The Plague has leveled my town and I shan’t go on much longer. I have lost thus far Tom, Mary, John, and Tobias to the Black Death and I fear that I am not far behind. With the Germans bombing London, I feel as though I am lost in time.
As a costumer, this made me scream. First, 1940s is neither Elizabethan NOR Victorian. Steampunk *can* exist in all three eras, sort of, though Victorian is most traditional. The style of the collar makes me think of the Pilgrims, except, of course, that they never would have worn lace (though certain fahionable groups in Britain would have at the same time…but I’m pretty sure they were lace-trimmed rather than overlays like this). Maybe the model looks so depressed because someone just pointed all of these problems out to her?
I’ve always felt there was a market for a magazine called “Dour Pleasures” … all we need to do now is get that woman to remove everything but the lace collar and we’re in business.
@Buzzkill – I agree, this does not say “ruff” to me. And this comes from someone who actually has tried to shop Etsy for a serious, starched, giant ruff that would put Shakespeare to shame.
As I recall the book, no one admitted being with Hester Prynne. If this were the Demi Moore version, EVERYONE would have stepped up to say “Yeah! I was the one who did lay with that fine wench.” However, this image better fits the “I shall not admit to sleeping with thee” concept.
“no no No!
why in god’s name would I have said SNARL for the camera? nobody ever says that. Let’s try again, this time try to look a little happier. Remember, it’s a red letter day, after all. one…
two…
three…
*sigh*
…that’ll have to do.
Here we see a rare portrait of Ruth van Rijn. Oddly History is largely silent about her. all we know is she remained a spinster and her famous brother refused to paint her portrait saying once that: “Hers is the face that launched a thousand clocks”.
Providing the worst hooker services since 1892:
Churn Thy Butter – $3 ($2 without butter)
Plow The Field – $5 plus hay for the mule
Dig The Well – $4, bring your own drop-cloth
Slop The Hogs – $1, plus $1 for a bath afterwards
Raise The Barn – $4 (similar to Slop The Hog, but she bathes before you start)
Shuck The Corn – $6 (legal only in Iowa)
What The Cat Saw – $3 ($4 if you want a clothes pin for your nose)
Around The Farm – $10 Combination of Dig The Well, Slop The Hogs, and What The Cat Saw
As a veteran Rennie, I have only this to say –
“AAAAUUUIIIIIIGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!”
(Runs for the nearest costume shop to steep herself in actual period clothes)
Buzzkill Crying Glitter Eagle
October 20, 2010 at 3:40 pm
#37, I was tasked to MAKE a ruff to put Shakespeare to shame, and then I convinced the director to go “Italian Renaissance” for the play, instead of “Elizabethan” and I was actually able to FINISH the costumes in time for the performance.
I have some lovely patterns from a book, and I would probably just be getting done with one, right about now, 2 years later.
It looks like a lamp shade, seller! A Lampshade! And the fact that you jammed it over that woman’s head is clearly meeting with some disapprobation on her part!
@Bills-once again, I am in awe of you. And desperately want to forget the visuals your post brought to mind.
I do like how she believes this will suit a wide range of styles, from steampunk victorian, to 60′s rock star, to urban professional. Now if we could just get if off of the 60′s ‘rock star’, the others could try it on.
Okay, I’m going to be tonight’s buzz kill.
This isn’t very nice. Is the photo awful? Yes. Does the model look miserable? Yes.
But calling her a meth-head?
I didn’t call her a meth head. I called Judge Judy a meth head. – HK
I really like her hair, but south of that…she should cheer up. If she can afford lace in the Victorian era, she has something to smile about. I can’t imagine that it would have been cheap.
I want one of these, but three times the size, for when I have to eat spaghetti (or tacos) while wearing a nice, light-colored blouse. Let’s bring back the BIB as a fashion statement!
I wonder which style of the suggested four does the seller represent on the photo?
my first bet is
1. 60th rock star
or wait, it could be a professional…
October 20, 2010 at 9:21 am
But I don’t wanna be a pirate!!!!
October 20, 2010 at 9:22 am
Perfect at the Crab Shack!
October 20, 2010 at 9:24 am
Holy shit, I had no idea The Grinch was a true story about a real person.
October 20, 2010 at 9:25 am
I had no idea that meth would make my lacy collars bigger! Very excited to learn this.
October 20, 2010 at 9:26 am
http://i54.tinypic.com/oqao3p.png
October 20, 2010 at 9:27 am
“1940s Lace Elizabethan Collar” on an 1840s Victorian model.
October 20, 2010 at 9:28 am
Some people really know how to push it with their descriptions. “This suits all styles.”
I suggest we test that statement.
