Two older ladies walk in and are stunning. Truly stunning. Stunningly out of place and just perfectly fitting in, an unusual feat they deserve a prize for. They also deserve the prize for the “best costume”.
The one is a classical russian matrona, very round, not very tall, wide dress and long wide pants underneath in the same very colorful very flowery pattern, with long silver hair, dark eyes full of ease and content and wit, and glowing-red cheeks that look like from the advertisements of the sixties. Her friend wears a cone-shaped hat, like those you see chinese wearing in reports about the life of fishermen along the Yangtze. The hat is black, her hair is silver-white and tied together in one long braid by a black and white striped band. Her black blouse has a simple, straight cut, while the skirt is sporting horizontal black and white stripes, corresponding to the hair band. I can't avert my eyes of these two (but do, well behaved), they combine aged gorgeousness with rule-ignoring individualism in a way I haven't seen before. Outstandingly crazy.
The ladies join the young beauties at the lunch buffet, and laughter and stories told in the beautiful language of Dostoiewsky and Tolstoi and Pushkin, all hanging on the walls and observing the scene, fill the room.
- 'Gruene Lampe', Uhlandstrasse, in Berlin Mitte/Charlottenburg -
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