Eliza Starbuck, Day 16
Chica Chica Boom Chic!
Today I was feeling rather tropical. Must have been the humidity, but when I walked into the grocery store and saw the pineapple, I knew I had found the best accessory of the day! If only it were a hat! And again, I’m reminded of the Patron Saint of Fabulous Over-the-Top Hats: Carmen Miranda. Here’s a little hat-montage of Carmen singing “Chica Chica Boom Chic”:
ie-yie-yie! She is amazing, and boy did she ever turn heads in those costumes!
So I must have looked quite a site myself, walking around with a giant pineapple in hand. Everyone who I walked by started to giggle, and me right with them, and one guy even said, “You look like the Chiquita Banana Girl!” Yup, that too would be Ms. Carmen Miranda.
I’m wearing a skirt I designed while at J.Crew, as a dress. I have a Jasper bead necklace around my neck, which makes me feel tranquil. My hoop earrings, I believe were my mothers when I was a child. And the wedge shoes I’ve had for years, also from my J.Crew years.
