navy blue quince dress Puff Sleeve Quinceanera by Rachel Allan RQ3153 – ABC Fashion Corset Back Embellishment Special Order. Mini Quince Dress

It is among the favorites with its special design with gathers on the sleeves and its sweetheart neckline

He has again, generously lent me his chiseled mug and physique

Crafted in soft premium rayon spandex, it features a plunging V neckline with a peekaboo sheer mesh inset and flowing mesh godet inserts that create an ethereal, fluttering hem as you walk

As Freud wrote in his essay, The Uncanny, that experience of the uncanny double occurs when something that we have hitherto regarded as imaginary appears before us in reality, or when a symbol takes over the full functions of the thing it symbolizes. When animal flesh, that slab of meat we throw on the grill with nary a thought to its provenance, is rendered and re-contextualized as a female (and feminist) work of art, it becomes a multivalent symbol, of our own violence against women and animals, of transient flesh, of life and death

I know very little about the Kentucky Derby and it's not something I've ever paid much attention to, but my office Fun Committee does an annual derby party complete with hat contest, fried chicken, mint juleps, and betting on the horses in the race (to benefit the local animal shelter)