Obviously, the trash can is there in homage to the famed Letterman Dumpster, beside which the celebrities are photographed before appearing on the show.
Now, the rest of the trash on the clothes hangers. . .I got nothin’.
you know the sad thing is the only one in that clusterfuck that looks half way wearable is the poncho….but only 4lb. lapdogs are wearing ponchos this season. so…i guess what i mean to say is fuck it all anyway……
you know where they should photograph this stuff at….on the chainlink fence around the dump…I mean, that’s where they got this stuff from in the first place. So they might as well keep it authentic.
I am seeing a lot of downcycling here. Do they really think this is hip/trendy/chic/cool, or are they selling crap on purpose and laughing at the idiots who buy it?
Well, I was thinking it did have a certain ‘eldritch horror’ look. As if Cthulu’s wife had taken up knitting and ended up on interdimensional Etsy. I’m half expecting that sweater to reach through the computer screen and…
AUUUUUUGH! THE HORROR! One of these days I really need to do an ‘accidental elder gods creation’ collection on Etsy.
I know these pictures were taken after taking stuff out of storage, realizing “The mothballs! They do nothing!” then saying “Darn it! I can’t darn it.” and finally affixing something over the holes.
That first sweater looks like a melanoma public service announcement. “If you have a multi-colored mole with irregular borders, it could be melanoma. Make an appointment with your doctor.”
The person who used the solid wooden fence had the right idea; it’s like barn-wood, but you don’t have to store it in your house. (More room for “craft supplies” that way.)
(To clarify, I meant the “Funky Babydoll” or whatever that second one is called. Not the one who has their own fence inside their house or whatever’s going on there.)
There’s nothing like the smile on a young girl’s face who has just escaped from a car trunk and some garbage bags in a mall lot in Hoboken, NJ. Nothing!
You guys can’t prove anything! There were lots of cars with Oregon plates in that garage that day! And those aren’t handcuff marks on her wrists, they’re tattoos…
I really like the lighting and composition of the first piece. But there’s this ugly green piece of crap in the middle which just ruins the whole thing.
I’m sad to say I thought the little pillowcase dress was kind of cute. But in my defence, I’m in nesting mode and also wanting to dress as-yet-unarrived babygirl in cute things. So I blame it on pregnancy insanity.
To be honest, a lot of infant clothing reminds me of a pillowcase. Cut a hole in the top for the head and one on each corner for arms and WHAMMO! instant nightgown. Heck, you could even tie the bottom in a knot to keep out drafts.
The first two are definitely “I have no clue what to do with my scrap fabric heap” sweaters and “So I’m just going to sew a bunch of random pieces of lace and other hideous fabric I have no idea what to use for on a shirt I got at Goodwill”
To me, the “Funky Babydoll” looks like a prop from an SNL skit where Molly Shannon would play a 3rd-grader circa 1992. I’m not sure how I arrived at this conclusion, but it seems sound.
I’m reminded of a useful bit of advice from Max Headroom:
“When waiting at a bus stop, you may notice a glove popped over the top of a fencepost. There is always a great temptation to go over and touch it. DO NOT TOUCH THE GLOVE. It will be sopping wet, dirty, and cold. And there’s only the one, so it’s of no use to you. And you’ll lose your place in the bus queue. Just leave it alone.”
These must be those fences you hear about where the grass is always greener on the other side. But I thought shit was good fertilizer and that’s on this side.
What I’m saying is, fuck yard work.
what happened, with the first sweater, did someone want to cover up a moth eaten hole with whatever tacky crap acrylic yarn granny had in her stash? Also, on the babydoll dress, there should be an arrow leading to the trash can. It belongs there along with Hellephant (but less lovable)
I thought it was possibly hiding a puke stain, but that’s just me. “Pillowcase Dress”? I feel a tablecloth dress, couch cusion, drapery, bath towel, shower curtain, coming on! (the possibilities now seem endless)
I’m feeling slutty so I think I’ll go with a hand towel skirt with a facecloth tube top. (I’ll make sure to display it on one of those tiny decorative fences they put around flower beds).
That third picture looks like it belongs in Edward Scissorhands what with it’s perfect little white fence and it’s perfect greed lawns and it’s perfect sunny lane.
Then if you get photobombed by a possum or rat, it’ll add to the atmosphere. “Okay, move to the right a little. Now stand up on your haunches and stop showing your teeth . . .”
