#catch as caftan

[idrinkyouryouthquake]

Suzie's outfit being insane

[lizzybeth1986]

Laylat al-Henna

Book: The Royal Romance

Rating: PG

Pairing: Kiara Theron x Hana Lee

Word Count: 1, 882 words

Summary: It's the night before Kiara and Hana's wedding! What fun things do Kiara's cousins from Fes have in store for their henna night?

A/N: You'll find details and visuals on the fashion and henna designs (as well as faceclaims for the OCs!) in this post.

Tagging @kiaratheronappreciationweek for KTAW Day 1: Culture, @choicesficwriterscreations for FoTW/LGBTQ Archive, @choicespride as well even though it may be a bit early for the pride event.

It is tradition - Kiara has been told over and over, wedding after wedding, from the time she was twelve - for a woman to have her bridegroom's name hidden in the designs of her henna.

Their families back in Fes would make a game of it on their wedding night; the groom could touch his bride only when he found his name, tiny and dark and perfect - leaving the most beautiful stain on her palms.

At least four (well...three, really) of those cousins had giggled over how it all went down at their own wedding nights. Nour's henna had her husband's name written in extremely small print, squirreled away among a row of curls. Imane's flowed along the curves of a large, floral paisley. Nissrine's husband was rumoured to have taken hours searching for his name in her henna and poor Fatimazahra's collapsed into an eight-hour slumber before he could even truly try.

All four of them laughed even harder when they were told that Kiara would be marrying a woman.

At first Kiara assumed it had to be the fun of celebrating two brides rather than just one. Double the joy, double the dancing, double the bridal henna!

Should've known better, Kiara mutters to herself as her eyes search frantically for telltale signs of calligraphy along the darkened vines on Hana's palm.

She almost lets out a triumphant yell when she catches a lovingly inscribed kaaf, deceptively mirroring the vines. That's before she realises the other four letters are scattered in Arabic all over Hana's palm.

Kiara purses her lips, immensely annoyed. Why did she think this to be so romantic in the first place?

"Oh!" Hana whispers in delight, "Look! I've found mine." Her finger lightly traces the soft skin underneath Kiara's little finger, caressing the spot where her own name is inscribed, in Mandarin....as a whole word. Her eyes sparkle in childlike glee.

Kiara manages to catche an alif peeking out from behind a flower on the soft skin just below Hana's thumb. She lets out a small huff of laughter, shaking her head.

Perhaps she should thank every deity of every faith that her parents' gave her a name as short as Kiara. Imagine her plight if it had been as long as Fatimazahra's, zut alors.

"My darling cousins," she says, her eyes still roaming over Hana's palms. Now...now she understands all those hearty cackles Nour seemed to be making, at the idea of arranging a henna party for two women. "Elles me conduiront à ma tombe!"

--

Every woman at the henna party in Castelserraillan that night shared very knowing grins as Kiara and Hana entered - completely blissed out, skin dewy and aglow, a mixture of a french lavender scent and the earthy aroma of ghassoul clay emanating from their bodies.

They'd been brought into the hall like princesses of old, carried in jewelled palanquins, dressed in caftans and takchitas whose golden threads reflected the soft light of the hall, the candles that seemed to receive their own henna treatment in tones of pink, purple and rose gold, and their light glowed softly in trays of pure gold.

Having experienced the joys of the pre-henna night hammam baths themselves, most of Kiara's aunts and cousins could tell how good the treatments must have been within the first ten minutes of a bride entering the ceremony.

Beneath her golden veil, Kiara's eyes roamed around the hall, in awe of the sheer love and detail that must have gone into planning this party alone. Both women being daughters to a multitude of cultures meant that Kiara and Hana had to pay their respects to several of their homes - Bethulia. Castelserraillan. Udvada. Orleans. Fes. Shanghai. Cordonia. - in different ceremonies, and include a multitude of relatives.

Which meant that Kiara's aunts and cousins knew this night was their moment to shine.

Hana was whisked to another corner of the room before Kiara could even get a chance to speak to her - a bevy of ladies already surrounding her to fulfill requests, give her mint tea, admire the henna's artist's craft or just for a small chat. Anything and everything Hana wanted. Tonight (and this was exactly how Kiara wanted it) Hana was going to be treated like a queen.

From under her lashes, Kiara sneaked a look at Hana. The woman she would call her wife tomorrow. Listening, nodding, her silken brown hair catching the glow of the lights as she threw her head back at a joke her aunt Hala said.

