because it's fabulous.

As I stood on the train platform this morning, over dressed (70 degrees in October, what?!?) in my jacket, hat and scarf, head plugged into my iPod, and coffee in hand. I took advantage of some much needed people watching time. Sundays are good for that, as trains run less frequently, I spied a most peculiar and disturbing site.
No, not public urination, a Justin Bieber T-shirt or poster of Obama sporting a Hitler mustache, all good guesses though.

A man in a top hat an tails walked up the stairs towards me, and on or should I say through,  the top hat was Mickey Mouse himself. Mickey's head, arms and partial torso were protruding from the front, and as he turned I saw that Mickey's ass and affiliated limbs were sticking out the back.

A truly dreadful sight for a pre-caffeinated Sunday.

All I could think was, why? Why would someone wear such a thing? Poor, poor Mickey, his rear looks rather larger than it is in those red shorts. Not at all flattering. If only Walt had given him a nice pair of slimming slacks or multi-purpose denim pantaloons. To be stuck in red hot pants for all eternity... alack.

And then! as my iPod changed songs I overheard this hat donning stranger say to his companion that he was wearing the hat, "because it's fabulous".

Two thoughts flashed through my mind; firstly that this man was clearly gay, no straight man, Mickey hat or no, would ever use fabulous as an explanation for fashion (?) choices. Secondly; is it fabulous?

Was it?
Oh my, what if it is?
His matter-of-fact air and bold declarative statement... he was SO sure....

What if it was? What if it was so fabulous that it was beyond my comprehension? Was this poor, poor man unappreciated in his own time like some modern day Van Gogh, or was he such a trend setter that my un-artistically minded self judged harshly and rashly on site. When in reality come fall of 2011 we would ALL be sporting hat with stuffed animals protruding from them! (Oh lord, I hope not)

"because its fabulous"-- how liberating, how bold, how truly freeing!

but that hat, fabulous or not, was truly one of the strangest things I had ever seen a-top a man's head.