OK, the green thing just looked like she put something in the dryer without using an anti-static sheet but this? It looks like she pooped the “shoulder strap.”
I just can’t handle it. Sew crap to crap and call it “upcycled” when, in fact, it is merely crap with more crap on it. Got a crap sweater? Good! Got some crap bits of fabric in your sewing odds’n'ends drawer? Great! Stitch that crap together and post it on Etsy, and $78 is as good as in the bank.
That second blue one reminds me of the ‘short fat’ clothing the kids get Goldy Hawn at the Salvation Army in Overboard. But honestly, who could physically be proportioned for that?
seriously?? Why y’all gotta hate, sheesh I was just being cheeky. You 3 that thumbs downed me need pull the home made, etsy bought dildo out of your asses and chill out a bit. wow. O_o
Nope, we want perfection in the form of a dirty fence-sitting hippie. Actually, OOAK dirty fence-sitting hippie evil twins would be better from now on. Got that, sellers?
August 31, 2012 at 9:42 am
Obviously, the trash can is there in homage to the famed Letterman Dumpster, beside which the celebrities are photographed before appearing on the show.
Now, the rest of the trash on the clothes hangers. . .I got nothin’.
August 31, 2012 at 9:54 am
No, I think the trash can is where the blouse was before the photo was taken.
August 31, 2012 at 10:01 am
Just planning ahead in case Etsy ever asks to see photos of their work area.
August 31, 2012 at 10:04 am
It’s a trash collective.
August 31, 2012 at 12:26 pm
you know the sad thing is the only one in that clusterfuck that looks half way wearable is the poncho….but only 4lb. lapdogs are wearing ponchos this season. so…i guess what i mean to say is fuck it all anyway……
August 31, 2012 at 9:43 am
Chain Link…the new Barnwood.
August 31, 2012 at 9:45 am
Every picture could use a little chain link. Its cheap chic!
August 31, 2012 at 10:48 am
No, no, no. Chain link is symbolic of Industrial Chic…
August 31, 2012 at 12:28 pm
you know where they should photograph this stuff at….on the chainlink fence around the dump…I mean, that’s where they got this stuff from in the first place. So they might as well keep it authentic.
August 31, 2012 at 6:27 pm
That would be Inception and would require Leonardo DiCaprio
September 1, 2012 at 1:43 pm
The sad thing is that the pillowcase dress only needed to move a couple of feet to the left…the bin is waiting…come on, luv, you can do it…
September 1, 2012 at 7:49 pm
You mean to the right, right?
August 31, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Chain link is so steampunk.
August 31, 2012 at 4:25 pm
It’s the new distressed wood.
August 31, 2012 at 9:44 am
I am seeing a lot of downcycling here. Do they really think this is hip/trendy/chic/cool, or are they selling crap on purpose and laughing at the idiots who buy it?
August 31, 2012 at 9:58 am
Selling crap on purpose is one of the Etsy tenets.
August 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
“Crap on purpose” can be rearranged into “Poop Un-Scraper”
August 31, 2012 at 10:46 am
It’s really just a Rorschach test – you see what you want to see. Here is what I saw:
September 1, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Well, I was thinking it did have a certain ‘eldritch horror’ look. As if Cthulu’s wife had taken up knitting and ended up on interdimensional Etsy. I’m half expecting that sweater to reach through the computer screen and…
AUUUUUUGH! THE HORROR! One of these days I really need to do an ‘accidental elder gods creation’ collection on Etsy.
August 31, 2012 at 9:46 am
I think some of these pictures were taken just minutes after a police chase.
August 31, 2012 at 10:32 am
I know these pictures were taken after taking stuff out of storage, realizing “The mothballs! They do nothing!” then saying “Darn it! I can’t darn it.” and finally affixing something over the holes.
August 31, 2012 at 9:47 am
I can’t take my eyes off the rug with the boa holding it together to disguise it as a poncho…
August 31, 2012 at 9:48 am
Note to Etsiers: Shabby is not chic.
August 31, 2012 at 9:48 am
In the next Goodwill Fashion Show:
Balled-up Tissue Fascinators and Crocheted Swami Pants.
August 31, 2012 at 10:19 am
I’m proactively (future-actively?) blaming you for when it appears. You said it, so here it… Oh Hell, I can’t even…
August 31, 2012 at 4:10 pm
I was thinking the same thing- Goodwill Fashion Show.