"If you stare any harder you'll bore a hole in the wall behind her," Nissrine came to her, grinning as she followed Kiara's gaze. She looked around the hall, slightly doubtful. "How did we do?"

Kiara laughed, placing her free hand on her cousin's arm, reassuring her with the word they would all use to describe something as beautiful. "Zwina."

Fatimazahra - who had been minding the caterers this whole time - seemed to appear out of nowhere, chukling. "Tomorrow is her wedding night. Of course everything will be zwina. The macroute will be zwina, her henna will be zwina, her wife will be the most zwina."

Kiara moved her gaze from Hana to her own palms, admiring the naqasha's speed and precision. The henna felt cool on her left palm, the designs on her arms already beginning to dry a little and the paste itself smelling pleasant and earthy - the way real henna should.

The naqasha - an experienced henna artist from their hometown whose team had become popular among the family circles for their vast knowledge of different henna styles (Indian, Pakistani, Khaleeji, Fassi, Marrakechi, Meknessi, Saharawi - you name it) - had finished making a beautiful dome at the centre of Kiara's palm, and was now referring to a tiny piece of paper Imane seemed to have given her before carefully writing out Méihuā - the name Hana's paternal family often used for her - in Hànzì script.

Kiara smiles mistily as she watches Soraya, the naqasha, labour over each character of the script, making sure she never got a single line or slant wrong. Hana often told her that that name reminded her of happier times, far more than her own birth name did. It meant plum blossom - the flower that grew fragrant and resilient in the snow, China's national flower. Her Năinai's favourite flower.

And over the past year...she'd begun to answer to it a little more too.

Kiara mouthed a silent "thank you" to Imane as she sauntered to her side, looking very pleased with herself.

"Wonderful work, Soraya," she patted the naqasha lightly on her shoulder, "What oils did you add in the henna paste this time?"

"Tea tree, geranium and lavender," Soraya said, smiling, "She can hold her hands in front of some herbal incense later. A lovely rich colour and the scent will be incredible."

"Ohhh...what a deep stain it'll leave behind when the henna comes off!" Imane looked back at Kiara, winking. "Remember what our aunts used to tell us, Kiara? The darker the stain of the henna, the deeper the essence of his love. Or her's, in this case."

Kiara was grateful for her golden veil as heat creeped up her neck. Maman loved that adage, ever since her own wedding where - if Kiara's aunts were to be believed - her henna deepened to a dark, rich brown without even holding her hands to a brazier like everyone else did.

Kiara always liked to call herself a practical woman. But this didn't stop her from dreaming of showing Hana her palms, rich and deep brown from both henna and their love.

"Is Hana liking her designs?" Kiara asked Imane.

"Iyyeh," Imane nodded. "Soraya's girls have really outdone themselves. Indian designs are usually very elaborate, but Hana wanted something simple, a little floral."

She gave Kiara a wolfish grin, a mischievous twinkle in her eye. "I think you're going to love it."

Kiara narrowed her eyes at Imane. She knew that look. It was the kind she would give all her cousins when, as children, she was about to do skin her knees climbing the branches of a fig tree.

Kiara was going to open her mouth to ask what Imane had in mind, when the low, deep strains of the guembri rang throughout the room.

It was Nissrine's younger sister Nour, closing her eyes in reverence and plucking the strings of the family guembri - a legacy from her father, a renowned Gnawa master himself. The guembri had been in the family for generations, itself decorated with henna patterns so intricate it would amaze even the best of naqashas.

As the women in her family got up to dance to "Toura Toura", a song Kiara would listen to and relish in 12 hour lilas every year in Fes (singing in Bambara - a language neither she nor her cousins truly understood but loved to hear), she found herself somehow dancing next to the woman she had been craving to see for the last few hours.

"Well, hello there," Kiara said, sneaking a kiss to Hana's cheek.

Hana giggled. "Fancy running into you."

They danced until their feet were sore, until their eyes begged for sleep, until their henna dried - leaving behind a stain that was a deep, dark, rich brown.

--

"They did that on purpose!" Kiara huffs, ten minutes after she has triumphantly shown Hana the final letter - the rāy curling at the base of her wrist. "They were planning to annoy and vex me this entire time. If they were here right now I'd tell them to go cook themselves an egg."

For all her grumbling, however, Kiara was quite overjoyed. She had hoped that her extended family in Fes would adore Hana just as much as she did, that they would love her and pamper her silly. They went above and beyond; they made Hana's first real experience of Morocco practically unforgettable.

