Thursday, 24 September 2015

'I TAWT I TAW A PUTTY TAT!': BICOLOR BLOUSE AND PONTE FLOUNCE SKIRT


We continue our journey into Sylvester’s world – this week tackling his relationship with his most famous opponent, Tweety the canary. 

Cream ponte flounce skirt and boatneck bicolor blouse
Cream ponte flounce skirt and boatneck bicolor blouse
I tawt I taw a putty tat!

Starting with their first episode together, ‘Tweetie Pie’ (even though Sylvester’s name back then was Thomas), we see our protagonist’s every attempt at catching the smart canary woefully fails.



As always, Sylvester is enthusiastic and confident – sometimes rightfully so, as in ‘I taw a putty tat’, which begins with an allusion to Sylvester’s previous success: his master calls the pet shop to request a new canary, ‘the fifth this month (…) He must’ve flown out the window’. Only now she gets Tweety, a sweet and naïve bird that believes the ‘putty tat’ came to play with him. At least apparently so. Because in fact the feared feline hunter has finally met his match, Tweety the lisp canary is anything but naïve and always finds new methods of turns the odds in his favor. As a matter of fact, the episode ends with Tweety concluding ‘Her don’t know me very well, do her?’ when his master calls the pet shop to request a new cat, after Tweety got rid of Sylvester in a rather cruel manner, by locking him up in a bird cage with a ‘puddy dog’. And the scenes repeat in a similar fashion in most of the episodes the two are seen together – plus or minus the dog or the master.



The two sides of the story reflect in ‘I taw a putty tat’ outfit – white for a confident Sylvester, that doesn’t just give up easily, and black for the disastrous exit of the afore-mentioned cat. At the same time, borrowing the breeches from the masculine wardrobe is a symbolic means of underlining the episode’s outcome: Sylvester is tied up – both literally and figuratively speaking – to the ‘wittle puddy dog’.


Boatneck bicolor blouse in cream an black crape, with lining and sheer back
Boatneck bicolor blouse in cream an black crape, with lining and sheer back
Crape lined blouse with sheer back, size 38

Cream ponte flounce skirt with detachable suspenders
Ponte di Rome straight skirt with flounce and detachable suspenders, size 38