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Lao-Tzu Dress now available
This dress is a whisper of gossamer fabric, endowed with all the fascinating color of a very special type of fish, the betta splenden. The dress is named for my very own, very ancient betta, Lao-Tzu. The purple “Twilight” version is the original, and is the one based on his coloring. Lao-Tzu is named so because he is a Chinese fighting fish, yet he lives in an aquarium with a school of tetras, an emerald cory, an albino emerald cory, and has shared the living space with the odd shrimp and Plecostomus, and has never felt a need to attack them. He is the very picture of zen. Even the pet shop people are in disbelief when we tell them that our betta doesn’t live in a bowl alone. He’s also survived ick, a disease that kills most fish or otherwise leaves them hideous — returned to his full splendor from death’s door soon afterwards. We thought we’d lost him, then — so now we’re convinced he’s become immortal.Because he is so very old, and because looking at him each day fills me with serenity, I was inspired to create a dress that mimicked the way his large, graceful fins pull through the water as he follows me around the room (as much as his tank will allow). Recalling colors I’d seen in other bettas (and some goldfish), I made the other six dresses.
Each dress comes on all five clothing layers for max layerability (our standard), is mod/copy, and has prim sleeves and a skirt that flow smoothly and evenly as you move.
In spite of the fact that this dress set took three days of solid tablet painting, I’m offering it at the permanent price of L$250. If you buy the fatpack, you get two dresses free — a L$500 savings.