on a hot tip, went to the backstreet cultural museum. it's in the treme, has the largest collection of mardi gras indian costumes, and is home to the best boots i've ever seen- all beads and sequins sewn onto cardboard, sewn onto a pair of tennis shoes. gals dress in baby-doll costumes like this one to pay homage to the former red-light district. 
every year each person in a tribe makes a new costume. this guy's costume last year had to do with the fleur-de-lis and its history, which includes being a common french slave brand. i was partial to this get-up...
robert made all of the costumes behind him.
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