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Have you seen this woman?

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  • queencallipygos
    queencallipygos
    gags2008 wrote: Maybe I require clarification, but I thought the whole point of these boards and being "internet anonymous" is that you could express yourself in ways that you wouldn't in "polite society". Well, not the WHOLE point, but certainly preserving a certain level of anonymity allows one to be honest (or dishonest) or express oneself with a degree of freedom one wouldn't necessary feel in a face-to-face situation.
    Um...yes and no.

    Yes, internet anonymity can give you some comfort in speaking about difficult or controversial topics. But there's a difference between "Anonymity lets me feel comfortable about discussing the crack house that is on the corner" and "anonymity lets me feel comfortable about gossiping about a neighbor, poking fun at her beind her back and maybe causing people to ostracize her." In one case, you're preserving your own safety while you tackle a dangerous situation -- but in the other, you're just disguising your tracks in the course of being a dick.
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    I do not see what is wrong with discussing a person's public eccentricities... the way he or she chooses to dress or behave while in public... without spreading false information.

    To me the line would be crossed were we either to claim we had inside knowledge about the person's history, psyche, etc., or equally wrong, were we to disseminate accurate information of a private nature.

    So long as everyone admits they're just speculating, and so long as they are not speculating about someone's sex life or otherwise inherently private business, what's the harm, and what makes it creepy (or worse, KREEPY)?
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    I'm surprised some people are assuming that she actually cares that some people think her clothes are "weird". If she made those choices for the reasons that have been enumerated above, I doubt she cares about the opinions of random people. I could be completely wrong, of course, but it seems kind of presumptuous to assume that someone would be concerned with every little thing other people say about them. How could you get though life if you were?
  • pitu
    pitu
    gags2008 wrote:
    Haha . . . really? Are you speaking as moderator?
    just a point of information
    when the moderators of this board are speaking as moderators, we say so and usually use a different color and preface the note with
    MOD NOTE:

    but this discussion is about what people think is appropriate in discussing their neighbors, not what is allowed on Brooklynian.

    I think West Meets East has a point.
    I'd hate to be the person who reads this board and thinks that's my Comme des Garçons sack cloth you are hating on
    :D
    I don't know this woman, but I doubt she cares what some people think about her sense of fashion.
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    "The whole idea that we should "edit our thoughts" . . . how patronizing. Sounds like an over-inflated sense of self-importance; because one works in the rag trade one is an expert on eccentric people's needs to not be talked about? Isn't the whole fashion industry based on pointless speculation about who's wearing what?

    Anyway, give us credit to know the difference between inappropriate personal attacks and harmless speculation about why some woman would wear a bag everyday . "


    Excellent, well said.
  • obamanut
    obamanut
    The lady you're talking about, her name is Joanie. She's kind of like a 'bag lady' who isn't homeless. She alternates between the black and white shirt, I guess depending on the season, and yes she wears the same black nylon-type dress everyday all year round. As you can probably gather from her appearance and behavior, she's a bit out there. She is friendly at first, but will eventually snap on you if you know her long enough (especially if you're male).
    I don't think you're missing out on any big exciting mystery by not knowing more about her and her routine.
  • gags2008
    gags2008
    "black nylon-type dress"

    DAMMIT! Now I AM curious! Not about the lady but the dress. How can you call it NYLON!?!?! Nylon and burlap don't look like each other in the least!

    F**k - now I will have to stalk her . . . hahaha . . . . kidding!
  • raw
    raw

    Subject: Re: Really, would you like someone to post about what you we

    West Meets East wrote: [quote=Yavel]OMG, this thread is hilarious! I always wondered about this woman. I moved out of Brooklyn a year ago and would love to unravel the mystery behind sack skirt lady.
    I might be asking for a firestorm of criticism but am I alone in feeling this whole thread is KREEPY?

