A follow-up to
Paul's post about pop-art fridges. If you're going to start decking out your appliances in designer patterns, you might as well wear matching clothes.
In the early 1960s, Alan Abel ran a long-running hoax involving an organization (
The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals) whose members wanted to put clothes on all the naked animals in the world. So I was amused to discover there was a similar, but non-hoax, campaign back in 1926. The "philanthropic Englishwoman" Mrs. F.K. Hosall spearheaded an effort to get women to donate their old stockings so they could be worn by the donkeys and camels of north Africa. However, it wasn't exactly similar, because it sounds like Mrs. Hosall had a sensible reason to put stockings on the camels — to prevent fly bites.
Source:
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) - Feb 11, 1926.
On September 14, 1967, Scotland Yard held a fashion show to display the new uniforms for policewomen. I suspect this is the ONLY fashion show Scotland Yard has ever held. The caption that ran in
American papers read:
"Scotland Yard, apparently bitten by the swinging London bug, holds fashion show here 9/14. Here, London policewomen display the new Norman Hartnell-designed uniforms. Although a far cry from the miniskirted scene stealers, the new ensembles do have shaped skirts."
Source for top image:
Flickr
1969 ad for Harris Slacks. Back in the 1960s, women evidently found plaid high waters to be irresistible.
[via
flashbak.com, which has a whole gallery of "Swinging Sixties Menswear Adverts for Amorous Playboys"]
Hatanaka, a Japanese maker of plastic food replicas for restaurants, has branched out into the jewelry business. Among the eye-catching fashion accessories it's offering are a spaghetti hairpiece and a curry rice necklace. See more of its jewelry line at
OhGizmo.com. You can
purchase these things from Hatanaka, but it looks like they're currently out of stock.
Back in the 1980s, Betty
Burlan Burian Kirk got the idea of starting a business spinning dog-hair yarn. Her clients were people who "want to wear something from their dog." She said it was "becoming more and more popular."
Has the trend of "wearing your pet" continued to grow in popularity since the 80s? Well, here at WU we've posted before about
people who wear dog-fur sweaters. So maybe it is a popular thing.
And though Betty
Burlan Burian Kirk no longer seems to be in business, a quick google search pulls up plenty of places (such as
here) that'll spin your dog's fur into yarn for you, if that's what floats your boat.
Update: So her middle name is "Burian", not "Burlan". And she's still in business. Her website,
bbkirk.com, offers plenty of info on dog hair — how to collect it, wash it, pricing, etc. Plus, she has a
Gallery of Dog Hair Items.