The dance, as I was saying, started well. We met up, as we usually did on a Friday, at the local TGIF a couple of doors down past the Jive Club to have a few drinks and admire each other... I've described my dress already.
Scarlett never does costume by halves so she was wearing a red proper poodle skirt with a poodle on it, a real pointy bra under a tight white cardigan top, a scarf and ankle socks with flat shoes.
Briar was a little more ladylike. Her skirt was full, made out of black cotton with rows of pink ribbon sewn around the hem and she had at least three petticoats underneath. But her heels were high and her cardigan wasn't quite as tight as Scarlett's. Like I said, more ladylike.
Madelaine was, like me, wearing an actual dress in a dark green made from taffeta and not that different from something Julianne Moore might have worn in Far From Heaven. It was fabulous, just be low knee length. She'd found a pair of dark green pumps to match and she'd contrasted the green of the dress with a swathe of pink petticoats. She'd done her make-up in a 1950's way it it was like she was a movie star.