(Kiri defends the dress to be worn at her father’s inauguration as being appropriate despite its risqué design. We go over some of what we could anticipate as to the function and how the reaction to the dress might turn out.) 

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Russ: so how you been doing darling?

Kiri: I’m doing good.

Russ: getting ready for Sirius?

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: it’s a little ways away.

Kiri: yeah, I’m going to wear a formal strapless dress with long white gloves. I was going to do it in emerald green. Why are you shaking your head?

Russ: oh I was just thinking, just a mental picture of you in a strapless dress.

Kiri: I will wear underwear.

Russ: okay, just checking.

Kiri: but a strapless dress is designed to be worn without a bra.

Russ: I know it's designed that way which is why I was shaking my head.

Kiri: uh-huh and that’s why I’m choosing it.

Russ: because you're not going to wear a bra.

Kiri: correct, I don’t like wearing hammocks.

Russ: oh like I’ve seen some of your bathing suits dear, they’re nothing more than a few pieces of dental floss and duct tape holding the whole thing together.

Kiri: and they’re very successful.

Russ: well yeah they're very successful, I’m not suggesting anything more than what you design yourself.

Kiri: uh-huh, they’re not designed to reveal more flesh, it’s to hide things.

Russ: well, why do you think I was making that suggestion for dear? Just to hide some things so that the president who is being inaugurated would be in the best humor as possible.

Kiri: strapless dresses are quite acceptable at formal functions. You think I would go to such an important event and be very silly and juvenile? I can be.

Russ: all I can do is I can just imagine your headlights coming on and…….

Kiri: do you think I don’t have that emotional control or that I would not take precautions?

Russ: it could get cold.

Kiri: yes?

Russ: could be a cool breeze blows in through the door.

Kiri: yes?

Russ: there’s nothing emotional about it…..

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: it’s strictly a physical reaction.

Kiri: because it’s cold.

Russ: right.

Kiri: do you think I would be unprepared?

Russ: I just shook my head just because I had a mental picture of what it would be like for you to just sitting there, formal function in the reception line and your headlights come on. ”Hi, and you must be……uh.....uh...”

Kiri: there you go again, third dimensional male things.

Russ: well I’m sure sixth dimensional men have the same reactions.

Kiri: yes but they're a lot more discrete about it and don’t advertise the fact.

Russ: well I don’t either.

Kiri: uh-huh, strapless dresses are very acceptable and worn quite frequently to formal events.

Russ: of course.

Kiri: in fact I believe your late Princess of Wales did quite a few times.

Russ: I suppose, I haven't followed it much.

Kiri: ohhhh.

Russ: I don't go to many formal things.

Kiri: well you have your first big one coming up on Sirius.

Russ: yeah, I think some practice.

Kiri: uh-huh.