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As I planned my outfit and planned my hat buying trip, my hair appointment came up. That appointment seems to pop up every four to six weeks. (Those ladies with gray hair who don’t want to know how much gray hair they really have will sympathize with my schedule with my hairdresser.)

Michael is my wonderful hairdresser. I must drive by at least 40 hair salons to get to Michael. He does a great cut, a decent style and then I usually just go home and re-style it a bit (like most women do) and then I’m happy. Michael keeps me entertained with all kinds of stories while I get my hair done and if I’m not feeling all that chatty he just gets down to business and doesn’t bug me. I like that.

This particular day I was sort of chatty so I was telling him of the beautiful British-style wedding that was coming up and how I found a dress on line, on sale, that I thought would work. I was waiting for it to arrive and see if would fit. Then I’d plan the rest of my outfit. Michael is always interested in style. I’m not a big shopper so it’s fun to listen to him regale about shopping. I generally dislike shopping altogether; especially for clothing. Send me out to buy glass art pieces and it’s a whole different ballgame. Clothes; not so much.

So I described the dress. He said, “It’s black, right? And you said you need to find a hat”. I confirmed that to be true. He came back with, “I might have a candidate for your hat”.

He went on to tell me how he had bought a beautiful black hat that was on OFF, OFF, OFF, OFF price at Neiman Marcus end of season sale. He loved the hat but had not found an occasion to wear it yet.

Okay so that might trip an alarm in your head. Michael wears women’s hats?

Yep.

Michael is a part-time drag queen. He performs at several venues all over the city. I went to see one of his performances and he’s great! He did several songs by various artists and wears outfits to match along with makeup and wigs. He’s a fairly big guy. He wears a size 10 ladies shoe but he struts around in those heels with more ease than many women. In the performance I saw he did an impression of Adelle that was killer! He had the perfect wig, the black signature dress and his mannerisms were so spot on you’d thing Adelle was in the room. Just don’t look too closely. But you don’t cuz he’s up on stage.

Michael described the hat and I went for it. He said I could borrow it, so I did.

I wasn’t sure it would be perfect so I backed myself up with a fascinator in case I chickened out in wearing the hat.

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