The Lannamer Chronicle¹

Fashion Stories

The mid-summer² festival is always a great spectacle and a wonderful time to see what the fashion world holds, and this year was no different.

The Lady Etaememevvyo³ made, as is her wont in recent years, the most impressive splash with her details. You may remember the hat she wore last year, done in an ancient Bitrani-esque fashion but with decidedly Calenyena notes?

This year, of course, Etaevyo⁴ was under obligation to out-do herself, especially with her elder sister's wedding so quickly upcoming. And outdo herself she did!

Her headpiece this year was a more sedate thing, hearkening back to the ancient styles of her ancestors. It had to be; she presumably wanted nothing to draw attention away from her footwear.

And, for the first time in many a mid-summer festival - or perhaps in her life - everyone was staring at Lady Etaememevvyo's toes.

The boots she wore - they have to be called boots - went up to her knees, as a riding boot or a campaigning boot might. However, the soft felt of their nature - dyed in streaks and swirls to complement the solid colors of her dress - was attached to a hard wooden sole, which had a wedge heel of at least a hand-span.

What's more, the felt had been cut away strategically, so that Etaevyo's toes, the arches of her feet, and her ankles remained bare.

Rumor has it that she will be auctioning off these boots at Kaidebbee's. Last year, the affectation she called a hat sold for enough to finance the Pyietnaazh Orphanage for an entire year.

1. After some consideration of newspaper titles, I decided, short of making up the Calenyena word for "talking stick (which I should do), "Chronicle" was the closest to a Calenyena concept while still very clearly saying "newspaper."

2. Lit. "Hot and Wet season." The Calenyena recognize three seasons - Cold, Hot/wet, and Harvest.

3. Etaememevvyo: Ee-tay-meemeev-vyoh

4. Etaevyo: as is common in this era, the newspaper is shortening the Lady's name to the familiar first couple syllables+last couple syllables.

5. This newspaper is contemporary with Edally Academy.