“Object for sale. Occupies space. Exists. Beyond that is all up to you. Existential question of object’s form and purpose can become your problem for under $35.”
Radical Militant Librarian
March 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm
“I’m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.
A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!
It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove. It’s a hat.
But it has OTHER uses. Yes, far beyond that.
You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets!
Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!”
With the placement of the doily and the fringe, it looks like a severely borked up one-eyed monster with bad teeth, who’s probably whispering “kill me” because his creator brought him to life before he was finished.
Sudabaki, regarding your earlier comment, maybe she meant “Scissor Sisters”…no wait, I think they’re cool and that would be giving this fugly thing a compliment.
Nevermind.
Raz, thanks. #5 greenfuzz, 22 Cineaste and I were all on the same track. I thought it looked like a monster the moment I saw it. If only had more time.
Helen, if I knew who was the Regretsy “police” I would tell them off personally. Alas, I don’t, so I will just agree w/ Suda and say please keep up the good work!
Sudabaki, congrats on COTD!
(to Imagine by john lennon)
Imagine there’s a doily
Sewn to a pillowcase
No front, back or armholes
Unless i’m completely off base
Imagine all the great ways
This scrap heap could be worn…
Imagine all the choices
It’s awful hard to do
No style or occasion
And no reason too
Imagine all the crazy
possibilitieeees…
The first thought I had about the doily was someone must of told her to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Therfore, attaching a sun looking object to show ‘em.
Too bad about the asshats. Thought that post was particularly funny, especially having had children do that exact same attention-getting bs…to clarify, NEVER while having photos taken of me in too tight clothes. Just when I was on the phone…
Damn, now I wanna know what an asshat looks like? I have visualized an assclown but never an asshat. I did not know we had Regretsy, Etsy Stalker’s, AKA asshats.
#14 Radical Militant Librarian
Are you by chance the Official Radical Militant Librarian of the Stephanie Miller Show? If so, I greatly admire your “Guess the Quotes” and other related work.
At least no truffula trees appear to have been harmed in making this…product.
Although she does say she hasn’t dyed it from it’s natural color…I’m not sure what the “natural” color of a slip is, but I guess that’s just one more thing I missed while I had mono in high school…..
Ironically, I don’t remember seeing any ass-hats on Regretsy yet. Only a matter of time though. Seems like an appropriate accessory for a skants ensemble…
Looks like it was “inspired” by random memory fragments stolen from somebody born in the 70s… My great-grandma had gold doily-coasters a lot like that, and I’m pretty sure I was given dolls with clothes made out of similar fabric. (Holly Hobby? Raggedy Ann?)
Also HK I beg to differ that this is Plan B. If you’re taking Plan B you’re already knocked up… yep this shit is safer than a chastity belt: NO SISTER is seeing ANY action in this cock blocker!
What’s really sad is that things like this–vintage fabrics and lace, etc–can be so beautiful if well done. And instead, all I ever see look like like a rag bag crazy quilt, but involving less sewing skill. (that said, those fabrics may not have ever found attractive ways to be upcycled, no matter the skill of the designer. And DEAR LORD never on the same canvas.)
Looks like the seller forgot to add a sheet of fabric softener when she threw all the vintage stuff in the dryer and when it came out all stuck together like this, she thought, screw it, I have no other use for it, I’ll just sew it all together and see what kind of sap will buy it.
Ya know…that skirt would look great with the Miracle whip necklace!
Someone out there has to put the entire outfit together…this skirt, the miracle whip necklace and the Siegfried and Roy white tiger hat! I’d pay to see someone wearing all that stuff!
I agree with Dix. Not just a waste of nice Vintage textiles but the seller doesn’t own an iron or know how to use one. What possessed this person to think this is pretty? The seller threw hankies, trim, and doilies at the fabric and sewed them on where they landed.
March 9, 2010 at 4:31 pm
“Object for sale. Occupies space. Exists. Beyond that is all up to you. Existential question of object’s form and purpose can become your problem for under $35.”
March 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Did she bribe some Pre-School kids to do her work for her?
March 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Unfortunately, this skirt/slip/thing(?) took the same level of sewing skills that I currently possess.
Fortunately, I am aware of how crappy a seamstress I am; therefore, I do not sell on Etsy.
March 9, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Careful planning may have gone into the skirt but not the actual listing of it
Scrapsisers Original Slip Skirt
So is it sisters or sisers? Is that the French way to spell scissors?
March 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I’m seeing a one eyed frowny sort of face here. Photoshop possibilites?
What if this became a fabric pattern? very meta.
March 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Rumor has it that, that may be Frances next flag.
March 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I have so always wanted to wear a calendar on my ass.
March 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
It’s a quantum skirt. It can be many things but that will change if you observe it. Which is fine because I have no desire to observe it at all.
