Posted on April 23, 2010 at 8:56 pm

Spiderman Costumes Just take your pick.

Not long ago, a woman from Brooklyn named Shavonne wanted a catsuit to wear to a costume party. She went to Trash and Vaudeville, a clothing store in the East Village, and spoke to Jimmy Webb, a salesman. "I don’t have spiderman costumes," Webb told her. &quot,zentai suit;No one’s the same across the shoulders and chest," he said, tracing the wings of her collarbone with his finger. "spider costume s have to fit perfectly, and they’re expensive." Webb is also the store’s buyer. "If I buy six," he said, "I can only sell one." Shavonne was disappointed. "Here’s what you do," Webb told her. "You go to Capezio, on Broadway, and buy a unitard. You know what a unitard is?" She shook her head. "A full-body leotard,&quot,Spiderman Costumes; Webb said. "They stretch to fit. You’ll look great." She thanked him and left.
"Did you know I went to hairdressing school?" Webb asked me. I said I didn’t. "I’m a beauty-school dropout, three times," he said. "Really, I’m more the kind of person to have my hair dressed than to dress other people’s. They told me I was inappropriately attired. I caused too much of a stir."
I asked how.
"Wearing a unitard," he said. "It was a leftover one year from when I was a quaalude on Halloween. A Rorer 714, the original quaalude. I was bone-thin back then, twenty pounds lighter than now. I got a solid-white unitard. I wore solid white, cheap, Thirty-fourth Street, high-heeled boots, and I had a little Puerto Rican woman bleach my hair with old-school wig peroxide. I must have looked like a Q-tip, but in a good way. I wrote ‘Rorer 714′ on the front. Years later, when people are looking for costume spiderman that are expensive and don’t fit, I know where a unitard is."

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