It was. In every sense of the word. Even if that involved secretly pulling Kiara's leg.

Hana pouts, her fingers still tracing the name on Kiara's palm. "I wish they scattered letters for me too. Seems like more of a challenge." She shifts a little more into Kiara's arms, turning her gaze to her own palms. "Not that I don't love your henna already. It's gorgeous; look at these curls in the center! They remind me of a compass rose."

Hana runs her fingers purposefully along the length of Kiara's body. She presses five tiny kisses along her face.

"A kiss for each letter," she hums happily against Kiara's skin, "A just reward for your hard work."

Laughter bubbles in Kiara's throat. "Only five?"

"Kiara Yasmine Thorne," Hana's voice takes on a raspy, sultry quality, "Don't be greedy."

"Ma moitie," she whispers back, "I believe tonight's the one night when greed is allowed."

Hana bites her lower lip to stem her own laughter, then lets her lips roam free over Kiara's face.

"Fine, then," Hana huffs in mock-petulance, only too happy to go along with the joke, "Eighteen kisses it is."

Kiara buries her hands in Hana's hair as she breathes in the fragrance from between her shoulder and neck. "I won't mind if you give me more...but alright. Eighteen's a start."

Translation -

Darija:

Kaaf (ك), yaa (ي), alif (ا)(twice), rāy (ر) are the isolated letters that - I think - will form Kiara's name in Arabic. I believe that it may look somewhat like this (كيارا) when written as one word, but the letters are meant to be scattered around Hana's henna just to tease Kiara.

Ghassoul/Rhassoul clay - a type of clay that some people use as a cosmetic product for their skin and hair. It’s a brown clay only found in a valley in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. The term “rhassoul” comes from an Arabic word that means “to wash.” Typically used in hammam baths.

Zwina - a compliment, literal meaning is beautiful or good.

Macroute - a diamond shaped sweet cookie filled with dates and nuts or almond paste.

Naqasha - Henna artist

Guembri - a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people

Lila - a rich ceremony in the Gnawa community, of song, music, dance, costume, and incense that takes place over the course of an entire night, ending around dawn. Learn more here.

Toura Toura - Popular Gnawa song. Here is a version by Innov Gnawa.

French:

zut alors - an expression of annoyance, like saying "darn!" or "damn!", mostly used in non-serious instances.

Elles me conduiront à ma tombe! - They will lead me to my grave!

Va te faire cuire un œuf! - Literally, "go cook yourself an egg!". An expression of annoyance, similar to "go take a hike!" or "leave me alone!"

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LADY GAGA PERFORMS AT NEMACOLIN SUMMER SOLSTICE

In honor of the grand reopening of their Chateau, Pennsylvania-based resort Nemacolin hosted a Summer Solstice event for three days and invited a variety of superstars such as Lionel Richie, Jimmy Fallon and, of course, Lady Gaga!

The first look of her jazz set was this stunning full Ralph Lauren ensemble which included the Spring/Summer 2024 Braydon copper metallic mesh with tonal, light-catching crystals and high knot neckline ($8,000).

"My Spring 2024 women’s collection is about a new kind of romance—cool and sophisticated. It’s about the freedom of creating a personal style through the artistry of faded denims and painterly florals, the modern sophistication of timeless icons reimagined in black and gold, or the eclectic mix of bold colors, shine, and luxurious handcrafted details. These are the stories of the woman I design for, whose individuality and artistic spirit are a canvas for her own self-expression." Ralph said.

She also wore a custom long stole version of the Fall/Winter 2012 hand-painted black and metallic gold marabou shawl.

Gaga's look was completed with another custom plummet showgirl awe by Arturo Rios...

...and her beloved Jimmy Choo Anouk pumps in black patent leather.

This outfit intrigued and surprised me both at the same time.

When it comes to fringe mini dresses of the same silhouette, she usually goes to Adrián Manceras. But last night, she chose to dig into the archives of Naeem Khan and pull out this Fall/Winter 2020 sunset-inspired awe.

Tonal gold accessories completed the look! The stunning metallic mottled palm leaf fascinator is signed by Aimee Fuller Millinery...

...while the metallic Anouk pumps are by, you knew it already, Jimmy Choo!

This look, as you already know, is total Giorgio Armani which comprises this plush black velvet strapless bustier column dress with crystal band embellishment ($4,777) and the Fall/Winter 2018 Privé Haute Couture pink ostrich coque feather coat.