Awesome!
August 31, 2012 at 9:51 am
That first sweater looks like a melanoma public service announcement. “If you have a multi-colored mole with irregular borders, it could be melanoma. Make an appointment with your doctor.”
August 31, 2012 at 9:53 am
I don’t know which one to choose. If there was one in green I’d picket.
August 31, 2012 at 9:55 am
RED. I meant to say RED.
I hate when I fuck up a pun. It’s offenceive.
August 31, 2012 at 10:49 am
Gate, just gate… Now I’ll be misspelling that word all day.
August 31, 2012 at 11:11 am
Dontcha hate it when a fence post falls down?
August 31, 2012 at 11:38 am
I’d stake my reputation on it.
August 31, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Quit posting, then. Otherwise, we’ll all end up trying to whitewash this whole mess. We need to remain good neighbors.
August 31, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Yes. Respect other people’s boundaries.
August 31, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Respecting boundaries is a well-defined property we should all have.
August 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm
Did you get that result from a survey?
August 31, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I’ll stake my life on that idea!
August 31, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Really people, if you are going to keep railing about this, I’m going to split.
August 31, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Hey, it’s just wrong word. Be glad it wasn’t a bad link; THAT would have gotten you a chain of complaints.
August 31, 2012 at 9:53 am
I personally can’t wait for the Down Comforter Ball Gown with matching Felt Slippers.
August 31, 2012 at 9:55 am
The person who used the solid wooden fence had the right idea; it’s like barn-wood, but you don’t have to store it in your house. (More room for “craft supplies” that way.)
August 31, 2012 at 9:56 am
(To clarify, I meant the “Funky Babydoll” or whatever that second one is called. Not the one who has their own fence inside their house or whatever’s going on there.)
August 31, 2012 at 9:55 am
If you like this item, also see:
August 31, 2012 at 9:56 am
Would you look at that. Someone’s thrown away a perfectly good white girl.
August 31, 2012 at 9:59 am
I want my two dollars!!
August 31, 2012 at 10:00 am
I thumbs up because it is a Men at Work reference and Emilio is my homeboy.
August 31, 2012 at 10:02 am
Actually it’s a Better off Dead reference.
August 31, 2012 at 12:04 pm
My bad. I guess it is in both movies.
August 31, 2012 at 2:29 pm
“Aww, lookie here. Looks like somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy!” is from Men at Work.
“Man, that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.” is from Better Off Dead.
the confusion is understandable.
August 31, 2012 at 2:56 pm
“I’m a trashed white boy.” is me from frequently.
August 31, 2012 at 6:09 pm
TWO DOLLARS !! … *goes though car wash* I CAN’T SWIM
August 31, 2012 at 10:03 am
Oh, I thought it was a reference to Better off Dead. It’s from Men at Work?
September 1, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Apparently, this is where the white women are at.
August 31, 2012 at 10:09 am
There’s nothing like the smile on a young girl’s face who has just escaped from a car trunk and some garbage bags in a mall lot in Hoboken, NJ. Nothing!
August 31, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Yeah, but whoever stuffed her in that bag and left her in the trunk is gonna be upset when they find out she’s gone.
August 31, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Until she realizes she’s still in Hoboken, NJ. Then the smile fades quickly.
August 31, 2012 at 8:23 pm
You guys can’t prove anything! There were lots of cars with Oregon plates in that garage that day! And those aren’t handcuff marks on her wrists, they’re tattoos…
August 31, 2012 at 10:00 am
Regretsy, etsy, etsy, regretsy.
Oh wait, wrong post tag.
August 31, 2012 at 10:01 am
The pillow case dress makes me think of Carol Burnett’s “Went with the Wind”.
Except, this is the modern day remake, “Gone with the Fartsack”.
August 31, 2012 at 12:18 pm
With Carol coming down the stairs wearing the curtains with the rod on her shoulders?
August 31, 2012 at 8:12 pm
It’s a shame because it was probably once a perfectly useful cream (or creme if you are the seller) colored pillow case.
August 31, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Now it’s crime colored.
August 31, 2012 at 10:03 am
They missed it by a yard.
August 31, 2012 at 4:13 pm
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August 31, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Sod it!
August 31, 2012 at 10:04 am
I really like the lighting and composition of the first piece. But there’s this ugly green piece of crap in the middle which just ruins the whole thing.
