Beach Blanket Babylon

No – not the rather hip and trendy bar in Nottinghill (although it is the official venue of London Fashion Week 18–22 September – so quite cool really),

but Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, the longest running musical revue in theatre history! It’s a zany musical spoof of pop culture with extravagant costumes and outrageously huge hats.

A resounding ‘Ahhhhhhhh, that’s what she’s trying to get at!’ I hear you cry. Well yes, if you think of Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, you are halfway there!

The reason I’m whittering on about crazy type of hats is that I was asked if I could make three pieces for the ‘Seaside Sisters’ who are attending London Summer Craftacular on 22 August 2009.

The brief they gave me was,‘We are going for a retro seaside look’ and later ‘We’re making pinnies and sailor scarves and we might even have Seaside Sisters tattoos!’~

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