For how much you get paid, like $200 an hour, that’s a lot of money, how much costume money do you count per…?

I know, it’s ridiculous!  Well, but keeping in mind you can reuse stuff so it’s not a one time shot. 

Unless it’s hosiery…do they rip those off a lot? 

(She bursts out laughing.) 

No, seriously!  I know a guy who liked to rip off hose!  He said they were disposable.  I was like, dude, they cost like 30 bucks really? No!  

That has totally happened to me! Oh, my God!!  One time this guy asked me to turn around, you know right, he turns and he ripped it.  I said, What the fuck are you doing!' And I said something like you are paying for that!  So I actually, I’m a terrible person, for people I know who are into this shit, I’ll deliberately wear the ones that have a run, so if there’s like a small run that I can hide and I know he’s going to rip it later, yeah.  Or like, I have this client who…I always manage to 'lose' my underwear at his house…  ‘I just can’t find my panties.’  So I always wear the ones like I don’t like or are getting ready to wear out, or like don’t really match.  But I can never wear the ones that match my bras that I have, because, you know, what people don’t understand it’s not just a replacement of the panties it’s a replacement of the set because you can’t find a match again. 

Exactly! And I found that out at Victoria’s Secret they move their stock like every month.  Because now I have this obsession with wanting my underwear to match. 

But that’s not the fashion anymore have you noticed? Victoria’s Secret doesn’t, they used to be perfect.  Every single bra had a match.  Always, perfect, perfect, perfect!  Okay, not anymore.  They have whole sections where they don’t match, or like the color will be the same but the style and the lace isn’t the same.  Yeah.  So a few years ago it became even more, because I used to always be able to go to Victoria’s Secret and get what I needed and a few years ago they stopped doing that or something and all the other stores followed the lead in part because they're all owned by the Limited here in town.  And so I actually started thinking where can I go to buy matching bra and panties?  And my friend says, 'You know what you are? You’re that crazy 80 year old who has to buy a corset at a fetish store because that’s what she wore when she was a kid and she just can’t wear something else now.’  I don’t fucking care, it’s a business decision, shut the fuck up.  And so I started thinking to myself, 80 year olds, okay, where do 80 year olds shop? Where do 80 year olds buy their underwear?…And the answer is Macy’s!  Macy’s has every matching thing ever. 

Interesting…I buy a lot of stuff at Burlington Coat Factory. 

You know, I don’t like their underwear. 

Really? 

Mmmmhmmm…also they are not very friendly to the plus size women.  Yeah, I used to love MJR when their shit was crap and, don’t get me wrong, it’s gotten better over the last few years.  Their stuff is much nicer over the last few years but their prices are much higher, I’m using it as a source of disposable clothing, of which I’m only planning on wearing once or twice.  I can’t pay fifteen or twenty bucks for something I’m only going to wear once. 

See, I’m the same way, but I do the costuming thing, right?  And I’m like a frugal person and that’s why I wanted the free pasties and thong because…what am I going to do with it? 

Yeah, and a lot of the shit I buy for work, I suppose some of it theoretically I could wear… if I were…going to go someplace…where you could wear that…I don’t know. Where the fuck am I supposed to wear this?  You know what I mean?  I don’t go to a lot of bars…especially…the see through shit.  The see through shit and the weird patterns on the hosiery. 

Yeah!  I was at Adam & Eve and they had some hosiery in the window that had this weird pattern, but I liked it because it was so weird.  But I didn’t buy them because, where would you wear them? 

Well, yeah, what the fuck do you do with that? And I often think to myself, who buys that?  I have this one suit that I bought at Macy’s years ago that is very conservative, business suit, you know, below the knee - I had it altered – but it’s below the knee.  It has this cheetah print lining and then like at the bottom a little fur ruff and I thought, that suit was originally two hundred bucks, what white collar business woman was going to fucking wear that? You know what I mean? So now it's super discounted; no fucking wonder!  Who the Hell was going to pay full price?  So, I often find clothing that’s just a little off, like it’s just a little too sexual for whatever it was manufactured for and so it’s at a good price. 

I do the same thing, and I’ve got these weird clothes that I can’t wear anywhere unless I go out to a bar. 

But it was an excellent price because no one was going to buy that to wear it to work which is what it had apparently been designed for... 

The weirdest thing that I ever bought that I still have not worn it out anywhere because it doesn’t make any sense to me…I bought it in the career woman section at Burlington…it’s see through, it’s pleated, it’s got a corset thing in the front, and it’s a shirt!  I mean really…and it’s red!  And I’ve never even worn it because you just can’t fit that into your wardrobe unless…you have a reason to…