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Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman
You guys know by now that I love a story....
Well, the young naked dancer appears to have swapped her harem pants (that is her dancing fully dressed, earlier in the parade) for some beads with the stilt walker (he is holding them in that photo), so is the shot by the clothes rail her undressing to go dancing or dressing after she got her pants back (they are on the ground near the rail) from 'stilty' and the fun was over?
What do you think, has all this detective stuff gone to my head.......or is the dream of her chasing naked (or bottomless) after a guy on stilts the result of me eating too much cheese before bedtime! Whatever, I just think she looks a lot of fun to be around!
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Pedro et al.: It's probably two unrelated things, and a little hard to tell since "the shot by the clothes rail" is not from the same set as the other two and doesn't have a time stamp in its exif, but based on how the parade and fair play out, here's my mix of fact and speculation. First, the woman dresses in harem pants and top and goes to Fremont; at 12:32 pm, about 1/2 hour after the official parade starts, but after the bikes have come through, an early parade participant is the stilt guy. As many men once only did for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but now people for any excuse (Kentucky Derby, Fremont, etc., or just going to a party and hoping for the best) will do, he had stocked up on a bunch of bead necklaces and had them around his neck. When I referred in that earlier post to "earning your beads," I meant that at Mardi Gras a tradition started: I'll throw you beads if you flash me. Well, she got naked and walked up to him, he reached down and gave her the beads, she put them on and walked back out of the street. At almost 1:28 pm, there she is dancing in the parade; whether that was equally spontaneous or she was already part of a group I can't tell from the picture, but looking at the original picture set's sequence might help clarify. During and after the parade there is a street fair in side streets off the parade route, and in an alley between the parade route street and the street fair proper (for which you need to be officially approved to have a booth), a small business had set up a "sidewalk" sale of their own, with a bunch of clothes on offer. Liking the look of something, our heroine decides to try it on and voila, there she is, doing that with as much inhibition as she earlier (that day, and also a couple of years earlier, based on that other photo) showed getting beads. Whether this picture was before or after trying the garment on we also can't say without THAT sequence of pictures to look at, and I've only ever seen that one alone. So there you have it! Crispus