She’s never seen her shoulder blades in action, but can imagine how they pop from her frame like broken wing stumps here. Julie twists and turns, arms straining back and up to try and reach the zipper of the gown. The attempts are fruitless; each time she lets go of the shimmery bodice at the front it slips down, bunches at her waist, putting her effectively back at square one.
It’s no wonder he calls over the dressing room curtains. She’d wager it’s been over three minutes by now.
“Um…” The filler hangs in silence for a second as she picks the bodice back up in a rustle of fabric. With one hand pinning the front to her body to preserve her modesty, she pulls open the curtain and steps shyly out and into view. “I can’t get it to — close?”
Patience is a virtue and Hamlet is very well versed in it; if there were more hours in the day, more days in her visit, he would be glad to wait here for as long as need be for her to finish up in the dressing room. Tragically, though, there aren’t, and with an infinite amount of gowns to try on at her fingertips, they’re burning daylight.
It may have only been three minutes, but every second counts, here.
Hamlet glances at his phone briefly to check the time -- four thirty four in the afternoon -- and once he hears the sound of the curtain’s metal rings sliding across the rod, looks up. “I think it has a few hooks, that one.” He rises. “Just at the top. Turn around for me and I’ll get them for you.”