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Ferguson Safety Smock
Why you should buy a Ferguson Safety Smock:- They're virtually indestructible.
- They have no hard fasteners that can be filed into weapons.
- They have no nylon hook-and-loop fasteners that can be torn off and used as a rope.
- They include a sanitary belt "designed for self-destructive females on their menses."
- Plus, they make a great fashion statement!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 28, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Prisons
Human Hair Clothes
CraftStylish.com has collected instructions on how to make yarn out of just about anything: newspaper, VHS tape, plastic bags, or human hair.They link to a story about a Romanian woman, Ioana Cioanca, who made an entire wardrobe for herself out of her own hair. She's quoted as saying, "Long years I had to wait for my hair to grow so as to make clothes from it but I managed and I am very pleased now."
If you ever want to end a date early, that sentence, said exactly like that, could scare away almost anyone.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 24, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Hair Styling
Buruma
For a galley of buruma images, most definitely NSFW, visit this site. You will probably have to click on the button labeled TOGGLE VISIBILITY OF MATURE CONTENT.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 07, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Underwear, Sexuality, Asia
Follies of the Mad Men #62
Please parse the logic here for me. We'll use feminism to sell ugly shoes for men? I just don't get it....
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 06, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, Feminism, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #61
Oh, yeah, a belt your Dad would wear back in 1971 could trigger all that groovy hippie stuff. Note the sign that uses Frank Zappa's name for cachet. Did he sue, I wonder?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 31, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Git Gob
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 18, 2009 -
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Category: Aliens, Fashion, Music, Cartoons
How to undress in two seconds
This could be useful if you're in a hurry.(via Art of the Prank)
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 18, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Video
Sarah Palin Wigs
Paula Young, "America's Choice for Beautiful Hair," offers a full line of Sarah Palin Style Wigs and Hair Pieces... for those who have an urge to look just like Alaska' governor.Oddly, some of the biggest fans of Sarah Palin wigs are Orthodox Jewish women, according to BusinessWorld Online. It has nothing to do with politics. Orthodox Jewish women wear wigs for religious reasons, and they like her look. They're also willing to pay $700 or more for that look.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 05, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Hair Styling
The history of three-holed panties
After I posted about the "pantyhose garment with spare leg" yesterday, several people pointed out prior art, which to my mind calls into question the validity of the patent.In the comments, Dumbfounded noted: "In a 1987 Judge Dredd story, the father of child serial killer P.J. Maybe shows off a design for trousers with a third leg, 'in case one wears out'. The spare leg was kept tucked in a pocket when not in use."
And then Chuck recalled that in the first News of the Weird paperback (1989), he included an anecdote from the Wall Street Journal about a Japanese worker who had invented six-day underwear with three leg holes.
I tracked down the WSJ article in question. It ran on Oct. 16, 1987 and described a creativity contest at Honda Motor Co. in which workers were encouraged to design whimsical new products, one of which was indeed underwear with three leg holes: "The garment is supposed to last for six days, with the wearer rotating it 120 degrees each day--and then wearing it inside out for three days."
Other products from the contest included:
- musical bath slippers
- a hot tub installed in the back of a car
- a fig tree that dances to the music of Karen Carpenter
- a toothbrush with built-in toothpaste
- a child's motorized sled that climbs back uphill by itself
- a pillow with an internal alarm
- and a rickshaw pulled by a manikin made of papier-mache and plaster (designed to resemble Honda's 81-year-old founder, Soichiro Honda)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 27, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Underwear, Patents
Pantyhose Garment with Spare Leg
Patent No. 5,713,081, issued Feb 3, 1998:A hosiery item including a panty member having three absorbent crotch members provided therein, each absorbent crotch member having a pocket formed therein; and three leg portions secured to the panty member in a manner such that an absorbent crotch member is positioned between any two leg portions, each leg portion having a leg insertion opening in connection with an interior of the panty member.
In use the wearer inserts her legs into two of the leg openings in the conventional fashion of donning a pair of pantyhose. The remaining unused leg portion is then gathered and the toe end tucked into the pocket of one of the absorbent crotch members. If a run or hole develops in one of the leg portions being worn, the leg of the wearer can be easily and rapidly removed from the damaged leg portion and placed into the undamaged spare leg portion. The damaged leg portion is then gathered, folded and tucked into a pocket of one of the absorbent crotch members as wearer to select and use any two of the three leg portions for use.
In use the wearer inserts her legs into two of the leg openings in the conventional fashion of donning a pair of pantyhose. The remaining unused leg portion is then gathered and the toe end tucked into the pocket of one of the absorbent crotch members. If a run or hole develops in one of the leg portions being worn, the leg of the wearer can be easily and rapidly removed from the damaged leg portion and placed into the undamaged spare leg portion. The damaged leg portion is then gathered, folded and tucked into a pocket of one of the absorbent crotch members as wearer to select and use any two of the three leg portions for use.
All Weird Universe readers, male and female, are expected to add this to their wardrobes.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 26, 2009 -
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Category: Fashion, Patents
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