Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched
Confessions of an actress seeking reassurance and sleeves as she steps before a live concert audience again.
By Melissa Errico
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The actress and singer Melissa Errico returns to the fitting room for the first time since March 2020. Credit.Landon Nordeman for The New York Times
Here I am, back at the confessional at last.
Forgive me, father, for I have sinned. It has been 13 months since my last visit to you. The father-confessor, to whom I am looking for absolution, is Eric Winterling, one of the great Broadway costume makers, and my confession is that (whisper it!) the pandemic had been unkind to my arms. To be specific, my upper arm in the rear, with a strange new pocket of femininity developing just to the interior of my elbow, on both sides.