Every day pop star was a great success! The host of the party was sceptical at first and didn't believe I was in costume (which was understandable), but I explained the concept to her and told her to be patient, and the costume would reveal itself. I explained the concept to a few other people during the course of the evening, but even those to whom I didn't explain it picked up pretty quickly that I was constantly changing my clothes.
I tried to pace the changes like the arc of a concert, starting slow, building up to a crescendo of ridiculousness, then cooling down again to the end. Initially I was changing my clothes after every drink, but after a little while it became pretty much whenever I felt like it. All in all I went through ten changes of clothes. The changes, in case anyone's wondering, were:
- t-shirt & chinos (what I'd been wearing all day; I arrived at the party dressed in these)
- suit & tie (I thought that the first change should be very obviously different from the previous outfit, to make it clear to people early what was going on)
- hoodie & jeans (I didn't stay in this for long, it was boring)
- floppy hat, khaki shirt, shorts, gaters (bushwalking atire)
- singlet & shorts
- pyjamas
- thermal underwear (top & bottom)
- suit pants, shirt, & oversized tie-died Chinese waistcoat
- black peaked hat, Hawaiian shirt, & chinos
- t-shirt, red wooly jumper, jeans, & Coopers Dark Ale trucker's cap
The last outfit was the one I left the party in: at that stage I'd used every item of clothing I had on me except for a black woolen beanie and a pair of waterproof trousers. I was wearing a pair of black dress shoes throughout the evening (my normal shoes), apart from when I had on the pyjamas and the thermal underwear, at which times I was barefoot.
