Today is the last day you can order items from the clothing line based on the carpet pattern outside
Room 237 in Kubrick's The Shining.
Available for purchase is a sweater, cardigan, scarf, ski mask, door mat, and an area rug.
Not for nothing were
The Brothers Johnson known as "Lightnin' Licks" and "Thunder Thumbs."
Could be useful if you really don't like carrying a credit card. Except that now you have to be wearing the suit to buy anything.
Gay Jeans begin life looking and acting like regular 5-pocket denim jeans, but as they experience normal washing and wearing over the course of their life, their indigo dye gradually fades away, revealing fabulously colorful yarns just waiting to come out.
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Did this ever work? And why did the tie turn the wearer into an African-American when activated, as shown at the bottom of the ad?
Yoko Ono said that she originally designed these clothes in 1969 as a wedding gift for John Lennon. But it wasn't until 2012 that the English clothing store
Opening Ceremony decided to make a line of clothes based on her sketches.
Not sure if it should be categorized as a hat or a face mask. Created by British designer Ana Rajcevic. [via
RocketNews24]
From what I can gather, Necropants are an ancient Icelandic (magical) method of obtaining money. Because perhaps if you're wearing these things people will pay you to keep your distance.
Here's the instructions for how to make them (from the
Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft):
If you want to make your own necropants (literally; nábrók) you have to get permission from a living man to use his skin after his dead.
After he has been buried you must dig up his body and flay the skin of the corpse in one piece from the waist down. As soon as you step into the pants they will stick to your own skin. A coin must be stolen from a poor widow and placed in the scrotum along with the magical sign, nábrókarstafur, written on a piece of paper. Consequently the coin will draw money into the scrotum so it will never be empty, as long as the original coin is not removed. To ensure salvation the owner has to convince someone else to overtake the pants and step into each leg as soon as he gets out of it. The necropants will thus keep the money-gathering nature for generations.
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Notes From a Funeral Director]
The Guardian offers an odd footnote to the history of fashion. In 1826, "Zarafa" became the first giraffe ever brought to France from Africa. She inspired a giraffe craze, becoming the subject of songs, instrumental music, poems, and music-hall sketches. Also: "Women began to truss up their hair
à la Girafe and style themselves in giraffe-coloured dresses."
Sounds like it was the 19th century predecessor of the
beehive.