Dress code : Skinny Black Tie

Last Friday saw me running around Melbourne looking for a skinny black tie, a pair of graffittied Dunlop Volley's, a plastic sword and a mask a la Lucy Liu's henchmen in Kill Bill Volume 1. The reason being a 21st Birthday party that I was asked to by a close friend. Little did I know how hard it would be to find a skinny black tie in Melbourne. I was forced to look on Brunswick street, through the op shops and the vintage stores. No luck there either. In the end, I just borrowed a co-workers. Along my trip from the city to Brunswick Street, the tram I was travelling on passed the 2005 Melbourne International Flower Show. Something that hasn't sparked my interest in the past. But this year I knew I was going.

On Saturday night, it was all about the Flower Show at Twilight. Upon entering it was like a rave party for the elderly. People strewn across the gardens digging into stall food and catching their breath. It was amazing to see and to realise how hard people went at these shows. There were grandmothers pushing and shoving, trying their hardest to get a glimpse of Jamie Durie (not that hot, really) and trying to take a visual snippet of what was the next big thing in garden landscaping.

The pinnacle of the evening was the light show in the central garden area, where a dance troup were elevated high in large white balls on tall flexible stilt like devices which allowed them to sway from side to side. Lights were shone onto the white balls while the dancers were inside to create an interesting ambience in the area. Slowly the dancers emerged from the balls. It was quite spectacular. The musical choices were brilliant. Taking me back to the days of RMIT Union Art shows such as "Meat Market" and "Drown".



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