I may be stressed and unhappy enough to think about quitting grad school...but hey...at least my new chiropractic regime is fun...
Those wings are cool as shit. They're affixed to a corset around the middle, so the weight (which is minimal anyway) is on my hips, they're durable as hell, and, to top it off, they're quick-change rigged. Two easy off hooks and pull up and they're off. Brilliant.
This is what happens when the designer is on top of things.
It also helps that I'm dressing this opera, and the woman who actually wears this bit is one of the nicest people I've ever met (which is really saying something for an operatic principle).
I'm clinging, desperately, to the good things.