    You're just annoyed because we're stalking you too and you're sick of feeling our eyes on your back.
  • raw
    raw
    Obamanut wrote: The lady you're talking about, her name is Joanie.
    Can you give us her social security number too?
  • gags2008
    gags2008
    I have installed surveillance cameras on that block and am watching them on my laptop as we speak . . . .

    Just sit back and watch and . . . soooon enough . . . all my KREEPY burlap fantasies will come true . . .

    Heheheheh *drool* heheheheheheheh *heavy breathing* hehehehehehe
  • caseopele
    caseopele
    She makes her own clothes and doesn't have a computer. I've seen her around the neighborhood for about 17 years now. She is also one of the Park Slope 100 from Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. A fact she was completely unaware of until I told her. She's never been anything but nice to me, then again I don't know her that well.
    THE SKIRT LADY because you sit in the window at Starbucks in your beautiful self-designed clothing and quietly create amazing necklaces out of dried fruit and berries from Prospect Park.
    http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/only_the_blog_knows_brook/park_slope_100/index.html
  • gags2008
    gags2008
    . . . sits in Starbucks making dried fruit and berry necklaces?????

    :shock: AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

    Uh, I think we have more to fear from skirt lady than vice versa . . .

    KREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • caseopele
    caseopele
    gags2008 wrote: . . . sits in Starbucks making dried fruit and berry necklaces?????

    :shock: AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

    Uh, I think we have more to fear from skirt lady than vice versa . . .

    KREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I don't know about that, I think you need to watch out more for the "normal" looking people than us freaks.
  • gags2008
    gags2008
    True dat!

    I kid the burlap / nylon skirt lady. Hey - if I had any clue who she was I'm sure we be best buds . . . just thought making necklaces from berries in the park was too funny. Hope kids don't think it's edible and that. Could be tragic.

    I mean, wow . . . but then again I have some strange hobbies too . . .
  • caseopele
    caseopele
    Oh, she's definitely an odd duck but I tend to like the strange ones. :)
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    caseopele wrote: Oh, she's definitely an odd duck but I tend to like the strange ones. :)
    Normal people are freaks. 8)
  • nitcomb
    nitcomb

    Subject: Re: Have you seen this woman?

    NativeSloper wrote: I grew up on President Street and have worked at several stores on the 7th avenue strip in my teen years. I remember seeing a woman, Caucasian, who wore a very strange outfit. It was a white linen top, and what I can only describe as a black dress/pants that looks very much like a burlap sack. She has stringy strawberry blonde hair drawn into a bun. She wears this white top and burlap sack black dress/pants EVERY SINGLE DAY. Week after week, month after month, year after year you will NEVER see this woman out of that outfit! I am not sure if it's her quirky statement on style and commercialism, or if she's just some uber rich PPW/8th avenue eccentric but I wonder if anyone has seen her or knows what the deal is.

    Thanks!
    I know a few people who have talked to her over the years. Supposedly she was some kind of fashion designer way back when. Yeah, strange that she only sports one fashion. An eccentric Sloper indeed... I wish there were more interesting folks like her still around. Things are getting a bit bland 'round here.
  • veets
    veets
    No kidding, I am sitting here thinking of some quirky way to dress or be in PS so that everyone will know exactly who I am though never know who I am. It seems it would be some strange form of "performance art" that I could take over as a lifestyle and would allow me togive up my dreary existence.
  • jeffrey
    jeffrey
    Aaaaahhhh yeahhhh...

  • gags2008
    gags2008
    Yeah! HAMMER TIME!!! :D
  • yavel
    yavel
    caseopele wrote: She is also one of the Park Slope 100 from Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.
    Ok, now I feel dirty. :?
  • sloper08
    sloper08
    But does anyone know about the properties that she or her daughters, or she maybe one of the daughters, owns. Its on 2nd. street and 7th ave. its a gorgeous building but i hear that it has been out of use for over 30 years. why did that not do anything with it. from what i hear the bar lost its license and the school went up and now the building is vacant. by now it has to be worth millions. and i think the city owns it due to unpaid taxes. what do we know about the building is what i am getting at.
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