Literally Awful
All right, so maybe Lady Chatterley didn’t walk around in kooky leg warmers with an old slip wedged up her ass. But you try being completely and implicitly inspired by a book you’ve never read.
All right, so maybe Lady Chatterley didn’t walk around in kooky leg warmers with an old slip wedged up her ass. But you try being completely and implicitly inspired by a book you’ve never read.
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December 3, 2009 at 11:08 am
I think what the (debatable) designer meant was that if a landscape technician saw a young lady wandering about in this outfit, he would want her instantly and somehow also know that she wanted him, too. Or anyone, really.
December 3, 2009 at 11:08 am
She was inspired by a (great, btw) novel that she never read to make a hideous outfit?
December 3, 2009 at 11:09 am
I can’t even think of anything clever to respond to this. Her idiot description pretty much destroyed my brain.
December 3, 2009 at 11:11 am
… “i’ve never read this but i don’t think it’s a classic and i made this shitpile b/c of it.”
alrighty then.
December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am
Seems more apt that it be described as “udderly inspired”.
December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am
She probably doesn’t know how to read.
This is an issue that hits close to home with me, because, in fact — I don’t know how to read either, and I divert attention from that by bunching my dresses up and shoving them down the front of my underwear.
December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am
I see a one winged Chicken all dressed up with no place to go.
December 3, 2009 at 11:12 am
Next time read the Cliff Notes, or at least get the DVD from Netflix.
December 3, 2009 at 11:13 am
Seller’s in Malaysia; this is going to be on the front racks at Walmart next spring.
December 3, 2009 at 11:13 am
What the blue fuck was she thinking? It’s an offence against ‘clothing’ and D.H. Lawrence – who must be spinning in his grave.
December 3, 2009 at 11:13 am
this makes my eyes want to retire from public life
December 3, 2009 at 11:14 am
HOW can you be inspired by something you’ve never read?? She envisioned this while she was actualizing something…or something…maybe I need to go have a few drinks and try reading that description again.
December 3, 2009 at 11:16 am
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December 3, 2009 at 11:16 am
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29846670 Okay, so not only can this chick not sew. But she doesn’t read, either.
If you’re going to use historic figures to pimp your unwearable trash, at least learn something about them first!
December 3, 2009 at 11:16 am
Create
Ugly
Stupid
Top
One of a kind
Mystery Shit
December 3, 2009 at 11:16 am
Check the copyright… (that means absolutely NO copying of my work or my style of writing, thanks very much)… No worries there… Oops… Did I just copy your style of writing?
December 3, 2009 at 11:16 am
“#8 Recovering Crack Baby :
I see a one winged Chicken all dressed up with no place to go.”
That’s OK, because I know where you can get a 2-winged hat to go with it!
December 3, 2009 at 11:17 am
She hasn’t read ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’, but I bet she’s seen ‘Pretty in Pink’…
December 3, 2009 at 11:18 am
Clothing
Unbelievably
Sewn
To
Offend
Masses
December 3, 2009 at 11:18 am
am i the only one disturbed that lady chatterley is an eleven year old girl from malaysia?
December 3, 2009 at 11:21 am
Is this what they mean by hobo chic? One bra cup is way more saggy than the other.
December 3, 2009 at 11:22 am
The sad thing is, the jewelry she creates in her other shop is amazing.
December 3, 2009 at 11:24 am
@ 7 addiosix
LOL… that’s what caught my attention too!
I just figured she was incredibly hungry. Not only is her ass munching that veil-like thing, but the front is getting sucked in through her belly button O.o
December 3, 2009 at 11:26 am
I can’t wait to see kind of inspiration she gets after not reading “Lolita” and “Fanny Hill.”
December 3, 2009 at 11:27 am
I kind of like the stockings/legwarmers, which unfortunately I guess are not part of it.
December 3, 2009 at 11:28 am
#15 Dynomoose, THANK YOU! I was just looking at that one and WTF’d out loud.
Looking through her shop, I’m not seeing much of anything that’s actually “vintage” or “Edwardian” lace. It all looks like cheap ass lace to me.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34826206
I’ve yet to locate accordion-pleat anything on this….thing.
December 3, 2009 at 11:31 am
My English degree wants to jump off my office wall and slap her in the face.
TIP: When you’re an idiot, don’t admit that you’re an idiot.
