On the right is the star, Hunter, in overdone makeup and enormous designer earrings, looking like a refugee from a Vogue fashion layout.
With their short skirts, heavy makeup and enormous towers of Aquanet-steadied hair, the Ronettes were New York's sassy, street-smart variation on the virginal girl-group model.
Everything about them was terrifying: their pimpled foreheads and red fingers, their blue uniforms, darkened under the arms, the boys' cracking voices and enormous feet, the girls' awkward makeup.
But, as I wait for her, I worry that there must be a dress code that I didn't know about, because every single woman but me is wearing skinny designer jeans, metallic heels, a sexy top, a full face of makeup and an enormous designer handbag, at 3pm on a sunny Saturday.
But the creative energy that it takes to put together a fully realized drag look, complete with intricate makeup and costuming is enormous.
But the creative energy that it takes to put together a fully realised drag look, complete with intricate makeup and costuming is enormous.
The culture clash can reach comical heights, as it did last June, when an enormous entourage of fashion editors, stylists, makeup artists and models, including Helena Christiansen and Shalom Harlow, traipsed out to Bedford-Stuyvesant for a shoot for French Vogue.
The cellar of another club was home to a reclusive old woman with an enormous wardrobe who emerged intermittently in full makeup and laden with jewelry to roam the block shrieking at passers-by.
It helps, of course, that her dramatic makeup is framed by an enormous mane of black curls.
The software permits mapmakers to analyze an enormous amount of data — party registration, voting patterns, ethnic makeup from census data, property-tax records, roads, railways, old district lines.
