A woman enters the
Dominion one afternoon in early October. She immediately comes up to
the counter. “Do you have that movie with Catwoman in it?”
“Which one?” Fernando
replies. “The Dark Knight Rises isn't set to come out for a
while yet, so I'm afraid I've only got Batman Returns and
Catwoman with Halle Berry.”
“Either one of those
will do. I'm dressing up as her for Halloween and I want to make sure
I get the costume right.”
Hmm. Though the internet
exists and there are a great overabundance of stills from assorted
movies, cosplays, and so forth of assorted women portraying Catwoman,
Fernando does not mention this source of answers to his customer, not
yet. “Well, they have different costumes in each of them,”
Fernando says. “It's a pity I don't have any of the old Adam West
Batman here so you could see how they costumed Julie Newmar's
Catwoman as well.”
“You have the other
ones, though?”
“Absolutely.”
Fernando rises and retrieves the two movies for the woman. He feels
momentarily guilty that he is subjecting another living human being
to Catwoman, but he shoves this ill-advised empathy away.
The transaction goes
through without issue. “Thanks a lot,” she tells Fernando when
she gathers her movies together. “I hope this will be good enough
to show me how to do it.”
Now Fernando can
be the good guy and impart upon her the boundless knowledge of the
electronic sphere. “Well, if it isn't, you can always search online
for ideas and maybe even, uh, fabric-cut out-guide-things.”
“Patterns?”
“Yep, that's probably
the word I'm looking for, thanks. Catwoman's a fairly popular sort
for ladies to cosplay as.”
“Oh, cool. Thanks for
mentioning that, I never would have thought of it otherwise!”
“My pleasure. Best of
luck in your costume endeavors.”
Whether these
investigative efforts will have yielded fruit is a revelation only
the future holds.
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