crystal.

[elegiaque]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Gwenaëlle Baudin
RECIPIENT: You lot.

( this might be the soonest that she's ever begun a crystal message for the gallows after having done one within a month or so. gwenaëlle's voice, again, briskly businesslike: )

Before we all fuck off to parts unknown, if you're within a few inches of my height and happen to wear mostly or ever dresses, and you're in need of something suitable to wear out in the cities, I am clearing a great deal of my old wardrobe. I can help with on the spot alterations, but anything that's going to need to be properly taken apart for you will obviously have to wait.

If you don't need a dress to look presentable in Nevarra City and you just want to rifle through my old clothes for something you might like, that's also fine. I'm doing my prep before we leave, and if I'm not on the boat, Guilfoyle will be. He's a dab hand with a needle.

( on the boat, a profusion of mostly creamy, neutral fabrics have taken over the gallery that opens out from her entrance hall: sorted loosely by styles, fabrics, colours, patterns, the cushions that usually occupy the space shunted into a corner, some dresses that need hanging put up over the top of the art that hangs between the wide windows. there are shoes, some placed with the dresses they were bought to match, others just lined up along the narrow walkaway that rings the room around the conversation pit; several grand hats, a few cloaks and coats.

some of it will be familiar, if you've been here for long enough, but she suspects most of the probable handful people who might be interested won't have been; will not recognise her in the things she is giving away. )

Comments

[youwonscience]

If other people have more of a need, it's not urgent, but I might take a look at some of the extra fabric if you don't mind. Even if I'm mostly working from the Gallows, I'll probably be taking some meetings now and then with people who expect more of a nod to local standards than a chance to say "wow, I met an exotic rifter." [The latter of which she's been actively capitalizing on for years. Still, other than her boots, the things she arrived in are starting to wear out and her day-to-day wear is more practical Thedosian these days.]

[elegiaque]

I really don't think it's going to be an issue of not having enough to go around, ( is ruefully self-aware. ) If there's fabric in the dresses you like, too, I don't mind taking them apart and giving you the parts.

[youwonscience]

Thanks, I may take you up on that. I know how to handle mending, but actual garment construction or deconstruction seems better left to people who know what they're doing.

Also, all of us who've been here at any length know it's definitely only a matter of time before we end up invited to another fancy party, so may as well prepare a little.

[elegiaque]

They're surprisingly difficult to avoid if you haven't recently done terrorism.

[youwonscience]

[If they were closer, she might have made the and even then joke that's on the tip of her tongue, but she's not sure if Gwenaëlle would take it in the spirit she means it. Instead:]

Tony definitely had more home-world experience with fancy parties than I do, but I feel like at least I've been in Thedas long enough not to actively embarrass anyone. I'll appreciate the wardrobe boost, though.