October 20, 2010 at 9:28 am
Who knew that Keith Richards was into modeling these days? He looks good in lace.
October 20, 2010 at 9:30 am
Is that a photo of one of the Salem witches?
October 20, 2010 at 9:34 am
I think the trick is not to wear them too tight…
October 20, 2010 at 9:35 am
This was all the rage with 60s rock stars.
The 1760s.
October 20, 2010 at 9:38 am
Don’t try to choke me with a doily and tell me I’m chief justice, smart guy.
October 20, 2010 at 9:49 am
She could have at least smiled. Oh wait she is smiling.
October 20, 2010 at 9:51 am
She needs to be standing next to her farmer husband holding a pitchfork.
At their meth farm.
October 20, 2010 at 9:55 am
@Bratfink-More like the Witchfinder General than witch.
I would rather see a dozen unicorn pasties and sexy Kiss costumes than this dour mug shot.
October 20, 2010 at 9:57 am
15 July, 1940 – Victorian (?) England
The Plague has leveled my town and I shan’t go on much longer. I have lost thus far Tom, Mary, John, and Tobias to the Black Death and I fear that I am not far behind. With the Germans bombing London, I feel as though I am lost in time.
~Agatha Postlethwaite
October 20, 2010 at 10:05 am
The collar looks like a christmas tree skirt.
BAH! HUMBUG!
October 20, 2010 at 10:09 am
It looks like she should be standing next to a pile of fire wood in Salem!!!
October 20, 2010 at 10:14 am
I want to hire this lady to stand in the back row of all my future family photos.
October 20, 2010 at 10:18 am
The seller tried to reuse an image from an old picture. Not a good idea:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20760471@N04/5099477833/
October 20, 2010 at 10:19 am
You know, I could use this…
My dog has been chewing at his stitches a lot lately. That may be why the model has such a look of disdain, she can’t chew at her stitches.
October 20, 2010 at 10:22 am
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
October 20, 2010 at 10:28 am
Now I want to buy this collar, just so I can drape around someone who’s being relentlessly perky before I’ve had my morning caffeine.
October 20, 2010 at 10:29 am
Miss Havisham could never figure out why there was no response to her ‘woman seeking man’ ad……………
October 20, 2010 at 10:42 am
I am YOU.
I am not A WITCH.
I am Christine O’Donnell and I approve this message
October 20, 2010 at 11:05 am
#16, now I want to read the rest of that book you’ve clearly started, darn it. LOL
October 20, 2010 at 11:13 am
As a costumer, this made me scream. First, 1940s is neither Elizabethan NOR Victorian. Steampunk *can* exist in all three eras, sort of, though Victorian is most traditional. The style of the collar makes me think of the Pilgrims, except, of course, that they never would have worn lace (though certain fahionable groups in Britain would have at the same time…but I’m pretty sure they were lace-trimmed rather than overlays like this). Maybe the model looks so depressed because someone just pointed all of these problems out to her?
October 20, 2010 at 11:16 am
Grand Ma-ma got her hairs cut!
(think Addams Family)
October 20, 2010 at 11:32 am
Awww, Hester Prim, why so grim?
October 20, 2010 at 11:39 am
I’ve always felt there was a market for a magazine called “Dour Pleasures” … all we need to do now is get that woman to remove everything but the lace collar and we’re in business.
October 20, 2010 at 11:47 am
Before my kids were born and our beloved dog was our first born, I had a canvas done of our dog’s head with a formal Puritan dress and human hands.
This is reminds me of it, but with Bob Dylan instead of my dog. I like my dog portrait better.
October 20, 2010 at 11:50 am
True American Gothic.
October 20, 2010 at 11:51 am
#15 KK
The picture hit you the exact same way it hit ME!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20760471@N04/5099477833/
October 20, 2010 at 11:59 am
1490′s? Possibly. But they were more horizontal, or inverted from the way this is currently being worn.
http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsA/tve666-2-42.jpg
October 20, 2010 at 11:59 am
Queen Lizzy 1st called, she wants her ruffle and her century back…
October 20, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Well she does look like she’s about to have her cousin’s head chopped
October 20, 2010 at 12:08 pm
@Buzzkill – I agree, this does not say “ruff” to me. And this comes from someone who actually has tried to shop Etsy for a serious, starched, giant ruff that would put Shakespeare to shame.
October 20, 2010 at 12:16 pm
As I recall the book, no one admitted being with Hester Prynne. If this were the Demi Moore version, EVERYONE would have stepped up to say “Yeah! I was the one who did lay with that fine wench.” However, this image better fits the “I shall not admit to sleeping with thee” concept.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/billsbayou/ScarletLetter.jpg
October 20, 2010 at 12:17 pm
I wouldst not tappeth that.