December 3, 2009 at 11:32 am
The one sleeve — the under-boob fringe crap — the, wth, bridal veil stuffed into her underwear in back? — the scrunched-up lookit-mah-coochie split in the front –
Oh, wait, maybe her inspiration from not reading a great book led her to not make a wearable garment. Aha.
And is it just me, or does that girl look like she’s about to jump off a ledge?
December 3, 2009 at 11:32 am
Filed in: Age Inappropriate, Child & Textile Exploitation
December 3, 2009 at 11:38 am
On a note of the pure style of this thing (forgetting that it’s the color of baby shit and sort of resembles a paisley-eyed insect vomiting lace), that bunching at the front makes it look like the model is pregnant or has a pot belly.
December 3, 2009 at 11:39 am
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December 3, 2009 at 11:39 am
So many questions? Can I convo her?
C.U.S.T.O.M.? W.T.F. does this mean?
Was she present when we cleaned out my grandma’s dresser after she died?
Why didn’t she pull the dress out of her crotch before she took the picture?
Is she going to use the $129.00 to finally get off the streets?
I guess I’ll have to wait until Monday.
December 3, 2009 at 11:40 am
Copious
Ugly
Shit
Tacked
Onto
My ass.
December 3, 2009 at 11:45 am
Sheesh, at least say you snuck downstairs to watch the Skinemax version while your parents were asleep.
December 3, 2009 at 11:45 am
“SHEELA GOH COUTURE is Decided Decadence meets Flamboyant Frippery.”
I just.. uh.. what?
December 3, 2009 at 11:46 am
#24 Sammy the Goose : OMG, what if she doesn’t read Justine or 120 Days of Sodom?
December 3, 2009 at 11:48 am
#36 yep, Justine is one I was thinking she should not read next, or the Story of O.
December 3, 2009 at 11:49 am
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December 3, 2009 at 11:51 am
#36 Now, I haven’t read 120 Days of Sodom, but that sounds like a great inspiration for an outfit. I will be sure to never read it now, so I can design it.
December 3, 2009 at 11:57 am
Actually, I’m going to disagree with the majority rule and say that I am actually glad she’s not pretending to have actually read…anything. Ever. At least this way we can’t say she wasted any sort of education on making this hideous pile of shit. Or, really, any of her hideous piles of shit.
December 3, 2009 at 11:57 am
You can almost see the face of Satan, the bra cups as eyes and the A-line lace trim as the fashion-damnation frown.
December 3, 2009 at 11:58 am
She looks she’s been mercilessly attacked by static cling. She utterly and implicitly needs to experience the actualisation of some Bounce in her dryer.
December 3, 2009 at 11:58 am
#36 Dynomoose – Let’s pray she reads them and doesn’t get inspired.
December 3, 2009 at 11:58 am
On a separate note: I would like to point out that this 11 year old Malaysian girl who clearly is marginally literate can spell Lucrezia Borgia correctly, whereas we’ve seen several “teachers” in the United States who can’t spell *anything* correctly.
Ponder that, and all its deeper meanings. No whut I meen?
December 3, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I waiver between being able to laugh at how stupid people are and crying because there are really quite an overwhelming amount of stupid people on the planet.
shit. not tryin’ to bring down the mood or nothin’
December 3, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Wait a minute…this looks kind of familiar…I think this might be a still from one of those Law & Order:SVU episodes where they break up an underage sex slave ring usually fronted by a pervy Romanian mafia guy.
Or it could just be the legwarmers…
December 3, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I love that DH Lawrence’s work is the ‘debateable’ part here.
Though, I haven’t read it either, something for me to keep in mind I guess!
December 3, 2009 at 12:03 pm
In all actuality, when I first laid eyes on this lovely intellectually thought out piece of fashion design I was instantly enraptured. The flowing lines and graceful movement of the lace fluttering from the pubescent breast made me think immediately of the book Lady Chat..er…ly…….
December 3, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Yes, this is “Flamboyant Frippery” as indicated in your shop announcement, but I think it’s more than that. I’d call it “Flamboyant Whimsicle Frippery Fuckery”.
December 3, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Flamboyant Frippery… Sounds like an alcoholic cocktail. I bet she had a few too many fripperies and got decidedly fuckeried before she made this.
December 3, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Who is she kidding? Showgirls don’t wear tops!
December 3, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I feel bad for that vintage apron that was sorta tacked on as an afterthought. It never asked to be a sleeve.
