gothic/glam/industrial/post-apocalyptic streetwear
and accessories for themselves and clients, often
utilizing unique items they find at vintage/antique
shops and markets. This self-created moniker for the
seemingly undefinable work these women engage
in, with their outrageous looks and leather jackets
stitched with the name, often get the pair mistaken
for being members of a band.
Miss E relates that “an unfortunate problem about
owning a costume shop and looking the way I do, is
that I frequently get people asking me if I’m wearing a
costume when I’m at work, which I find very irritating.
However, when I’m out in public, I frequently get
mistaken for a rock star, which I find very flattering, so I
have to take the bad with the good, I guess. People often
come up to me and ask me questions like, ‘What’s this?
Why are you wearing this?’ I will tell anyone anything
as long as they are polite, because there’s not a lot of
different, alternative people out there. So if you find
one, that might be your opportunity to ask questions
that you might not be able to ask anyone else.”
Miss E’s decorative style also extends to her apartment,
which she quotes as being one of her main inspirations.
She has a 1910s embalming table as her dining room table
(which freaked some of her friends out a bit at first – but
she assured them it had been sanitized before they sat
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