Zazel Maxi Dress

materials - 100% cotton ZAZEL is a reversible tiered maxi dress with alternating railroad stripe colors. It has a feminine flounce with a masculine cut bodice. It can be worn with the lower side in front in traditional pinafore style with a band t-shirt underneath, or with the higher side in front like the pinafore’s gym class namesake: the pinnie. model wears size XL ~~~~~~~~ This piece is named after Rossa Matilda Richter aka Zazel, the first human cannonball and a woman of history in the circus/freak show zeitgeist. She was shot out of a cannon (sort of… never ask a carnie to explain their tricks!) for the first time in 1877 at the inhibitionless age of 17. I have always had a thing for the circus - not Ringling Brothers or Siegfried & Roy, but the seedy underbelly of traveling misfits. Like aerialist Edwardian pirates. Growing up near Coney Island, our summer fun was underlined by the macabre history of Topsy and Steeplechase Park. Millennial Brooklynites might even remember S