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Funky Shoes of the 1970s
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 06, 2012 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Shoes, 1970s
Cinderella Penguin
The tale of a glass flipper.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 25, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Family, Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons, Shoes, Parody
L L Bean Bootmobile
I'd pay good money to see the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile side-by-side with the Bootmobile!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Shoes, Trucks
How to Look Like An Idiot, In One Easy “Step”
Buy yours here!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 15, 2010 -
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Category: Shoes
Follies of the Mad Men #106
This is someone's foot. With a face drawn on the sole. Wearing a collar and tie, glasses, and a hat. With fake "head" hair attached. I know it's "just a drawing." But the concept is ludicrous and creepy. I will not buy your shoes, Mr. Roblee!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 01, 2010 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Body, Feet, Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, 1940s
The High Heels Posse
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 09, 2010 -
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Category: Subcultures, Shoes
Follies of the Mad Men #100
Well, here we are at the hundredth weird advertisement. I think we have a suitably memorable item, involving one of the most maligned and hated products of recent vintage: Crocs!
An absolutely creepy concept. Hideous living shoes molest you upon entry to your supposedly safe domicile.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 23, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Shoes
Just Some Weird Crap!
Perhaps he should have contacted Ireland’s first official dog-waste removal company, Mr. Scoopy-Poo. The brainchild of Irish entrepreneur William O’Brian, Mr. Scoopy-Poo (motto, “Business stinks – but it’s picking up!”) will clean up after your dirty dogs into biodegradable bags and hygienically dispose of them, for a price of course. After all, where there’s muck there’s brass, and occasionally diamonds (Irish Examiner).
But O’Brian may be missing a trick here, why dispose of faeces when you could be selling it as the latest must have fashion item? What sounds like insanity may be an idea whose time has come. How else can you explain not one but two manure-based products in the same week?
First up is London based artist and designer INSA, who has produced a pair of 10” stilettos incorporating elephant dung. And this isn’t just dung from any old elephant either, this is dung from the very same elephant family that produced the infamous extra ingredient for a series of paintings made by artist Chris Ofili in the 90s. Yup, in these shoes you are literally standing on celebrity elephant dung (Huffington Post).
And hot on the precipitous heels of INSA is Geneva based watchmaker Yvan Arpa, who has crafted his latest $11,000 wrist-candy from toad skin and dinosaur doo. The watches, to be made and sold by Swiss watchmakers Artya, feature a face cut from a 100 million year-old “coprolite”, or fossil faeces, left behind by an ancient plant-eater in what is now the United States. And the quality American materials don’t just amount to a pretty face as the strap is lovingly crafted from the hide of an American cane toad. The mechanism though is pure Swiss craftsmanship (Star Tribune).
Image: Maggie Smith / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Tue Mar 16, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Design and Designers, Fashion, Shoes, Pets, Dogs, Excrement
How to Be Well-Groomed
The birth of the Metro-sexual......
Poor Sue and her stubby hands!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 03, 2010 -
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Category: Fashion, Hair Styling, Shoes, Teenagers, Documentaries, 1940s
Fifty-Pound Boots
An advance in penal technology that never caught on. I found this in the San Antonio Evening News, Nov 3, 1922:Fifty-Pound Boots to Hold Criminals
Shod with the fifty-pound "Oregon" boot of metal, dangerous criminals have little, if any, chance of escaping by making a desperate dash for liberty, especially while on long railroad journeys in the custody of an officer of the law.
This shackling device is adapted from the old ball and chain, which it is to supercede. It consists of a steel frame work that fits over the shoe in the manner shown in the accompanying illustration. The "upper" is finished off as a fifty-pound collar.
A prisoner thus shod is able to walk but slowly and with some comfort. However, if he should make any attempt to escape by running, the heavy metal collar of the boot, it is claimed, will break his leg.
Shod with the fifty-pound "Oregon" boot of metal, dangerous criminals have little, if any, chance of escaping by making a desperate dash for liberty, especially while on long railroad journeys in the custody of an officer of the law.
This shackling device is adapted from the old ball and chain, which it is to supercede. It consists of a steel frame work that fits over the shoe in the manner shown in the accompanying illustration. The "upper" is finished off as a fifty-pound collar.
A prisoner thus shod is able to walk but slowly and with some comfort. However, if he should make any attempt to escape by running, the heavy metal collar of the boot, it is claimed, will break his leg.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 22, 2009 -
Comments (5)
Category: Prisons, Shoes
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