Day: March 5, 2023

Maybe their mystique grew because of their vintage glamour combined with their eccentric recluse years where they never left their house and painted it top to bottom with polka dots, while sewing thousands of costumes for each other. Or maybe it was because after they died with no family, their neighbor held a 5-year yard sale with their steamer trunks, handmade shoes, hand-beaded costumes, and crowns heading out into the world and now owned and treasured by thousands of different people, literally interwoven into the fabric of New Orleans and the people who love the city.
I describe the documentary as Gray Gardens Meets Gypsy Rose Lee Meets Sisterhood of the Traveling Underpants.