Anyone know why a chef's hat goes up so high? I mean, when you put one on, they seem absurd. REALLY ABSURD. You know? When you first put one on.
Ever put on a fencing jacket? Maybe not quite ABSURD, but they do feel a little...uhm... WEIRD...
truly...they do....at least the one I wore...
thick material... tightly woven... starched... or maybe "sealed" with something that closed the weave on it...
really stiff... you pulled it on and it almost bent your spine into a fencing stance whether you wanted to stand like that or not... lemme explain this better... thin, tight waist... back pulled into a curve, with your upper back pulled back but curved forward too...(difficult to explain that)... but the curvature of the spine is exaggerated... pulls your neck back...alters your center of balance so that your body has to rely on your lower back and legs to carry the action...
and the collar was high and scraped your throat right under your chin...
and... being a woman's jacket... the front of you felt sort of "armor-plated"...
the jackets actually make you feel a bit "invincible" as soon as you pull one on... which is very odd because they aren't really very heavy... in fact, not at all....
makes you feel really different when you're wearing one... sort of... stiff... formal...and, I dunno... old-fashioned... chivalrous or something... like maybe you are ready to spring into action at any second to defend someone... throw down a gauntlet just so you can get to work and poke at someone with a foil.
strange... I'm not generally the combative type... but those jackets...gee... they can exert some kind of mind control over you... almost like being "possessed"...
yah..."possessed" by the ghost of Errol Flynn...
or maybe it's just because they are so stiff and weird that it makes you start feeling angry after about 2 minutes of wearing one,...sort of like being locked in a closet by some practical joker... You know what I mean? Yep... there you are, standing there for a couple of minutes saying good-naturedly... "O.K., open the door now.. lemme out"... But then nobody does, and after 2 more minutes it isn't amusing any more and you feel like kicking down the door and booting the twit right in the ass....
Well, fencing jackets work the same way... for sure... You put them on and feel good-natured... sort of elegant...for about 2 minutes... then after 2 minutes, you just feel like kicking ass.... needing some "direction" to strike out towards because of the straight-jacket locked-in-the-closet feel of the jacket... yep.... think that's what it is....
...or else it's just me... more combative than I thought I was...
nah...it's the jacket that does it...
oh yah... and one other thing about them... They make you feel like you can leap differently... Sort of like "boink"... all of a sudden your body can do stuff it never did before... like sort of "boink" forward... stiff-legged little leaps... like a goat or a deer... "boink-boink-boink"... across the floor... It's actually kind of cool...but weird... Can't explain it... Go put on a fencing jacket and see what I mean... seriously... |