March 9, 2010 at 4:36 pm
If only I could see it on a dummy. Or something.
March 9, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Careful planning?! More like miscellanious dryer static cling
March 9, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I hear this is ultra-risque in Lancaster county.
March 9, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I can barely begin to digest what might have happened had she not had a plan.
March 9, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Do you know why it isn’t shown on a model? Shall I tell you? Because no one must ever wear this… thing. NEVER. Under any circumstances.
March 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm
We could also burn it for fuel.
March 9, 2010 at 4:44 pm
“I’m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed.
A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need!
It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove. It’s a hat.
But it has OTHER uses. Yes, far beyond that.
You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets!
Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!”
I’m sure this *isn’t* what Dr Seuss had in mind…
March 9, 2010 at 4:45 pm
If I can wear it as Skants then I like it.
March 9, 2010 at 4:49 pm
@#4 Suda: I’m thinking CrapShitters.
March 9, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I see this thing as a result of a little game called ‘pin the doiley on the schmata’
March 9, 2010 at 4:50 pm
“You’ll be the only one wearing this one!!”
Of this I am sure.
March 9, 2010 at 4:50 pm
I forgot to add the ‘blindfolded’ part
March 9, 2010 at 4:52 pm
btw they sell this same skirt at anthropologie for $200.
March 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm
With the placement of the doily and the fringe, it looks like a severely borked up one-eyed monster with bad teeth, who’s probably whispering “kill me” because his creator brought him to life before he was finished.
March 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm
It looks like a pile of textiles at a estate sale shoved in some musty old trunk that smells like mothballs!
March 9, 2010 at 5:03 pm
This makes me wonder if my grandma went from a glass of wine now and then on to meth
March 9, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Scrap Sisters=CrapSisters
March 9, 2010 at 5:05 pm
March 9, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Sudabaki, regarding your earlier comment, maybe she meant “Scissor Sisters”…no wait, I think they’re cool and that would be giving this fugly thing a compliment.
Nevermind.
March 9, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Suda, that photoshop fuckery was awesomesauce
March 9, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Here’s a jean jacket to go with that ugly rusty denim skirt from a while back…
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30878920
March 9, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Raz, thanks. #5 greenfuzz, 22 Cineaste and I were all on the same track. I thought it looked like a monster the moment I saw it. If only had more time.
March 9, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Where did Pepto Dismal go? Too risqué? I never got to see Skully’s twitpic that everyone was admiring
March 9, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I took it down because some asshats sent her nasty
email.
I must tell you, the self-appointed Regretsy Police who contact and harass featured sellers are my least favorite part of doing this site.
March 9, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Created with Love? Or with utter disdain?
March 9, 2010 at 5:25 pm
#30 Helen Killer: Well shit. Please don’t ever let that dissuade you though. The world would be much grimmer without cum covered cat balls.
March 9, 2010 at 5:28 pm
@Suda congrats on COTD!
March 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Helen, if I knew who was the Regretsy “police” I would tell them off personally. Alas, I don’t, so I will just agree w/ Suda and say please keep up the good work!
Sudabaki, congrats on COTD!
March 9, 2010 at 5:41 pm
(to Imagine by john lennon)
Imagine there’s a doily
Sewn to a pillowcase
No front, back or armholes
Unless i’m completely off base
Imagine all the great ways
This scrap heap could be worn…
Imagine all the choices
It’s awful hard to do
No style or occasion
And no reason too
Imagine all the crazy
possibilitieeees…
March 9, 2010 at 5:46 pm
@curly, how funny…I was just watching this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAHFrLAxzM
March 9, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I’m so terribly confused.
March 9, 2010 at 5:56 pm
The first thought I had about the doily was someone must of told her to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Therfore, attaching a sun looking object to show ‘em.
March 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Too bad about the asshats. Thought that post was particularly funny, especially having had children do that exact same attention-getting bs…to clarify, NEVER while having photos taken of me in too tight clothes. Just when I was on the phone…
March 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Damn, now I wanna know what an asshat looks like? I have visualized an assclown but never an asshat. I did not know we had Regretsy, Etsy Stalker’s, AKA asshats.
March 9, 2010 at 5:59 pm
@curly, you made me snort out loud with laughter, ala Crissy Snow. Nicely done.
March 9, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Yay #24
March 9, 2010 at 6:20 pm
I love this place!
March 9, 2010 at 6:21 pm
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March 9, 2010 at 6:32 pm
When Gramma started dressing like this, we carted her off to Shady Pines.
March 9, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Project Runway called. . . You are OUT. . . You must pack up your things and leave.
March 9, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Oh, and where’s the crying naked child when you need it?
