Oh to be here.
Midnight blue in velvet, it nearly looks like, but that a little too fancy for a January thaw. Maybe not, but sleet on the horizon according to the weather people. That being enough to put a damper on anything, even if it’s silk crushed by little gnomes, judging by what the dressmakers wanted for that frock back in Montreal.
my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1949-and-nine-in-the

Tika the Italian greyhound who was a social media star with her own Instagram account dressed in Dancing Dog Couture. She died on November 4, 2025, at the age of 14. This photograph and others from the same photo shoot appear in various places on the internet including here https://dancingdogcouture.com/pages/about though I found it https://www.instagram.com/ahistoryofdogs/p/DQpmpytksS5/?hl=en here.