Just because Jake and I have never seen the inside of a high-society party (we’ve seen medium-high ones, but not the nosebleed ones) doesn’t mean we don’t like to look at the pictures of how the other half socialize in their time off. So when we ran across this Vanity Fair spread of a cocktail party at the Neue Gallerie in NYC, we thought we’d share it with our fellow Dogsters.
Red seems to be the color du jour, and small seems to be the size of the moment. Jake was not thrilled to see only diminutive dogs in attendance. He was going to write the gallery a letter, but in his excitement he realized he had forgotten to take his four-hour nap. Now he’s up again and he doesn’t seem to care that much any more.
But Jake would like to remind people who hold upper-crust society parties involving dogs that they should look to the bible of dog parties when it comes to putting together their canine guest lists. The P.D. Eastman book, Go Dog. Go! describes one of the most successful dog parties of the last century (with an important word bolded Jake):
“A dog party!
A big dog party!
Big dogs, little dogs,
red dogs, blue dogs,
yellow dogs, green dogs,
black dogs, and white dogs
are all at a dog party!
What a dog party!”
