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NAKED (for later)

Let’s get down to it. NAKED, that is. The first show in our new Story Story Late-Night series, the black sheep in the Story Story Night family.

Photographer: Bethany Walter

Positively shameless, Story Story Late-Night goes there. With raw and real stories on an unblushing theme. Told live on stage at the stunning Visual Arts Collective in Garden City. Without notes or inhibitions.

Story Story Late-Night logo design by Neighborhood All-Stars. Sign printing from Fast Signs.

Photographer: Bethany Walter

Late as usual, I found this captivating dress at the very last minute. On Sunday actually, the day before our Monday show, at the Idaho Youth Ranch on Orchard. I’m in Albuquerque at the moment, and Dan has not yet pulled the dress off the floor in Boise to identify the label, but I remember it is a 1980’s Dynasty era brand, and 100% silk baby ($3.75). You know my fetish by now.

Photographer: Bethany Walter

The dress is a luscious thick silk weave with six double-breasted buttons down the front, and an unending open-front collar down the same. To me, it looks like a men’s dressing gown, tailored to perfection for a woman just my style. After all, my favorite way to invoke subtly slutty is to play up my two scoops of vanilla bust-line. Mission accomplished, gown. NAKED, all the way baby.

Bandolino blue leather and velvet pumps: $19 (Ross Dress for Less). Red velvet and carved wood throne chair: $49 (The Bench Commission).

Photographer: Bethany Walter

The jewelry makes the outfit such an enchanted evening. The Green carnelian and silver ring is new (to me) from Armor Bijoux ($180). Soul perfection. The Antique Afganistani silver and glass necklace is also from Armor Bijoux ($$$).

The Gold grape bunch clip was a gift from Anna D and her manfriend, from his grandmother’s vintage costume jewelry collection. I love the naked grape leaf symbology. I was planning on having a wardrobe malfunction to show off the awesome bra underneath, another gift from Anna D. Oh it happened, just not on stage.

Thanks Anna D. for all of your work making Story Story Late-Night a concept, then a reality.

Photographer: Whitney Rearick

And, though blessedly not the host this time (stunning Emma Arnold expertly had that covered), I did get 5 minutes on stage because my name was drawn, by random chance, Dan swears. (And then I subsequently did.) I was so excited, I got to tell a strange and hilarious in flagrante Stanley story that also involves Dan Costello and indiscretion. For telling it, I won a pair of fishnet panties from Under 19/Pleasure Boutique, one of our prize sponsors.

Maybe someday I’ll tell you the story too, but you kind of had to be there.

Photographer: Whitney Rearick

This man is a rock star, naked and otherwise.

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