August 31, 2012 at 10:06 am
I’m sad to say I thought the little pillowcase dress was kind of cute. But in my defence, I’m in nesting mode and also wanting to dress as-yet-unarrived babygirl in cute things. So I blame it on pregnancy insanity.
August 31, 2012 at 10:18 am
OK, but keep the context really clear when you start talking about wanting to put your new baby in a pillowcase.
August 31, 2012 at 10:21 am
NOBODY puts baby in the pillowcase. (Though a fine bludgeon it would make.)
August 31, 2012 at 8:51 pm
To be honest, a lot of infant clothing reminds me of a pillowcase. Cut a hole in the top for the head and one on each corner for arms and WHAMMO! instant nightgown. Heck, you could even tie the bottom in a knot to keep out drafts.
August 31, 2012 at 7:15 pm
I’m with you! I thought it was cute. As a dress for a little girl..not as a shirt or dress for a grown up, but the lace and such are actually cute.
September 1, 2012 at 7:54 pm
But you said cute. I can’t find no cute about that dress
August 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
The first two are definitely “I have no clue what to do with my scrap fabric heap” sweaters and “So I’m just going to sew a bunch of random pieces of lace and other hideous fabric I have no idea what to use for on a shirt I got at Goodwill”
August 31, 2012 at 12:06 pm
I honestly don’t think the shirt came from Goodwill.
August 31, 2012 at 12:55 pm
To me, the “Funky Babydoll” looks like a prop from an SNL skit where Molly Shannon would play a 3rd-grader circa 1992. I’m not sure how I arrived at this conclusion, but it seems sound.
August 31, 2012 at 10:41 am
I don’t try to clothe my fences. I just let them run naked, as Nature intended.
August 31, 2012 at 10:47 am
The green one looks like it was photoshopped onto a fence background.
August 31, 2012 at 11:03 am
What did those poor fences ever do to deserve this kind of treatment?
August 31, 2012 at 11:03 am
(From the etsy dictionary)
Couture: When one dumpster dives for clothing and must use a cluster fuck of mismatched trash to create even more fuckery.
August 31, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Adorned: When shit has other shit glued to it.
August 31, 2012 at 11:05 am
I dunno about elsewhere in the world but here in the UK we the only items of clothing you get on fences are solitary soiled gloves.
August 31, 2012 at 12:07 pm
I know that in someplaces, people would put out free clothes for homeless people on their fence.
September 3, 2012 at 4:39 pm
… Or maybe they were just trying to dry the clothes and didn’t have a clothesline? And then homeless people came and stole them…
September 1, 2012 at 5:18 am
I’m reminded of a useful bit of advice from Max Headroom:
“When waiting at a bus stop, you may notice a glove popped over the top of a fencepost. There is always a great temptation to go over and touch it. DO NOT TOUCH THE GLOVE. It will be sopping wet, dirty, and cold. And there’s only the one, so it’s of no use to you. And you’ll lose your place in the bus queue. Just leave it alone.”
August 31, 2012 at 11:19 am
These must be those fences you hear about where the grass is always greener on the other side. But I thought shit was good fertilizer and that’s on this side.
What I’m saying is, fuck yard work.
August 31, 2012 at 12:34 pm
I think the grass really is greener on the other side of that fence. Perhaps that ugly blue poncho yellowed the grass all around it on this side.
So yeah, I think we’re saying the same thing here.
August 31, 2012 at 6:52 pm
The grass is always greener at Snoopdog’s house
August 31, 2012 at 8:30 pm
That’s “Snoop Lawn” now,if I heard that right.
August 31, 2012 at 11:27 am
oddly enough, I think that last pic was taken outside of my in law’s house
August 31, 2012 at 11:55 am
Why would I buy one of these things? I can get the same effect just taking clothes out of the dryer on a staticky day.
August 31, 2012 at 1:14 pm
what happened, with the first sweater, did someone want to cover up a moth eaten hole with whatever tacky crap acrylic yarn granny had in her stash? Also, on the babydoll dress, there should be an arrow leading to the trash can. It belongs there along with Hellephant (but less lovable)
August 31, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I thought it was possibly hiding a puke stain, but that’s just me. “Pillowcase Dress”? I feel a tablecloth dress, couch cusion, drapery, bath towel, shower curtain, coming on! (the possibilities now seem endless)
August 31, 2012 at 1:40 pm
“cushion”
August 31, 2012 at 2:37 pm
A “cusion” is when your crap is nuclear-powered awful.
