Kaleigh has got a lot going on here, cowboy boots on a hot sunny day, interesting glasses, fun hair, a facial piercing. The centrepiece, however, is the two slips she’s wearing together as a dress. “I’ve worn it a lot this summer. All over Canada. But it originated at the Salvation Army on Green Street.” One of the slips is from a friend’s mom. Taking a look at it, she realized it’s all backwards, “but I’m hung over.” She popped out the frames of her sunglasses to put in prescription lenses. They are a throwback, huge, clear lenses with nice curvy gold coloured arms. The first ones she had put in were rose-coloured, “but I looked like a pink-eyed rat.”

This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.

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