Thursday, February 25, 1999
Bride, er, moose is wearing white
BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
So why, we were asking, is that moose wearing a wedding dress?
Referring here to one of two mounted moose (mooses? meese? moosii?) heads in the bar at Newport's York Street Cafe.
Like we said: WHY? Marsie Newbold, a marketing consultant who spends a bit of time hanging out there, has the answer.
“It's my dress. From my first wedding . . . it didn't work out so I thought we'd let the moose wear it. It's held on his shoulders with ribbons and draped so it looks like the moose has a body.”
Some dress, this. At least for a moose. A $1,500 Chantilly lace number, it's sleeveless, off the shoulder and comes with a Juliet cap, 10-foot cathedral train and blush veil over the mouth (affixed with a stick some practical but not elegant soul shoved through the nose).
The hoop that poofed the skirt outtohere has been removed, lest it knock bar patrons off their stools.
“I'll tell you,” Newbold says, “if I had known in 1980 when I walked down the aisle in it that one day it would end up on a moose, I don't know if I would have laughed or fled.”
Newbold gave it to one moose, rather than the other, because “I thought that one looked more feminine, even with antlers. He has the most radiant twinkle in his eye.”
And we thought it was the Tanqueray playing tricks on us.
LISTEN UP, KIDS: Well for goodness sake, would you look who's turning up on C-Span. It's Cincinnatian Brandon Marie Miller. And she doesn't even have anything to do with presidential impeachment hearings.
But she does have a lot to do with books. Miller, author of Dressed for the Occasion: What America Wore 1620-1970 (Lerner Publications; $22), will pop up on C-Span 2's All About Books.
Taped at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in late January, Miller does a 45-minute presentation for parents and kids (grades four-to-eight is her target group), telling stories from the book, explaining powdered wigs, hoop skirts, bustles, bloomers, men in knee britches, that sort of thing.
J-B was crowded, so a lot of local kids will see themselves on TV.
Miller, meanwhile, may or may not see herself: “I don't know if I'll watch. I saw a promo for it last week and thought it was unbelievable, me on TV. But I also thought I'll probably tape it and watch when I get my nerve up. Let my husband watch and tell me if I'm awful or look fat or something.”
The 45-minute show airs 3 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.
PAGEANT ON THE MOVE?: So what's this? The Miss Kentucky USA pageant packing its tiara and moving to Covington?
That's the goal, says Cincinnatian Melissa Proctor, incoming director of Kentucky's pageant. The pageant, held for the past 14 years in Paducah, is a feeder pageant for Miss USA, which in turn is a feeder for Miss Universe.
Proctor knows a bit about pageants. She was Miss Ohio in 1990. She also was one of Revlon's Nine Unforgettable Women (selected out of 33,000 hopefuls) from 1988 to '91.
She works with the Miss Universe project throughout Kentucky, she says, judging pageants and traveling the state conducting programs on the pageant.
But right now she's concentrating on moving the pageant — digging up sponsors, looking at hotel packages, looking for a venue that would hold the thing.
If that falls into place (there's no time frame yet) the pageant's here. If not, off to Paducah.
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