Her new pale pink Julia veiled fascinator (��395) is from Carrie Jenkinson Millinery's Spring/Summer 2024 collection...

… and the Melissa opera-length black velvet gloves (£160) are by Cornelia James.

It‘s Michael Costello‘s world and we‘re just living in it! His third custom dress for our girl this week is this uuuuuultra sexy black satin number with one-shoulder caftan silhouette, trimmed with luxurious ostrich feathers by Mother Plucker Feather Company and featuring beaded appliqués on the shoulder and waist.

It was finished off with this vintage Philip Treacy 1996 black feather firework headpiece which has already been previously worn by Gaga back in London in 2015!

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Recently watched: Night Watch (1973). Tagline: “You’ll be seeing this nightmare every night for the rest of your life.” If you enjoy observing Elizabeth Taylor suffer heavy emotional torment (in particular, watching her stare out a window and shrieking), THIS is the film for you! In this wildly entertaining Gaslight-style woman-in-peril psychodrama (adapted from a stage play by Lucille Fletcher – author of Sorry, Wrong Number), the screen diva screams and screams again. And then screams some more just for good measure. Taylor stars as troubled woman-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown Ellen Wheeler. Ellen seemingly has it all: an affluent lifestyle. A sumptuous house in a posh part of London (possibly Bayswater?). A spectacular glitzy wardrobe by Valentino (Taylor by this point is already deep in her “caftan era”. Night Watch is worth catching just for her costume changes). A Spanish maid called Dolores to order around (“I want dinner ready for nine o’clock. Not eight o’clock. Not ten o’clock. Nine o’clock!”). And she’s doted on by her loving financier husband John and best friend Sarah (Billie Whitelaw). (John is played by Laurence Harvey, Taylor’s suave leading man from Butterfield 8 (1960). The posters for Night Watch should have exclaimed “Taylor and Harvey – Together Again!” Harvey died of cancer (aged just 45) shortly after the film’s release. He does look noticeably gaunt). But the emotionally fragile Ellen is tortured by insomnia and nightmares about the death of her first husband (and his mistress) eight years earlier in a horrific car crash. When she thinks she’s witnessed a murder in the supposedly deserted house next door (shades of Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954)), Ellen really begins to crack up … Director Brian G Hutton had already collaborated with Taylor in the fun oddball melodrama X Y & Zee (1972). Night Watch is awash in 1970s decadence (everyone smokes, drinks and pops pills). Towards the end, there is a genuinely shocking eruption of violence straight out of a slasher flick!

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: The Blue Caftan (2022)

A very recent movie, so if you are lucky, you might still catch it in a cinema. (Time stamp: March 2023)

(From left to right: Youssef, Mina and Halim, eating together.)

The Blue Caftan is telling the story of a married couple who run a traditional tailor shop in Morocco. The husband, Halim, is gay. At the beginning of the movie, he starts to make a blue caftan for a rich client. Over the time it takes for him to finish, we get to watch the developing feelings between him and his young apprentice, Youssef, as well as the progression of the wife’s, Mina’s, terminal breast cancer.

While the summary does sound a little bleak, this movie is so full of love and tenderness, it seriously softens the pain to something beautiful. While it is made very clear through the acting that Halim is not sexually attracted to his wife, his and Mina’s relationship is very deep and loving. Mina does show some animosity towards Youssef at the beginning, but as her illness progresses, she comes to accept and even appreciate him, so it really is three people who care deeply about one another up against Life. There is also a lot of nonsexual intimacy going on, mostly between Halim and Mina, but also between Halim and Youssef. All in all, it is a very soft, tender movie, that still deals with some very heavy topics.

The Blue Caftan premiered 2022 in Cannes, won multiple prizes at film festivals, and is Morocco’s official submission at the 2023 Oscars shortlist in the "International Feature Film" category. 

I can’t really link much about it, but here is the IMBD page.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

[lukore]

In the train, sitting around me, there are: (1) a woman traveling alone, with a German accent (Alsatian? Swiss?), has a pony tail with a scarf tied around it; she tries to catch my eye, orders a meal tray when I do, doesn’t order anything to drink, then asks for carbonated water, ice, etc.; she is reading Rif, terre de légendes (2) w black Moroccan woman with pimples; she’s wearing a burgundy caftan, buckled shoes; she’s holding a curly-haired baby in her arms (3) a modestly dressed pied-noir woman working on a complicated crochet project (4) two dykes playing cards (5) a barefooted Moroccan boy.

