Christmas Clothes both Bizarre and Splendid

I pose a question: What’s wrong with this picture?

Yeah… Welcome to Sydney

A very … classy place

…full of style…

Yea verily the Santa suit has become some kind of Dionysian theatrical mask, which allows the wearer to get loose and transgress social boundaries.

Anciently December was also the month of Saturnalia, the Roman celebration of tomfoolery and subversion.

Co-incidence? I think not!!!!!!!

See I could have said to these Santas, “Io, Saturnalia!” (”praise to Saturn!”) and they would have been like “What?” but I would have been totally right.

Anyhowz I was moseying along reflecting on the cultural morphology of the Santa suit when I happened upon THIS tremendously bizarro situation

Ah yes, the Hare Krishnas have really upped the ante this year.

Choreography! An incredibly catchy song! Winning smiles!

A delicious lollipop rainbow.

Plus a harmonium - such the good accessory.

(Got given one myself for Christmas in fact and I’m going to wear it with everything)

I stalked em for a while because it really was a catchy song… Made me want to join the movement, really…

but then this crazy HAIR quartet emerged from the shadows

…and I was like, heck, Sydney is a jungle! What next?

My Japanese source informs me these are cosplay (costume play) kids who dress up as characters from video games and manga.

They were cute and shy and awesome and carried a massive key that could probably unlock some massive castle.

And speaking of jungles, round the corner in the Galeries Victoria I discovered this masterpiece of assemblage bedecking a hip lady…

and she calls it her ‘jungle’ (adorable)

Some Tatty Devine jewellery, some trinkets from Japan, a Bolivian finger puppet or two… All very casual

I thought, jungle indeed, I could aspire to that, jungle bells, jungle all the way.

I might have to revisit her and see what she does next. Maybe she wears other climate zones too like alpine tundra, boom-tish!

Anyway back on the street a bus suddenly disgorged this striking creature before me

Are you sensing the red theme pervading this blog post? I guess it’s subliminal variations on Santa or something.

Czech out that lustrous raven hair.

Czech out those lustrous raven shoes.

Very nice work.

But we’re getting a bit normal, aren’t we…

If you’ll just travel back with me through time and space, here is an epic costume from a Dances of Vice party in NYC the other week:

Krampus the Christmas demon? (He’s so hot right now)

And just to prove my Santa theory, I conclude with further pictorial evidence of Saturnalian tomfoolery, this time in New York.

Happy Holidays!

It’s the simple things, friends… remember that