Couture and oh oops a Dancer

Ballini had just finished the last day of her springtime ballet performance and was riding on the high of the success from those performances. It was the day after and she had gone out into the city to go some shopping to celebrate as well as decompress a bit. Due to the big success and knowledge she'll likely be recognized; she had decided to leave her hair down and her ears remained tied but more loosely between her shoulder blades. 

Ballini had pulled on one of her favorite dresses, an off shoulder butterfly sleeves with flowing ruffles that went past her knees and it was in soft blue. Her shoes were pumps with straps criss-crossing up toward her knees; also in matching soft blue. For once, her tail was adorned in silver rings studded with aquamarines and there were a saturn chain connecting between two of the rings. Normally she would add more accessories but she wanted to keep it really simple.

The dancer entered one of her favorite cafes and was extremely grateful that it's low in patrons. She went up to the cashier, made small talk and ordered the creamy beet and tahini dip as well as a tea latte using matcha, frothed milk and vanilla syrup. She settled down at one of comfortable couches with her meal. It had initially surprised her when she was convinced to try the dip and ended up loving it.

 

She was just polishing off her dip when a certain supermodel walked into a cafe. It was a certain blue-purple lust doll who was rather icy as they ordered from the cashier. It was Velveteen. Ballini sipped on her hot drink as she discreetly observe the model. She had just set down her drink and was about to collect her meal to put away when she felt a pair of brown eyes snap in her direction and remain glued to her. Uh-oh. Groaning inwardly she slowly lifted her icy blue eyes upwards to meet the owner. Oh. Velveteen was staring at her.

"You are Ballini, the one who performed in that ballet performance yesterday" Ballini looked surprised that Velveteen had attended

"it was a beautiful performance and you have the body measurements I need for my fashion show tonight. One of my models has called out and you would be the perfect replacement." 

Ballini stared in surprise at their compliment and blatant statement that she was needed.

After some mild arguing, mostly protesting on Ballini's part and insisting on Velveteen's part; they ended up sitting down so the model could eat their order before they headed out to the Vellure Modeling Agency.

 

Ballini's jaw dropped at sight of the SIX outfit changes she would be required to do. Her nerves was quickly eased at reassuring sight of Peter who was handling the jewelry and accessories. She carefully stepped onto the pedestal and swiftly removed her dress so she was in her underwear for Velveteen to measure her body for whatever altering would be necessary. Luckily the only two things that needed altering were her small bust and her hips which were mix of flash and glass. The dancer was grateful that the model did not seem to mind. As the supermodel barked out orders to other employee, Ballini carefully stepped down and sat down on pedestal with one leg crossing over the other. The dancer was able to relax as she observed the way everyone busied themselves around the back room. It was not long before she was being brought back to her dressing room where it was clear that the six outfits had been altered to her needs.

 

"One more thing. We require our models to have hooves for tonight" Velveteen told her and Dollini groaned audibly

"I will need anti slip grips then. My hooves are especially more slippery than my feet" she sighed and received an agreeing nod from the model

"All models including myself will receive a pair. They are of highest quality." They reassured her and Dollini felt rather grateful for the icy model. Who knew they could be rather considerable? 

It was not long before Dollini was getting her hair done in braided half updo with curled hair and her ears were being draped over her shoulders.

The first outfit was a simple sleeveless black buttoned shirt with a keyhole in shape of star and a gold skirt with asymmetrical hemline starting from one thigh to just below of other knee. Much to her chagrin, gold chains adorned in onyx was clicked around her exposed leg. Ballini carefully got to her hooves and was pleased to know that the anti slip grips were indeed of high quality. 

 

With the practiced grace of a true dancer, she strutted her way down the runway, posed with a hand on hip then returned to the dressing room. Several outfit changes later, she was at the end of runaway in a lovely frilly and lacy dress that was translucent along with all of her fellow models and they all bowed deeply as Velveteen came out for the applause. The show was a success and Dollini knew she would be receiving lot more attention over next few weeks.