October 20, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
October 20, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
October 20, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Why does someone who can’t possibly be Amish look so Amish?
October 20, 2010 at 1:18 pm
“no no No!
why in god’s name would I have said SNARL for the camera? nobody ever says that. Let’s try again, this time try to look a little happier. Remember, it’s a red letter day, after all. one…
two…
three…
*sigh*
…that’ll have to do.
October 20, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Here we see a rare portrait of Ruth van Rijn. Oddly History is largely silent about her. all we know is she remained a spinster and her famous brother refused to paint her portrait saying once that: “Hers is the face that launched a thousand clocks”.
…they were never very close
October 20, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Providing the worst hooker services since 1892:
Churn Thy Butter – $3 ($2 without butter)
Plow The Field – $5 plus hay for the mule
Dig The Well – $4, bring your own drop-cloth
Slop The Hogs – $1, plus $1 for a bath afterwards
Raise The Barn – $4 (similar to Slop The Hog, but she bathes before you start)
Shuck The Corn – $6 (legal only in Iowa)
What The Cat Saw – $3 ($4 if you want a clothes pin for your nose)
Around The Farm – $10 Combination of Dig The Well, Slop The Hogs, and What The Cat Saw
October 20, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Faces of Meth – pure genius!!!
October 20, 2010 at 2:04 pm
This is what happens when ya mess with steam, punk!
October 20, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Also doubles as a lovely way to cover your stoma.
October 20, 2010 at 2:24 pm
#41 ha ha FTW!!!
October 20, 2010 at 2:29 pm
#30, I gave your comment a thumbs-up, but I kind of hate you for making me imagine that. *shudders*
October 20, 2010 at 2:38 pm
As a veteran Rennie, I have only this to say –
“AAAAUUUIIIIIIGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!”
(Runs for the nearest costume shop to steep herself in actual period clothes)
October 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm
“I am smiling. Go ahead and take the picture.”
October 20, 2010 at 3:08 pm
“They don’t keep me around because I’m Beautiful. They keep me around because I’m SMART!”
October 20, 2010 at 3:40 pm
#37, I was tasked to MAKE a ruff to put Shakespeare to shame, and then I convinced the director to go “Italian Renaissance” for the play, instead of “Elizabethan” and I was actually able to FINISH the costumes in time for the performance.
I have some lovely patterns from a book, and I would probably just be getting done with one, right about now, 2 years later.
October 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm
This gives new meaning to Aresenic and old lace.
October 20, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Sorry. Misspelled Arsenic! It’s the meth. . .
October 20, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I’m feeling generous today- hell, I’ll give her the ten bucks , just to see her smile.
October 20, 2010 at 4:08 pm
She looks like a pilgrim. (Who was seasick coming over on the Mayflower)
October 20, 2010 at 4:34 pm
It looks like a lamp shade, seller! A Lampshade! And the fact that you jammed it over that woman’s head is clearly meeting with some disapprobation on her part!
October 20, 2010 at 4:58 pm
They just had to go and bring steampunk into it.
October 20, 2010 at 5:31 pm
@Bills-once again, I am in awe of you. And desperately want to forget the visuals your post brought to mind.
I do like how she believes this will suit a wide range of styles, from steampunk victorian, to 60′s rock star, to urban professional. Now if we could just get if off of the 60′s ‘rock star’, the others could try it on.
October 20, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Okay, I’m going to be tonight’s buzz kill.
This isn’t very nice. Is the photo awful? Yes. Does the model look miserable? Yes.
But calling her a meth-head?
I didn’t call her a meth head. I called Judge Judy a meth head. – HK
October 20, 2010 at 6:01 pm
I really like her hair, but south of that…she should cheer up. If she can afford lace in the Victorian era, she has something to smile about. I can’t imagine that it would have been cheap.
October 20, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Well, of course Judge Judy is a meth head.
October 21, 2010 at 4:00 am
I want one of these, but three times the size, for when I have to eat spaghetti (or tacos) while wearing a nice, light-colored blouse. Let’s bring back the BIB as a fashion statement!
October 21, 2010 at 5:48 am
Ok, is it just me, or is it on backwards? (looking at the judge and comparing)…
October 21, 2010 at 5:59 am
#66, that’s what happens when you’re on meth.
October 21, 2010 at 6:11 am
That collar’s only for really special meth occasions. You put that collar on to let everybody know you are really ready for a good time.
October 21, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I wonder which style of the suggested four does the seller represent on the photo?
my first bet is
1. 60th rock star
or wait, it could be a professional…
October 21, 2010 at 5:45 pm
lady collar what a thrill …. they look soooooooo happy to model it ..