Fashion
Everything Changes
Make up your mind! Or not!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 06, 2012 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Fashion, Hair Styling, Music, Performance Art, Parody
Shark Shorts
What a shame these only come in kids' sizes. Although I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be with even an image of a shark that close to the 'nads.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 05, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Fashion
Drip-Dry Bullfighters
The invention of the drip-dry matador suit, announced in February 1973, was certainly an important moment in the history of fashion. [The Day (Feb 24 1973), Evening Independing (Mar 27, 1973)]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 02, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Sports, 1970s
Bump Art
According to the Daily Mail, Bump Art is all the rage. This involves pregnant women painting their baby bumps. The Guardian interviews professional bump artist Julia Francis who says that "around 70% of women choose nature-based ideas such as flowers and leaves, a small percentage go for something 'really bizarre', and she has even done a few planets."Well, it sure beats placenta art. I guess us men can always join in the fun by painting our food-baby bumps.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 20, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Fashion, Pregnancy, Stomach
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #26
It is generally understood that the necktie is a symbol of male virility. Thus, when the Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges cut someone's tie off while the fellow is wearing it, it is a symbol of emasculation, and we laugh.
So a necktie that instantly sproings erect on command is surely the best alpha-dog symbol of all! This is why Dilbert rules!
Just don't poke out anybody's eye with that thing!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 15, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Injuries, Johnson Smith Catalog, Sexuality, Chindogu, Pranks
Radio Sunglasses
To hell with iPods! These are so much cooler!
Of course, the online inflation calculator I use says: "What cost $24.95 in 1967 would cost $165.76 in 2011. " Or, in other terms, roughly the cost of a new 8GB iPod Touch.
Maybe modern life is better!
From Playboy for August 1967.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 14, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Music, Technology, Chindogu, 1960s
Toothsome Shoes for Men
Weird Shoes are not just for women! The makers of the apex predator shoes
shown above say they contain 1050 teeth from dentures! At the link you will see on left side that they also make the apex predator suit.
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Fri Oct 12, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Fashion, Shoes
How Not To Model Stockings
This picture ran in the January 1953 issue of Newsweek with the following caption:
Elbeo is still in business, and still selling stockings. Could it seriously never have occurred to anyone there that their fashion show, with "enveloping hoods," was going to look an awful lot like a Klan rally?
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 20, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, 1950s
$290.67 Paper Bag
It's made from coated brown paper. It has stitched seams at each side with two gold-colored metal eyelets at the bottom. But, most importantly, it has the name "Jill Sander" printed at the bottom. This bag could have been yours for only $290.67 -- but you're too late. It's already sold out! [via hypebeast]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 06, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Overpriced Merchandise
Heelless Shoes
Heelless shoes by Antonio Berardi. They'll set you back around £1800, and they look pretty difficult to walk in. Unless, perhaps, you're a habitual toe-walker. via Kingdom of Style.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 27, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes
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