Go Cocks!!!!

This was an exciting day.  For today I was taking off work early to do something I had never done, even in my 6 year stint at USC.  No…I wasn’t going to dance naked at a frat party while singing Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (I said something I had never done, remember?)  Oh no.  I had never, ever, in my life, tailgated for any football game.  Ever.  It was time. 

 

But first, I had to figure out what to wear.  I decided on this icky number for its Garnet hue.  Gotta show some school spirit to cheer on those Cocks.  Yep.  Cocks.  Our mascot is a Cock.  A fighting gamecock, to be precise. 

 

The color was right, but everything else about this huge dress was wrong.  Time to get to work!  This dress consists of 2 pieces.  The sheer part you see and a solid maroon slip.  First off, I hacked of the bottom of the sheer part. 

 

Next, I shortened the sleeves. 

 

Then I hemmed the bottom and the sleeves to get rid of those raw edges. 

 

Next, I needed to shorten the slip.  I decided to let it show from under the skirt to break up the whole polka-dot thing a bit. 

 

The straps on the slip were looooong as can be and needed to be shortened.  I snipped the straps shorter, and into the machine they went! 

 

I hemmed the raw edge around the bottom, and was done! 

I know what you’re thinking…”Isn’t she gonna take that in?  It’s huge on her!”  Nope.  All I had to do was use the ties built in on the sides, wrapping it around me a couple of times and making them look more like a sash.  I was ready to tailgate! 

 

I even used the leftovers from the slip to make a matching band for my fedora! 

 

Soooo…how was it?  AWESOME!!!! I don’t know WHY I had such a stick up my ass about tailgating/tailgaters in general!  Of course, it doesn’t hurt that I was in excellent company with the coolest refs in Columbia Roller Derby… 

 

 

 

 

 

I am now a tailgating convert! 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah…and the Gamecocks won against whoever it was they were playing.  🙂