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Lovely Femme-Fan in
C H A I N		M A I L
There is a lo-o-o-o-ng story about this picture.... (story told by Hal Haag)
The year was 1983, I had never heard much about fandom (hadn't heard about the Baltimore WorldCon that year either), but was into D&D somewhat. I was also into computers. My friend, Art Blumberg, with whom I shared an interest in D&D and computers, asked to borrow my computer for a weekend in exchange for "membership" to something called a science fiction convention known as Balticon. He neglected to tell me when this event was to take place (or I, typically, neglected to remember when he might have said it was to be ). The following year on Good Friday, my 13 year old son (Evan) and I decided to play "tourist" and take our cameras down to the Inner Harbor and take pictures of the relatively new pavilions in the Inner Harbor. We were taking a short cut thru the Hyatt Regency Hotel when we noticed a lot of people milling about in costumes, notably a Persian Slave-Trader in the traditional puffy-sleeved shirt, baggy pantaloons, sash, turban and pointy-toed shoes leading a female "slave" who was dressed in a chain-mail bikini and a smile. When my son and I reached the bottom of the escalator we were riding, we realized that the slave girl had reached the top of the other escalator and we still had cameras (as yet unused) still strapped to our wrists. Being careful not to trip over our tongues :-), we bolted up the escalator to find her, to discover the convention that Art had told us about. We bought memberships to the convention and stayed to enjoy the festivities, but we never saw the young lady in the chain mail bikini again that year.
Two years later, during Balticon 20, I was running the computer gaming room by this time, and one of my gamers rushed into the computer room exclaiming "She's here! She's here!" "Who's here?" I asked. "The girl in the chain mail bikini!!" (You see, by this time I had told this story many times to many people...) I grabbed my now ever-present camera and rushed out on to the mezzanine balcony to be greeted by the lovely young femme fan seen above who greeted me with "I hear you have been looking for me!" To my reply in the affirmative, she asked "How would you like me to pose?" The above picture is the result of this meeting.
To answer your obvious question, No, I don't know her name. I would like to give her credit here, and if anybody out there can correctly identify her, I will do so on this page.

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