December 3, 2009 at 12:10 pm
This is what happens when you cover yourself in Astroglide and roll around in the Victoria’s Secret reject pile…
December 3, 2009 at 12:12 pm
For the love of God, if you’re not gonna read the book, at least read the Classics Illustrated comic book! I learned my lesson in 6th grade, when I tried to present an oral book report on Treasure Island based solely on the cover of the book: “And there’s this pirate guy, and he only has one leg, and he throws his crutch at this other guy, and it hits him in the back…”
December 3, 2009 at 12:17 pm
She really needs to read the book. Dear me. The youth, the youth! These are the people that are going to inherit the earth. (I sound like my mother, shit)
December 3, 2009 at 12:27 pm
You know, this could have been a cute nightie if she’d left off the whimsicle fuckery and stuck with “gown with boob ornaments”. What a travesty.
December 3, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Looks like loads and LOADS of toilet paper hanging from her ass
December 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Access to the sewing machine needs to be prohibited.
But at least there are no Twilight inspired outfits…yet….
December 3, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Oh man. I just realized that the reason I thought it would have been a cute nightie is because she used a vintage slip as the base. HAHAHAHA.
December 3, 2009 at 12:33 pm
This would be kind of insulting to me..someone is inspired by my work but never actually seen it/read it!?!
WTF..that’s not right.
Are the top and the stockings supposed to go together? Fashion crime is what it is..
plain and simple.
December 3, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I’m almost grateful that the collision of fabrics, prints, textures and lines make it difficult to tell exactly what that, er, ‘garment’ is supposed to be. I’ll stick with pretending it’s meant to be the Demon from the Bottom of the Scrap Bag, because the alternative is more disturbing.
December 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm
#56 — What do you want to bet that she *has* read Twilight?
December 3, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I think she read “Lady Gaga’s Donation Bin” and misunderstood.
December 3, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I could see this inspired by Madam Bovary maybe. But Lady Chatterley’s Lover??? pfft. Never.
December 3, 2009 at 12:41 pm
#55 – she destroys fabric all without the use of a machine!
“I stitch, with needle and thread.
In part because I feel more in control of my actions but largely because I *just* know I’ll run the sewing machine across my hand if I owned one.”
Maybe that would be for the best, dear.
December 3, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Wow, this one hits the jackpot!
1) Bad writing.
2) Ignorance (never read the book).
3) Bad spelling.
4) Malapropism.
5) Clueless artsy-fartsy-ness.
6) Product that looks suspiciously like the box of rags I keep in the garage for cleaning bike parts.
December 3, 2009 at 12:50 pm
i’m amazed that she sold this one of a kind item already…back in march…
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=14728473
December 3, 2009 at 12:52 pm
omgsh you’re right, her jewelry is incredible
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23259106
i like her cuffs too but for that price i hope you get 2
December 3, 2009 at 12:55 pm
So I have to admit, I almost missed this jem when I clicked over to the product description on her etsy page:
“There’s embroidery on one side of the bodice and lavish embellishments of Fresh Water Pearls on 14K Gold Filled Headpins. Afterall, Lady Chatterley did have money.”
Really, REALLY?! Remember when you told us you hadn’t read the book…
December 3, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Somebody got their whimsicle fuckery caught in the Cuisinart.
December 3, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Always an excellent idea to base something on something you have no clue about.
December 3, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The whole thing makes me wonder if it’s not a front for child prostitution.
December 3, 2009 at 1:04 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Mmmm, the jewelry is pretty, but she doesn’t know much about the stones or their proper uses — just enough to babble on in foofy language about them. And please — if you don’t know French, don’t try to use it to make your work sound sexier. Glaring errors aren’t sexy.
December 3, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Oh for the love of an accent – check out this dress:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29572825
I see a glint of Lame too….
December 3, 2009 at 1:44 pm
The pose demands a “View on bow of Titanic” option.
December 3, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I think if you wear this, and walk down the street, everyone will think that you have the biggest camel-toe this world has ever seen.
December 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 2:24 pm
This post is inspired by Moby Dick, I never read it, but I think this post captures the essence of it. Whale.
December 3, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I took at look at her jewelry shop.
Just check out the feedback rant she spouted in her feedback “left for others” to the customer who purchased the wonderfully named “oOo WITHER THOU, WUTHERING HEIGHTS” item.
http://www.etsy.com/feedback_public.php?user_id=97619&feedback_type=for_others&page=2
Crikey.
December 3, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I’m thinking after the exhausted little girls get off work at Kathie Lee’s sweatshop, they go to work for Sheela where she promises them modeling careers for a few hours of cross-eyed cross-stitching.