Barthes, “Incidents” trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Natural Life Sanibel Island Caftan size M sage green floral Summer beachy.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Loungees vintage psychedelic floral print nylon caftan one size.

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Jewish:

Clothing has historically been used to represent religious affiliation, social rank, emotional condition, and even the Jews' relationship with the outside world in Judaism. The ancient rabbis stated that one of the reasons the Jews were deserving of being saved from slavery was their distinguishing attire in Egypt.

Jewish males customarily wear prayer shawls and cover their heads with kippot during synagogue services, practises that some liberal Jewish women have adopted as well. While most Jews dress similarly to non-Jews outside of synagogue, many Orthodox Jews are distinguished by specific clothing worn for ritual, tradition, or modesty. Orthodox (and some non-Orthodox) men wear kippot over their heads, with some wearing black caps or a shtreimel, a sort of fur hat. Many Orthodox men wear black suits, and many Hasidic men wear outfits evocative of the way Polish nobles wore in the 18th century, when Hasidic Judaism was founded. Many Orthodox males also wear a tzitzit, a four-pointed garment with fringes on the corners, underneath their shirt – the fringes may spill out from the shirt or be hidden.

Many Orthodox women avoid wearing trousers in favour of dresses and skirts. Furthermore, Orthodox women often dress modestly and cover a large portion of their bodies, but this varies greatly from community to community. Women are discouraged from wearing bright, eye-catching colours in some ultra-Orthodox communities. When they marry, most Orthodox women cover their hair with a cap, wig, or scarf.

What the Torah Has to Say About Clothes There is little in the Torah concerning clothes, either descriptively or prescriptively. It forbids merging wool and linen in a garment (such garments are known as shatnez) without reason, while also outlawing "mixing" various crops and types of livestock (Leviticus 19:19). It prevents men from donning women's clothing and vice versa (Deuteronomy 22:5), without elaborating on either. It also instructs Jews to sew fringes on the corners of four-pointed garments (Numbers 15:37-41), both to identify the Jew and to remind the Jew to keep the mitzvot. On the other hand, the Torah goes into great detail on the clothes of the priests, notably the High Priest, for their duties in the wilderness Tabernacle (Exodus 28), which was eventually adopted for the Temple in Jerusalem. While the High Priest's attire was complex, colourful, and full of symbolism, he was only to wear white linen on Yom Kippur, the one day a year when he would enter the most sacred area of the temple (Leviticus 16:4), as a demonstration of humility. White clothes became a symbol of purity, whereas black became a symbol of grief. Nowadays, the shredding of a clothing denotes grief.

Ancient and Mediaeval Jewish Costume When the Jews were sovereign in their territory in ancient times, the clothing of the rich, such as prosperous landowners, showed their position. The nobles and higher classes wore more formal attire. The styles of neighbouring peoples also had an impact. However, when the Jews were banished (70 C.E.) and under foreign domination, the impoverished of many Jews became visible in their clothing. In certain circumstances, Jews consciously acquired distinctive clothes over time in order to distinguish themselves from the dominant culture. In others, they were legally forced to wear a certain way, such as unique caps and insignia in mediaeval Spain and 13th-century Poland.

Eastern European Jews adopted early modern Polish noble styles such as the black robe (caftan) and the fur cap (shtreimel), which are now worn by diverse groups of ultra-Orthodox Jews. It is unclear when males began to cover their heads with a hat or yarmulke (skullcap). According to the Talmud, covering one's head is a symbol of submission to divine power in numerous circumstances. Some ascribe it to the Jews' wish to distinguish themselves from Christians, for whom removing the hat was a gesture of respect. It had grown popular enough by the 16th century to be codified as conventional behaviour among the most devout, who still cover their heads all day or at least during prayer and study. The exposed head was deemed immodest, if not worse, for women from ancient times. Married ladies hid their heads to avoid attracting the attention of other men. A somewhat late version on this is the sheitel (wig) worn by exceedingly pious married ladies. These practises are now only observed in very traditional communities. Over the centuries, rabbinic authorities frequently spoke out against extravagant or garish dress designs and in favour of keeping clothing, particularly for women, "modest." On the other hand, it has long been a habit for Jews to wear distinctive clothing for Shabbat and festivals, adding to the uniqueness of these occasions.

Referencing:

my jewish learning. (2020). Jewish Clothing. [Online]. my jewish learning. Last Updated: 15 September. Available at: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-clothing/ [Accessed 19 September 2023].

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