August 31, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Are you sure it isn’t a positively-charged particle that is comfy?
August 31, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Nuclear-powered awful? I am so going to use that this weekend… I just know it. Thanks for any trouble I may be in. It will be sooo worth it!
August 31, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I’m feeling slutty so I think I’ll go with a hand towel skirt with a facecloth tube top. (I’ll make sure to display it on one of those tiny decorative fences they put around flower beds).
August 31, 2012 at 2:37 pm
That and #3 and #4 are showing our implacable enemy STATIC CLING. Use those dryer sheets, people!
August 31, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Ahem, #2 and #4. I was overcome by the heady perfume of dryer sheets. Which bingo game are we playing again?
August 31, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I read “Funky Babysdoll sweater” as “Fugly Babydoll sweater”. Ssdly it makes more sense.
August 31, 2012 at 1:28 pm
The “Trashy Lingerie” shop’s Southern flagship store…
August 31, 2012 at 1:33 pm
That third picture looks like it belongs in Edward Scissorhands what with it’s perfect little white fence and it’s perfect greed lawns and it’s perfect sunny lane.
August 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
I thumbed you up for “greed lawns”.
August 31, 2012 at 9:44 pm
I knew my typos would get me somewhere in life!
I thumbed you up for being awesome.
September 1, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Woohoo! My awesomeness usually goes unrecognized – you are such a visionary!
August 31, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I’m going to start using my fence as a photo prop. It looks WAY shabbier than the one in picture 2…
August 31, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Then if you get photobombed by a possum or rat, it’ll add to the atmosphere. “Okay, move to the right a little. Now stand up on your haunches and stop showing your teeth . . .”
August 31, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Green sweeter lady’s shop includes this: (It’s an I-spy piece, see if you can find the “handbag” hidden in all the garbage)
August 31, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Is it the birds perched on a haggis?
August 31, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Total scraptastic fuckery to be found there.
August 31, 2012 at 8:25 pm
OK, the green thing just looked like she put something in the dryer without using an anti-static sheet but this? It looks like she pooped the “shoulder strap.”
August 31, 2012 at 8:56 pm
That thing looks like it was made by Dr. Seuss.
August 31, 2012 at 3:40 pm
I can’t tell how I feel about these. I guess I’m on the fence.
August 31, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I just can’t handle it. Sew crap to crap and call it “upcycled” when, in fact, it is merely crap with more crap on it. Got a crap sweater? Good! Got some crap bits of fabric in your sewing odds’n'ends drawer? Great! Stitch that crap together and post it on Etsy, and $78 is as good as in the bank.
August 31, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Don’t forget to throw that crap sweater in the washer and ‘felt’ it. That adds to the dollar signs.
Where do they get their pricing from?
August 31, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Felt it? I wouldn’t touch it with a fence pole.
August 31, 2012 at 4:25 pm
That second blue one reminds me of the ‘short fat’ clothing the kids get Goldy Hawn at the Salvation Army in Overboard. But honestly, who could physically be proportioned for that?
September 1, 2012 at 2:48 am
Methinks ’tisI think it’s for a doll…August 31, 2012 at 4:35 pm
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September 3, 2012 at 12:12 pm
seriously?? Why y’all gotta hate, sheesh I was just being cheeky. You 3 that thumbs downed me need pull the home made, etsy bought dildo out of your asses and chill out a bit. wow. O_o
August 31, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I saw these and thought, “Who is the asshole who’s hanging horrible sweaters on fences? Can’t they just tag with graffiti like NORMAL PEOPLE?”
August 31, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Complain about clothes shown on a fence, complain when they show them on a dirty hippie, there is just no pleasing you people is there?
August 31, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Nope, we want perfection in the form of a dirty fence-sitting hippie. Actually, OOAK dirty fence-sitting hippie evil twins would be better from now on. Got that, sellers?
August 31, 2012 at 8:22 pm
The green monstrosity must be the best because it has both barn wood AND a fence in the background.
September 1, 2012 at 1:42 am
Note to self: be sure to hang my
patched“reconstructed” jeans on the chicken coop fencing for extra Etsy cred.September 5, 2012 at 8:12 am
Is that a Sears poncho, or is it an Etsy poncho? Or is it just a piece of crap?