March 9, 2010 at 7:24 pm
#14 Radical Militant Librarian
Are you by chance the Official Radical Militant Librarian of the Stephanie Miller Show? If so, I greatly admire your “Guess the Quotes” and other related work.
March 9, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Is this what happens when good grandma becomes evil grandma?
March 9, 2010 at 7:38 pm
The way this thing is displayed – on a post in the garden – I think maybe it’s meant to be a scarecrow.
That would be a better use for it anyway.
March 9, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Suda, now I see the Domo Kun than Helen mentioned!
March 9, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Oooo, Fashion Critic strikes again!
http://twitpic.com/17no8y
Surely you didn’t think you’d seen the last of him.
March 9, 2010 at 7:57 pm
#15 Radical Militant Librarian
At least no truffula trees appear to have been harmed in making this…product.
Although she does say she hasn’t dyed it from it’s natural color…I’m not sure what the “natural” color of a slip is, but I guess that’s just one more thing I missed while I had mono in high school…..
March 9, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Shirt+Skirt+Scarf=Shart.
March 9, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Ironically, I don’t remember seeing any ass-hats on Regretsy yet. Only a matter of time though. Seems like an appropriate accessory for a skants ensemble…
March 9, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I crochet, and I am embarrassed to death by this.
March 9, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Looks like it was “inspired” by random memory fragments stolen from somebody born in the 70s… My great-grandma had gold doily-coasters a lot like that, and I’m pretty sure I was given dolls with clothes made out of similar fabric. (Holly Hobby? Raggedy Ann?)
March 9, 2010 at 9:44 pm
The inspiration for this skirt came from the game of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
March 9, 2010 at 9:53 pm
As Liz Lemon would say: What the what?
March 9, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Fabric + epilepsy = a Scrapsister OOAK
Also HK I beg to differ that this is Plan B. If you’re taking Plan B you’re already knocked up… yep this shit is safer than a chastity belt: NO SISTER is seeing ANY action in this cock blocker!
March 9, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Razz I actually *like* the jeans jacket! But this skirt? no thanks. There’s planned hodgepodge and then there’s this mess. I’m not *that* chaotic!
March 9, 2010 at 10:59 pm
What’s really sad is that things like this–vintage fabrics and lace, etc–can be so beautiful if well done. And instead, all I ever see look like like a rag bag crazy quilt, but involving less sewing skill. (that said, those fabrics may not have ever found attractive ways to be upcycled, no matter the skill of the designer. And DEAR LORD never on the same canvas.)
March 10, 2010 at 12:32 am
IscreamUscream @11: especially considering it has no front or back, so when you wear it, you’re basically running around either topless or bottomless.
March 10, 2010 at 1:11 am
WTH! That looks like what I pull of our the dryer after I’ve done a load of laundry and forgot to add fabric softener!
March 10, 2010 at 3:10 am
Looks like the seller forgot to add a sheet of fabric softener when she threw all the vintage stuff in the dryer and when it came out all stuck together like this, she thought, screw it, I have no other use for it, I’ll just sew it all together and see what kind of sap will buy it.
March 10, 2010 at 4:25 am
Looks like my home ec project.
I got an F in home ec
March 10, 2010 at 7:12 am
Ya know…that skirt would look great with the Miracle whip necklace!
Someone out there has to put the entire outfit together…this skirt, the miracle whip necklace and the Siegfried and Roy white tiger hat! I’d pay to see someone wearing all that stuff!
March 10, 2010 at 8:49 am
#50 geektastic
Sadly, no… Just an average, everyday, garden-variety Radical Militant Librarian.
March 10, 2010 at 8:55 am
that orange doily is giving me flashbacks to my mother’s house…
March 10, 2010 at 9:12 am
Call an attorney…..this is an extreme case of slip and fail.
Wearing this would be fashion negligence, but would work if you needed to have a doily handy.
March 10, 2010 at 9:47 am
Dammit. Forget what I said above. I misread what HK said about the Regretsy Police. I completely misconstrued. No more Apple Martini lunches.
March 10, 2010 at 10:55 am
#54 rocks. Hee.
March 10, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Somebody forgot the dryer sheets!
March 11, 2010 at 1:25 am
i am fairly certain it IS a top – it couldn’t be any clearer where the boobie is supposed to go
March 11, 2010 at 7:11 am
What a pathetic waste of nice vintage textiles.
March 11, 2010 at 7:22 am
“omnomnomnom”
I agree with Dix. Not just a waste of nice Vintage textiles but the seller doesn’t own an iron or know how to use one. What possessed this person to think this is pretty? The seller threw hankies, trim, and doilies at the fabric and sewed them on where they landed.
March 12, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Straight from Courtney Love’s closet!
April 13, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Careful planning. Love to see what happens when she just throws stuff together.