe was out, most of us in “pin up” wear to pass out fliers about our troupe and our next event. We do this all the damn time, and we tend to go out in force right before an event. It’s exhausting, but it’s the only way to get the word out that we exist and what’s going on with us. We have an art auction coming up next weekend, and I’m really excited for it. For those of you IN  THE ICT  AREA? If you have art you can donate, or if you know anyone who does,  PLEASE  contact us through wichitaburlesque.com or find us on FB (search for Wichita  Burlesque, or search for my stage name, Violette Firefly for details).

Here’s where I  am taking birthday privilege to be catty: I have no idea what the girl to my right was thinking in the flapper dress and crazy hair: she looks like drag gone bad, and I WILL pin her down and give her a makeover before our next event, so help me. I know I didn’t look my best, it was HOT (98 degrees at 9pm!) and any cute hair or make up I had when I started out at 5pm was long gone when that picture was taken at 9pm. Still, I felt like pulling a Stacy and Clinton and dragging her into a nearby shop to fix her hair and lipstick, and to tailor her dress with safety pins just a teensy bit (even though I know flapper dresses weren’t tailored back in the day).  Can you blame me?