Pixie Dust, Thursday

[tinkerbitch]

It was nearly prom! Which meant formalwear! Tink loved formalwear. People looked ever so pretty in formalwear, and most of them even bathed themselves.

There were racks and racks filled with dresses, and a good selection of tuxes and suits as well.

Let's not forget shoes.

Pixie Dust was open.

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Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

You masochist.

Re: Shop With Tink

[multiplez]

Z came in carrying a garment bag. "Okay," she said to the pixie, "I've already got the dress. Now I need shoes. And, you know, accessory...type things. Help?"

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[tinkerbitch]

Tink gaped. And stared. And tried to put those words into English.

The girl had brought the dress to burn it? For burning purposes? To burn and drink some hard liquor and hope to erase its painful, painful presence from the inside of her skull? Bleach. Bleach was required. Right?

Re: Shop With Tink

[multiplez]

Z peered around the garment bag to make sure she'd brought the right dress and not, say, her dress uniform. Yep, that was the dress. "Is something wrong?"

Re: Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

Something ... wrong?

Oh, no! This girl had been kidnapped by that insane cult of people who kidnapped them and hid them in the basement and made them all insane homeless mental patients who had no fashion sense whatsoever! Like the crazy lady who hated shoes!

(This was, in fact, the start of the Kerrigan/Tink war, in a nutshell. The war that Tink was still unaware of.)

Okay. She should breathe into a paper bag or something and hand Tink that dress and Tink would take it into the back room, where she burned things, and they would find her a new dress. One that wasn't horrifyingly tacky.

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[multiplez]

"What? No!" Z protested, holding the dress away from Tink. "I like this dress! And--look, it's not like I have a date or anything, I have to get attention somehow. And um. I don't have enough money for a new dress anyway."

Re: Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

Tink tilted her head.

Had the girl considered Saran Wrap? Colored Saran Wrap and Christmas lights? That would get attention.

Tacky, yes, but ... well. So was the dress. And at least Saran Wrap seemed avant-garde.

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[multiplez]

"I'm not wearing Saran Wrap to my prom!" Z protested, clinging to the dress defensively.

Re: Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

Oh, very good. The girl had some shred of decency.

She was serious? She was wearing that dress? Tink couldn't talk her into something slinky and red and sequined and utterly fabulous? There were ways to get attention that weren't ... that ... thing.

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[multiplez]

"No! I already paid for this dress! And--and--" Z lifted her chin. "And nothing you say can make me not like it."

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[tinkerbitch]

Oh, the hell with it. Fine. She could keep the ugly dress and Tink wouldn't burn it and Tink would think of this as an art project. How presentable could one make a tacky, hideous dress, if one accessorized correctly? Because accessories could hide a multitude of sins. It was like a challenge.

First - this was important - shoes. In the searing neon yellow accent color, would be Tink's recommendation. What sort of shoes? Wedges? Strappy heels? Chunky and casual? Sleek? Faaaaabulous? Tink always went for faaaaaabulous, herself, but if this girl liked that dress, all bets were off.

Re: Shop With Tink

[multiplez]

"I like the fabulous ones," Z said, "but I can't afford them. I mean, really, really. Can't afford them. Maybe the strappy ones?"

Re: Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

Oh, please, money. Money was such a stupid thing to trifle with when they were dealing with fashion, wasn't it? These were Roberto Cavalli shoes and they were just sitting here because so few people wore bright yellow and if she couldn't get this girl into a decent prom dress the least she could do was make sure she didn't go out there in crappy shoes. The dress had a slit that required show-off shoes. Besides, this was Tink's art project now, and they now had a zebra dress with fabulous shoes and see, this was progress!

They would figure something out, with the shoes. Take them. Now. Accessories!

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[multiplez]

Yay shoes! "Okay, accessories! Oh, but um, these shoes? Can I buy them, too? Not for prom, I don't need two pairs of shoes for prom, but...just to have?" Something about them...called to her.

Re: Shop With Tink

[tinkerbitch]

Of course! Shoe-shopping was always appropriate, and those were sort of fun. A little retro for her taste, but they made the yellow work, and that wasn't easy.

Oh, Tink loved shopping. Wasn't it ever so fun?

Re: Shop With Tink

[multiplez]

Shopping was really terrific. And, when done with Tink, kind of terrifying. "What kind of jewelry, do you think?"