After assuming they had made it through the worst of a year-long lockdown as vaccine appointments draw closer, one local woman’s parents and siblings are struggling to come to terms with her reaching the much-feared tie-dye phase of pandemic.
“We saw the cases of tie-dying spiking last summer and, to our relief then, no one in our family caught it,” said mother Rebecca Armstrong of Lake City. “Then one day last month my daughter Chelsea just waltzed into the living room dressed head-to-toe in a tie-dye sweatsuit like it was no big deal. Colors were bleeding everywhere. It was horrifying.”
According to Armstrong, that was just the beginning as her daughter started experimenting with all kinds of tie-dye techniques on every piece of light clothing she could get her hands on.
“Oh she was all over the place using Shibori, Ice-Dye, Crumple, Sunburst, Spiral, Bullseye Ombre – you name it, she’s done it,” Armstrong said, shaking her head. “Yesterday, her poor brothers went out to play football in the yard and they walked straight into a black and neon green dyed bedsheet drying in the wind. Now they all look like Billie Eilish – damn you, Billie Eilish! What about MY future?”
At press time Armstrong said she was just hoping she could prevent her brothers from messing with any tie-dye designs, especially Galaxy, and from getting into any of the hard powdered procion stuff.
