'KlezNut' SNEAK PEEK *free* this Sunday 1-3 at Books of Wonder (NYC)

oh please oh please come and bring friends and kids and friends with kids - it's going to be quite an extravaganza, with:
* tons of cast members performing bits of the show
* a "Ballet Workshop" for the kids
* me reading & signing copies of The Golden Dreydl)
* . . . and ticket giveaways!

Wouldn't want to miss that, would we?
DETAILS HERE ON BoW page

My SFWA outfit at last night's Mill'n'Swill

Ellen Kushner in our smashing outfit
Originally uploaded by Ellen Datlow

Um, does this really work? It claims I can post this photo directly from Ellen Datlow's Flickr page to my LJ blog. Let's see, shall we....?
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I'll be damned. It works!

Oh, these blogging photos are the invention of the Devil. Just when we'd found a new medium that was all about words, they bring in the temptation to let a picture do the talking. Again. This crazy world.

ADDED IN RESPONSE TO COMMENTS: Aha! Well, that brought yez out of the woodwork! Here's the scoop: It is a suit of lightest wool, with a jacket/top that buttons up the front with lots of little buttons and yet is not annoying, and a skirt that is in the style known as a "kick pleat skirt." This fact given to me by eminent agent Richard Curtis, who actually kissed my hand when he saw me! When I asked him how he knew so much about ladies' style, he announced proudly that his father had been in the Schmatte Business (that's Yiddish for the Rag Trade, which is New Yorkese for working in the Garment District. Kapisch?). The silk is actually an inset? gore? and if you were insane or wanted not to move your legs much you could hook allllllll the little hook&eyes down to the bottom - or just release a few for a nice little effect. But I have them just where I want them, thank you.

Delia & I bought it some years ago (more than 5, less than 10?) at Looks in Cambridge (Mass.), down the street from our house. Looks is dangerous. And they know us. We walked in the door that day and they said, "Oh, good! We just got something great in, but you're the only ones it will fit." Yep. We decided to make it a Family Investment: divided by 2, it was just affordable. I've worn the jacket solo with jeans some, but not felt up to the skirt til now. For some reason, it works in NYC in a way it didn't in Boston....

Doing a little research online (see how I love you?) I discover that its mysterious label, Whistles, is actually a huge British line that has been called the U.K.'s answer to Anthropologie! Who knew? Seems to be an offshoot of Karen Millen. And there's lot of stuff on eBay - but unfortunately they will not mail it to the U.S. Anyone in UK want to fill us in (or act as a front)? Judging by what they're showing online now, their old stuff was better. My suit says "made in Poland" and is a marvel of construction: all finished seams in the same fabric as the skirt kick (!) . . . maybe this was pre-EU Poland?