I had read previously that the Sartorialist's opening reception for his exhibit in beautiful New York City had a line of fashionably dressed guys and gals going around an entire block; many of whom unfortunately didn’t get a chance to make indoors and see the exhibit. Subsequently, expecting a similar, albeit much more mild result with this being Washington D.C., I decided to show up early only to discover it was pouring rain outside as I left work and realizing I hadn’t brought with me the shoulder strap to my trusty Kenneth Cole - Reaction Portfolio case (I’ve had it for so long it’s worthy of the titular prefix “trusty”).
Luckily I arrived at Adamson Gallery right around the time the reception kicked off. Inside there was already a teeming mass of fashion lovers, Sartorialist blog readers and all points off chart and in between.
Interestingly, Betsy Lowther, of Fashion is Spinach blog fame was in tow but I didn’t get a chance to say “hi”, or rather go up and stutter nervously and tell her how great I think her blog is. (She wasn’t there for very long. I’m surprised at how tall she is in real life. Lord almighty, and I thought Em of DC Goodwill Fashions Blog was tall. Must be something in the water with these femme bloggers. I’m now highly curious to meet Johanna, and Rachel Cothran).
I must say, if you’ve read The Sartorialist’s blog, (or rather looked at the pictures as the word content tends to be sparse), you’ll find the pictures are even MORE of a treat to the eye to see in real life, although I will admit the ones on sale were smaller than I expected, especially as far as gallery fare is concerned.
What thrilled me even more than the photographs themselves was.The. Number.Of.People.Dressed.So.Amazingly.Well! (Local fashion bloggers take heart, this is particularly in reference to the A Serious Job is No Excuse blog’s raison d’être, and a recent entry on FIS).
Unfortunately, afraid at being seen to one up The Sartorialist himself (aka Scott Schumann) at his own event, that and I was unusually shy which is so extremely rare at these types of events that I wonder if hell is freezing over or if should check my positions to make sure I don’t end up eating my shorts tomorrow both literally (for the would be rogue speculator and financially inclined reading this blog there is a double entendre here) and figuratively, I was somewhat too timid to ask people if I could take their photographs.
However, being a true aesthete I regaled in and was in ecstasy surrounded by people who were in such good and tasteful clothing as opposed to the typical male or female wearing a suit with sneakers, typically indicative of local DC professionals heading to and fro work.Again I was uncharacteristically timid, but I did manage to get crowd shots and a literally a couple of posed shots after a group of friends asked me to take their picture with another attendee who was dressed fabulously well.
By the time they had yanked a second person from the crowd, handed me their portable point and shoot and asked me to snap a picture of them and their hostage / subject “cheesin’ it”, I said I would, but that I would snap a picture with my own camera.
Nonetheless, this was as far as I got into talking to people, save a gentleman who had lived on and off in Latvia. Unlike other major metropolitan cities, I found that initiating conversation here with the random folks is rather hard. Typical to my experience with many DC locals, initiating conversation is usually results in an effete and lukewarm “oh hey.”
Regardless, I was extremely pleased with the event.
For those inclined to see what The Sartorialist looks like here he is on the right.
I wonder where the bloggers were, aside from the aforementioned above.
It's way past my bed time, so I will continue editing this blog this weekend.
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