I know, when people have made the pilgrimage to PP they try to outdo each other on their documentation of it all. Every second described to the "inth" degree on what they saw, and what it all felt like. I am more of a (pun) short-story person.

This is one of the moments I wanted to share. They have his beautiful teal-color suit that he wore during the Superbowl performance in the rain. I like to really study an object like that, so see if I can pull from it more than the obvious or innane. It was in a big case behind glass (like so many of his things are there) and after about 5 minutes I started to laugh to myself.

There, at the bottom of those belled trousers are one heck of a pants hem. Now since I am short & have to buy my clothes "off the rack", I have had to hem about every pair of pants I have ever worn. They finally started making petite/short pants later on, but that is besides the point. Didn't he have fabulous people hand-making his clothes for him? Knowing his exact size, why the big honker of a pantleg hem? A huge hem makes them heavier on the bottom and they don't really hang right or look that good. You can't get it done right sometimes even when you are rich & famous, I guess.

Made me feel closer to him, in a way. That, and those size 5 1/2 boots with heels that I couldn't even get my feet in- and I got tiny feet!

I wonder if the large hem, made the bell bottoms stronger to keep them in place more and not so flimsey?

I often wonder how much each outfit cost him. And the beautiful shoes.

Seahorsie said:

Seahorsie said:

I know, when people have made the pilgrimage to PP they try to outdo each other on their documentation of it all. Every second described to the "inth" degree on what they saw, and what it all felt like. I am more of a (pun) short-story person.

This is one of the moments I wanted to share. They have his beautiful teal-color suit that he wore during the Superbowl performance in the rain. I like to really study an object like that, so see if I can pull from it more than the obvious or innane. It was in a big case behind glass (like so many of his things are there) and after about 5 minutes I started to laugh to myself.

There, at the bottom of those belled trousers are one heck of a pants hem. Now since I am short & have to buy my clothes "off the rack", I have had to hem about every pair of pants I have ever worn. They finally started making petite/short pants later on, but that is besides the point. Didn't he have fabulous people hand-making his clothes for him? Knowing his exact size, why the big honker of a pantleg hem? A huge hem makes them heavier on the bottom and they don't really hang right or look that good. You can't get it done right sometimes even when you are rich & famous, I guess.

Made me feel closer to him, in a way. That, and those size 5 1/2 boots with heels that I couldn't even get my feet in- and I got tiny feet!

I found a picture of that Hem Seahorsie..

Yes..its mighty long...

but having worked with Tailors a lot I can tell you its not unuual for suit pants to have long hems.

It afectively adds weight to the bottom of the pants and helps them drape better...

Being such an energetic performer he would have needed that extra to help keep them down.

Imagine how pissed he would have been if they got stuck on the top of his boots..

I recall Stacia Lang saying that he would always check to see that this didnt happen

and in some of his more fluid Lycra outfits she would have to add invisible sturrups to the inside..

so................depending on the Fabric ....keeping the bottoms DOWN was apparently an issue..

..also long hemmed

and this one too..

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He was always so impeccably dressed, even in the pouring rain.

Interesting... That reminds me of a story told by a girl I met working in a coat check room at a club in San Francisco. I told her how I saw Prince's last performance there and she one upped me by saying not only was she there but she met Prince! Apparently, she is a clothing designer and she was called in for a "fashion emergency" by staffers right before Prince was to go on stage. Prince wanted someone to add lace to his outfit and his regular person wasn't available so this lady was called in. She told him that what he wanted couldn't be done in that amount of time so she made an alternative suggestion. She said she expected a negative reaction from what she had heard about Prince but, instead, he thought about it for a moment and then told her she had a great idea and told her to go ahead and do it her way. She said he was very polite, soft spoken, and not at all intimidating. So, she put the lace on his outfit and sent him off to give a great performance in style.

PennyPurple said:

He was always so impeccably dressed, even in the pouring rain.

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Oh please, dude wore t-shirts with butt-ugly amateurish artwork plenty of times.

BartVanHemelen said:

PennyPurple said:

He was always so impeccably dressed, even in the pouring rain.

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Oh please, dude wore t-shirts with butt-ugly amateurish artwork plenty of times.

I pity you Bart.