To music by Bach, Pergolesi and others, this swims between the Chevalier's 18th-century boudoir, the kabuki world of fans and kimono-draped geishas, and an Aubrey Beardsley-inflected interzone of trailing night-robes, billowing gowns and columns of golden light.
"We do owl prowls in the middle of the night, dressed in black hooded robes," Ms. Night said, giggling.
Walking around the Gathering, you'll see her in a wife-beater, but at night she wears long robes while working as a tarot reader in the Gathering's Bizzaro World tent.
She appeared in my doorway almost every night, holding her faded silk robe across her large breasts.
She began the night in an elegant silk robe, then took it off to reveal a rather sexy bodysuit coupled with knee-high boots.
"I would like to be Osama and I would like to raise my son in the footsteps of Osama!" exclaimed Ibrahim Jelazi, a 58-year-old shopkeeper walking through Salt on a chilly night in a flowing brown robe.
My mother was in the forefront of the original yoga wave in the 1970's, and she had introduced me to the world of sun salutations, saffron robes and Saturday-night "satsang," or study social, all before I was 13.
CHINANTLA, Mexico — Hundreds of villagers strolled through cobbled streets here the other night, bearing candles and small, robed statues of Joseph and Mary, arriving eventually at the home of Eva Vargas de Domínguez, a local matriarch, who invited the throngs into her patio for an evening of prayer and piñatas, fireworks and food.
And he learns that young Comanche gals like to "connubiate" under bearskin robes on long winter nights while their men are out raiding.
She stays awake all night wondering whether to wear royal robes or warrior's armor.
Undercover A grandmother in her early 50s said she had a white veil and black robe that she wore every night when she went to protest.
