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Slide of the Week: July 13th, 2007
Bal Masque, Fullerton CA, 1968
Is this what happens when you watch one too many episodes of H&R Puff ‘n Stuff? And I want to know how this human piñata is going to find her way around the ballroom. She can barely see with one eye through those big juicy red lips. Her husband is going to have to lead her around all night by that wrap around stem. And isn’t this woman with the wrong man? Shouldn’t she be with Jack, from Jack-in-the-Box? They would make a perfect couple.
Fullerton’s annual Ball Masque was a spectacular headdress completion that began in 1962 and continued until I don’t know when. Do you? Sometime in the 90s I think.
Anyway, the city’s high society ladies would spend an evening each year parading around a hotel ballroom balancing a giant arts and crafts project on their head. How wonderful is that! To the powers that be in Fullerton… please bring headdress ball back!
Speaking of arts and crafts this Sunday I’m honored to host Felt Club, an arts and crafts show-and-tell-and-do extravaganza in Los Angeles at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. If you want your imagination to be inspired and your spirit to soar come on by. I guarantee it will happen. Click here for more information!
Here’s to Miss Daisyhead, the Bal Masque, Fullerton, Felt Club and YOU!
Charles Phoenix
Los Angeles
July 2007
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July 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Oooooh! That’s swell! I live in Fullerton and will try to get this shindig up and running again, Charles. hehe
I’ll have to ask my mom if she remembers the Ball Masque. My parents moved here in 1960 - but they weren’t high society.
July 13th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
just think charles - if you were invited, you could turn the astro weenie tree idea into a gigantic headress… lovely AND practical !!!