December 3, 2009 at 2:36 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 2:58 pm
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of the classics. My shelves and cupboards dip in their centres from all the titles I’ve collected over the years. Each a mastery of literary expression, every single tome is worth far more than its weight in gold.
And yet, as I’m certain is the case with all aficionados of the written word, there are certain opuscules which are more firmly entrenched in the forefront of our consciousness than others.”
Look up the word opuscule, please…
December 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I really want someone famous to buy this and wear it on the red carpet. Bjork, maybe, or Perez Hilton.
December 3, 2009 at 3:10 pm
How can it be “utterly and implicitly” inspired by something she has never read? And furthermore how can she claim its “debatable” when she doesnt know what the debate is?
December 3, 2009 at 4:23 pm
What’s with the tutu hangin’ out her ass?
December 3, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Ahhh, you see, THIS is what happens when you’re too lazy to clean out the pockets before putting everything in the dryer…. gum, glue, crayons… wait a minute!!?! Where the hell did these panties come from???
December 3, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I always knew Tinkerbell was a hooker!
December 3, 2009 at 4:53 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 6:07 pm
She looks like she’s constipated and forgot to remove the wad of toilet paper out of her ass. Seriously! My 20 month old braces herself against walls like that when she’s trying to poop!
December 3, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I actually like her stuff, especially the Innocent Libertine dress…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=29572825
Though I will say not all of her stuff is great, I like her overall style. Have I gone mad?
December 3, 2009 at 6:26 pm
I can wear this layered with my pillowcase bell bottoms and granny montanny tutu
December 3, 2009 at 9:18 pm
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December 3, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Clearly the back piece is protection should she shart.
December 3, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Wow. That static cling is a bitch.
December 3, 2009 at 10:22 pm
she’s that middle aged whimsicle forest faerie’s daughter. Remember her perched on a rock a while back?
December 3, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Good Lord, it’s like a discount fabric store vomited and now she’s trying to sell it… and for 130 bucks, no less! I know you’re bitter because you’re illiterate, woman, but don’t take it out on us!
December 4, 2009 at 3:13 am
My mother worried about my little sister for making this kind of crap for her Barbie dolls. Of course my little sister was in elementary school at the time. On the other hand, she also didn’t read Lady Chatterley’s Lover yet, either.
December 4, 2009 at 3:15 am
http://romandiaz.net/lady_marmalade_shoot.jpg
December 4, 2009 at 7:09 am
I just looked at THIS hideous thing…don’t know what was more scary, the necklace or her overly-lenghty description…wake me up when it’s over…*yawn*
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21646347
ps-it looks like a hand turkey, not a peacock feather-best part? it’s on sale b/c I guess she figured 143 was way too much to spend on a piece of painted bedazzled cardboard
December 4, 2009 at 7:12 am
bwha ha ha- don’t flatter yourself, honey…
“©2009 SHEELA GOH (that means absolutely NO copying of my work or my style of writing – imitation is truly NOT flattery here, thank you very much).”
December 4, 2009 at 10:57 am
check out the sold section of her “Eclettica” shop, i’m actually quite inspired, and relieved she has a marketable skill:
http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=22286004
December 4, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I’m not sure what’s more suprising: the fact that she persuaded the model to have her picture taken in it, or the fact that she expects someone to pay 129 FUCKING DOLLARS for what looks to be a poorly assembled collection of scraps from the bottom of her sewing box!
December 5, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I love the disclaimer on this http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=29846670
‘©2006-2009 Sheela Goh (that means absolutely NO copying of my work or my style of writing, thanks very much). ‘
when she’s lifted the first 2 paras verbatim from Wikipedia…
December 7, 2009 at 11:45 am
I must be looking at the wrong jewelry, because it just looks like overcomplicated crap only an elderly Brooklyn woman would wear
Maybe I’ll buy something for my mom
January 10, 2010 at 11:00 am
As dreadful as this nightmare is, it is likely to be what the poor soul sees in her dreams. On her blog, virtually 100% of the historical text is cut-and-pasted, without attribution, from Wikipedia. The only original parts (other than the oh-so-decadent-artsy frou-frou)are where she confesses to deep depression and hallucinations. This explains a lot, but I still feel sorry for the poor thing.
January 10, 2010 at 12:19 pm
But OK, this still made me laugh out loud:
“Designs, Literature & Imagery ©2007-2009 Eclettica The Atêlier”
You can copyright your “imagery”? Even when you copied it from someone else in the first place? Who knew?