When: Friday, August 13th, 2010
Where: Battery Park
What: Dress (H&M Garden Collection), sweater (Gap), shoes (H&M), handbag (Michael Kors)
To help ward off any bad luck last Friday, I decided to go with a fresh floral ensemble. I also found some fun facts about Friday the 13th that I thought I’d share.* Enjoy!
- Fear of Friday the 13th — one of the most popular myths in science — is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
- Many hospitals have no room 13, while some tall buildings skip the 13th floor.
- Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, was born on Friday, April 13, 1866.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt would not travel on the 13th day of any month and would never host 13 guests at a meal.
- Superstitious diners in Paris can hire a quatorzieme, or professional 14th guest.
- Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. “It was bad luck,” Twain later told the friend. “They only had food for 12.”
- The seals on the back of a dollar bill include 13 steps on the pyramid, 13 stars above the eagle’s head, 13 war arrows in the eagle’s claw and 13 leaves on the olive branch. So far there’s been no evidence tying these long-ago design decisions to the present economic situation.
- Yours truly lives on the 13th floor of her NYC apartment building, although the building owners have wisely dubbed it as the Penthouse level.
*I found most of these on the internet, so I can’t really vouch for their validity. You know the drill…
