fandomhigh | The Art of Cool: Class 8, Period 2 (Friday, March 7)

Barney missed Mexico, but lucky for the class, he and Tink had brought along a few reminders. Like the picture of Ron watching porn, and the picture of Brooke, drunk and locked out of her hotel room. Both pictures were on the display when students arrived.

"I'm so proud of our TA, aren't you, Ms. Bell?" Barney asked, smiling broadly at the screen.

Oh! Oh, Tink was! His first porn! He was growing up! And that girl had gotten very drunk! Drinking and pornography, these were the sorts of educational school-sponsored field trips that they should take more often! Excuse her, she was a little stuffed up. Did someone have a handkerchief?

He offered her his pocket square, thought it was rather bigger than her body. "I do have one question, what was up with your employee in the scary 1980s Hawaii-50 shirts?"

Tink was severely displeased with that. Tink was going to pretend that that was a sign that all of his luggage was stolen when they got to Mexico, and his money caught on fire, and he was reduced to wearing clothes left over from hobos, to cover up a nasty skin rash that prevented him from walking around naked. Because otherwise Tink might have to take back that raise, and he was so very pretty and seemed to be good with the promiscuous sex and had Barney heard him talk? He talked fancy.

"Why don't we talk about the clothing that will help a student on the road to being cool. Nay, Awesome! For Awesome is what we must all aspire to become! Well, other than the frog, who will always be green and rather small."

And somewhat disturbing. Did Barney notice the frog was disturbing? Really. Felt. But yes! Clothing! She had brought some with her! All the way from her store downtown and wasn't that ever so nice of her, to bring it here? Racks of it. Very chic and expensive and if these dense students damaged any of it she was going to remove bits of them. Bits they were fond of. Diane Von Furstenberg was not Jordache, and they could show a little respect.

Barney turned to whisper loudly to Tink, "Has the bait been set?"

Tink beamed. Yes, yes it had! She'd rescued some items from the Burning Fire Room, and even requested items to be sent by suppliers that ... well. She'd need more absinthe to speak of those horrors. But yes, there were some truly hideous clothes stuck in there just waiting for the students to trip themselves up with.

"Excellent!" Barney rubbed his hands together like the evil genius he thought himself to be. "Remember, dressing each other is both entertaining and educational. What's hot on Robin Sparkles isn't going to be hot on Robin the Frog."

And absolutely nothing would be hot on the TA. Now! Dress yourselves, children! And one another! And try not to suck too badly. As always.

[OOC: We really want pancakes.]

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"That's nice but I'm still acing this class so they're gonna have to go for a little while," Brooke said, already studying him and deciding what she wanted to put him in.

"But nowhere too far. I don't want one of the professors to accidentally set them on fire," Luke said.

Brooke made a face as if she didn't think that would be too bad an idea. "Okay, so giving you a little bit of choice here. Casual or dressy?"

"Casual," Luke replied. "I've managed to work my way into a suit a couple of times."

"Maybe I'll find you something you could wear with a suit jacket, just in case..." she said, already looking over her choices and finding a few things before saying, "Ooh! Logo! Instant cool."

Luke looked the last item over skeptically. "It's a shirt. What makes it cool?"

"Gucci," she said simply, figuring that should say it all.

"Bless you."

She stared at him.

"It's a designer label," she said. "A designer label means you can afford it, and that is automatic cool. And this says it right on there so no one can even question it."

"I don't get it," Luke said, taking the khaki pants and the shirt and changing quickly.

He wore them both well--yay for lightsaber workouts.

Brooke looked him over appraisingly. "Very nice," she said, and handed over a pair of shoes. "And there you go."

Luke smiled at her. "I think I like my other clothes better," he said, "but thank you. My turn?"

This would end well.

Brooke winced a little. "No robes, please?"

"Jaina looks good in robes," Luke commented absently, flipping through a rack of dresses like he had any idea what he was looking for. "How about one (http://bluefly.com/pages/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=2083146247&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2083113463&N=2083113461&Ns=New%7c1%7c%7cProduct%2bCode%7c1&Nu=Product+ID) of (http://bluefly.com/pages/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=2083148379&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2083113463&N=2083113461&Ns=New%7c1%7c%7cProduct%2bCode%7c1&Nu=Product+ID) these? (http://bluefly.com/pages/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=2080769125&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2083113463&N=2083113461&Nao=36&Ns=New%7c1%7c%7cProduct%2bCode%7c1&Nu=Product+ID)"

"Yeah, still not her," Brooke commented, but she was really surprised when she saw his choices and said, "...Okay, I'll take them."

"Really?" Luke squeaked.

"I know, right?" she said. "Okay, the second one I can do without, but the first I can totally wear out and the last one is so a date outfit. How'd you pull that off?"

"I picked the first three dresses I saw?" he admitted sheepishly.

"Then bless Pixie Dust and take the credit," she said, and took the two dresses to hold up to her in turn. "Okay, so what do you think, club dress or date dress?"

"Date dress," Luke said, nodding.

She handed the first one back. "Then we've done some good work here today."

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