At the theatre
Yesterday and the day before, I splurged, and went to the theatre two nights in a row. I saw Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chirita of Bîrzoieni, adapted as a musical by Iarina Demian from Vasile Alecsandri's classic comedy written in 1852. A good pretext was that on Sunday next the theatrical season would be at an end, and I had wanted to see these plays for ages, so I invited my friends E. and D., respectively, and off we went!
We really enjoyed ourselves. The performances were great (though I do not particularly appreciate the style that seems to be in vogue for Shakespeare nowadays: very fast speaking, and giving heavy sexual overtones to every scene that allows it in any way), and I also relished the music and the singing, the costumes and the décor. Pictures from the productions can be seen at the Bucharest Comedy Theatre website (the English on the website is poor but the pics are great): Twelfth Night (more here) and Chirita.
All the actors did a very good job, but Emilia Popescu, Stefan Banica jr. and Tudor Chirila are truly delicious :)
Dressing up to go to the theatre was a joy in itself as well :) With so few chances, in my circumstances, for dressing elegantly, I have long realized that I must create my own occasions for showing off my style!
That's why when I go to plays or concerts, be it at the theatre, at the Opera House, at the Atheneum, or other concert venues, I always try to dress my best, even though the unfortunate trend is more and more to wear casual clothes - so badly so, that, just by looking at them, you cannot tell whether people are at a nice cultural event or at school/work. Jeans at the Opera? Yes, I've seen it more than once. Ugh.
What did I wear? :)
On Wednesday, for Twelfth Night, I wore my pink-and-grey, flouncy drop-waist skirt, with a pink camisole embellished with lace and beads, and over that a long-sleeved black, tight, ruffle-front blouse. My high-heeled black sandals with a bag to match, necklace of black small beads and a hair pin decorated with the same :)
On Thursday, I had: black trousers, a black and silver blouse with very long bell sleeves made of lace, my silver vinyl jacket and pointy black leather mules, and my Guess black bag. When I had the jacket on, I turned up the ends of the sleeves, in such a way that they looked like great lace cuffs for my jacket. I think that made for a fine look that alluded to a military uniform :)
My friends were also very elegant! We were quite the ladies.
In conclusion, I had a great time, and I look forward to the next occasion to display my particular variety of dandyism!