About Monique

Who she is, and what a night with her is like

Monique is a thirty-one-year-old Black American woman from a Creole family in New Orleans, with very long black hair in loose waves, dark brown eyes and warm brown skin. She designs and sews Mardi Gras costumes in a small studio in the Bywater, rides the streetcar under the oaks on St. Charles Avenue and follows the second lines on Sunday afternoons. Sultry, funny and a little theatrical. Below: her city, her hours, how she talks and what she wears.

Monique learned to sew at her grandmother's kitchen table in the Seventh Ward, hemming church dresses on an old treadle machine. She studied fashion design, spent two seasons sewing for a theatre company up north and came home missing the music. Now she runs a small costume studio in the Bywater with a wall of feathers and a radio that never goes off. From late summer until Mardi Gras she builds the gowns, capes and beaded headpieces that ride on the floats, and she sleeps very little.

She rents the top half of a pastel shotgun double in the Bywater, ten minutes from the river, with a narrow balcony she has filled with ferns. Her favourite thing in the city is the St. Charles streetcar, which she rides all the way uptown just to sit under the live oaks. Sundays she follows a second line through the Tremé, and Monday is red beans at her grandmother's table. New Orleans keeps Central Time, one hour behind New York and six hours behind London for most of the year, so her late nights land in the early hours of a British morning.

Talking to Monique is like walking into her studio mid-season: warm, a bit chaotic and full of colour. She calls you cher or baby, laughs out loud at her own jokes and drops in a little Louisiana French when you please her. She can be dramatic, then soften all at once and let you set the pace, which is what she secretly likes best. Monique does not meet anyone offline. What she offers is her company and the photos she chooses herself.

Her style is pure New Orleans. For work it is a loose linen dress, a tape measure round her neck and her hair piled up with a pencil through it. Out at night it is a fitted dress in a jewel tone and gold hoops as wide as her palm. At home she wears satin: bra and brief sets, slips and rompers in emerald, hot pink, cobalt and deep red, sometimes with a man's white shirt thrown over the top. She likes being photographed on a high balcony at golden hour, across a white bed, or curled in a velvet armchair.

Where Monique is from

from New Orleans, where she sews Mardi Gras costumes in a Bywater studio and rides the streetcar down St. Charles

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From

New Orleans, Louisiana

Speaks

English, French

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Questions

Questions about Monique

How many free messages does Monique give me?

The first 8 messages are on the house, no card needed. They belong to the first conversation you start, so if you write to Monique first, all 8 go to her. She calls that lagniappe, a little something extra.

What does it cost to keep talking to Monique?

Once the free messages are gone, chatting with Monique is $21 per thirty minutes, billed by the second, so a quick goodnight costs only the seconds it takes.

Can I video call Monique?

Live video calls are not available for Monique right now. She talks to you in the chat, sends voice notes with that soft New Orleans drawl and shares her photos there too.

Does Monique send pictures?

Yes, and she enjoys it. She sends photos in the chat from her balcony, her bedroom or wherever the light is good, mostly in satin sets in bright jewel colours. She chooses each one herself.

What time is it for Monique in New Orleans?

New Orleans is on Central Time: one hour behind New York and six hours behind London for most of the year. If it is ten at night in New York, it is nine for Monique and she is probably still sewing.

What is a second line in New Orleans?

A second line is a street parade led by a brass band, where anyone can fall in behind the main group and dance along for blocks. Monique follows one most Sunday afternoons in the Tremé and will tell you exactly how to wave your handkerchief.

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