The ROICHEN EASY TRAY "helps you to stock and pull out your clothes without making a mess" and is an instant classic in the annals of weird advertising. Read the rest “Otherwise professional ad with native English voiceover uses machine-translated script”
My wife started giving me Calvin Klein boxer briefs for gifts a while ago, and now they are my favorite. No weird tags or seams to irritate my tender skin, and the elastic doesn't wear out and create the droopy drawers effect. Amazon has a sale on a 2-pack for $17. Read the rest “Best boxer briefs: Calvin Klein”
Amber Sherlock, a television personality in Australia, was angry that a colleague, Julie Snook, wore clothes almost the same color as her own. On-camera, with the screen split and an increasingly alarmed and discomfited guest looking on—also wearing white!—she insisted Snook change her attire and did not commence the segment until she had done so. Read the rest “Wear a same-color outfit as Australian TV presenter Amber Sherlock at your peril”
YourSassyGrandma on Etsy is selling the Sexy Ugly Christmas Sweater for $50. Read the rest “Sexy ugly Christmas sweater”
My taste in clothes is simple. I usually wear blue denim Levis, Native Jefferson rubber shoes without socks, and plain T-shirts. Since I love ion Southern California, I can pretty much get away with wearing this outfit year round.
I used to buy Calvin Klein T-shirts, but earlier this year I bought a 4-pack of Fruit of the Loom pocket T-shirts for $(removed) and decided I liked them better than the Calvin Kleins (which cost at least $(removed) each). The Fruits are 100% cotton, and made of thin fabric, which I like more than thick fabric, and they hold up well over time. The pocket is perfect for storing a deck of cards or flat magic tricks, too! Read the rest “Fruit of the Loom Men's 4-pack of pocket T-shirts”
That's Bertha Boronda in the lower left square. I'm not sure if her proud look reflects her satisfaction of having the biggest hat or successfully cut off her unfaithful husband's penis with a straight razor in 1908.
Female inmates of San Quentin State Prison and their very fine hats Read the rest “Fabulous hats of San Quentin State Prison women inmates”
Hana from Unplugged Studio upcycles new and vintage clothes mixed with comics-themed prints to make great, nerdy women's wear: Wonder Woman lace thong, Captain America partially-lined tee, vintage Levi's TMNT shorts, vintage Marvel Wrangler shorts. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest “Upcycling with comics fabric makes for great nerdy women's wear”
Most jeans outfit for motorcycling look bad and fit worse. I tried two popular options, Hood Motorcycle Jean's G8 Evo and Bohn's Adventure Pants. Seriously: Adventure Pants. Read the rest “Motorcycle Jeans and Adventure Pants”
If I could, I'd live in loungewear: pajamas, bathrobes, etc. If there's one thing that makes a terry bathrobe even more comfy, it's a hood. And if there's one thing that makes a hooded terry bathrobe even more cool, it's eye-holes and Captain America livery so that you can hang around on the sofa all day in your robe, rising only to role-play moments from the new Captain America movie, which is really quite good despite several egregiously stupid plot-points involving computers and the Internet, which I will be detailing at great length when I get an afternoon free to do so.
The robe's from Thinkgeek, it's 100% cotton, and it costs $70. It's got Captain America's shield embroidered on the back!
Captain America Terry Robe Read the rest “Captain America bathrobe with hood/mask”
Wardrobe mannequins have been around since the days of King Tutankhamen, and have been freaking out people ever since. Hunter Oatman-Stanford of Collector's Weekly has an excellent brief history of these silent, ever-vigilant dwellers of the Uncanny Valley.
Cynthia’s face remained completely blank, wearing that same empty stare at the theater, Bergdorf’s, a private dinner party, and even her regular hair salon. Everywhere she went, Cynthia tantalized the paparazzi and her adoring public—always seen on the arm of the fashionable Lester Gaba, wearing the runway’s latest styles and enjoying New York nightlife to the fullest—but still her gaze revealed nothing.
Of course, that’s because Cynthia was a mannequin, crafted by Gaba to promote his retail display business. In 1937, Gaba’s irreverent experiment captivated the public by spotlighting our larger fixation with mannequins, made up of a strange blend of adoration, emulation, discomfort, and sometimes even terror. Cynthia was merely the descendant of a long line of mannequins, whose idealized bodies gave shape to our materialist fantasies at least since the time of the Egyptians.
What mannequins say about us Read the rest “What mannequins say about us”
On Monday night I had dinner with Jesse Genet, the founder of Lumi, a company that makes photographic fabric dye called Inkodye. She was wearing a shirt with an Inkodye print on it. This stuff is amazing! Jesse made the above entertaining video that shows the process of making a photographic print. I just ordered a starter kit. I can't wait to try it out. Read the rest “Inkodye: cool alternative to traditional screenprinting”
Tsarina's tshark shocks resemble sharks that are gnawing off the wearer's feet. They come with knit, velcro-attachable remoras! The comments are full of people begging to buy a pair of these, but there's no indication at this point that they are for sale, either as patterns or finished articles.
The shark theme has been done, of course; this, however, is the Tshark theme…
… and as such it is intended to go farther over the top, and deeper under the bottom, than your average sea-going pedator. (Check out my shiny new neologism that I just this minute made up! “Pedator” - a predator that is worn on the foot, geddit?)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe….
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Read the rest “Shark socks that appear to be devouring your legs”
Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: these terrific Johnny Cupcakes tees, entitled the "Lycanthriller." The site lists the men's tee as sold out, but the woman's edition is in stock. They had both at the booth. Read the rest “Fat werewolf eating a cupcake in a Michael Jackson "Thriller" jacket tee”
Rufus Roo jackets are designed to help you beat airline luggage limits (given that they seem to be British, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this was inspired by the awful RyanAir, which treats travelling with luggage as an oligarch-grade luxury and charges accordingly). It's designed to let you carry your shoes, changes of clothes, laptop, reading material, and wine and food in a series of pockets stitched throughout.
Stylish wearable luggage ideal for Holidays and Short Breaks, great for carrying the kids stuff, Commuting to work, Shopping without bags, travelling to Music Festivals or to Sports events.
Lightweight* in a range of sizes comfortably fits most adults or children when worn over clothes and fully loaded.
(via Oh Gizmo) Read the rest “Rufus Roo: a bag-of-holding coat for beating airline luggage limits”
Screenshots from the "Sweatshirt Monster" episode of Leave it to Beaver (1962).
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"This is what she would have wanted – for her fans to have her clothes," Mitch [Winehouse] told the crowd. Read the rest “Clothes given to Winehouse fans”
