Status Updates From The Life to Come

Pippa was wearing coral lipstick, a green dress with a stiff, ruffled skirt like a lampshade, and awful shoes. Her head was too small for the massive skirt - she looked like a broomstick
at a ball. When it was time to leave, she placed a red beret at a careful angle on her cropped hair. Effort so far in excess of achievement couldn't fail to move.

Cassie had the Sydney imperviousness to cold. Her velvet dresses-emerald, sapphire, topaz-were unlined. When an icy gale blew from the west, she slipped a weightless coat over her dress, or a lambswool cardigan. She seemed to own neither scarf nor gloves. Her concession to winter was socks inside her boots.