what the shit is this? warning: mannequin used as furniture

[cimorene]

There I was, innocently watching ten-year-old television last night, when this UNSPEAKABLE HORROR assaulted my eyes: a side table made out of a mannequin! An honest-to-Gaga, bewigged, creepy-greyish-makeup-painted mannequin set at blowjob height, so presumably bits of its plastic anatomy have been removed which just makes it worse. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, show? WHY?

 







You know what else I hate? NINJA MANNEQUINS. Of course, I've been to stores all my life, and was quite used to the traditional Mannequin Display, where a little cluster of mannequins would stand posed together in a special stage area, usually on top of a platform or something. But in the past few years in Finland, it's become edgy or in vogue to stick some mannequins in naturalistic poses, bring them down to floor level, and position them, often isolated, right in among the clothes, so that you typically don't notice right away that they aren't real people. AUUUGHH. WHY. Why do you need your mannequins to infiltrate? What's wrong with everyone knowing that the mannequin is a mannequin and people are people and never the twain shall meet?

And while I'm at it, Stockmann, why would you cover your male mannequins' lower faces AND CHESTS with spray glue and then dust them with little bits of chopped up nylon "hair"? IT'S GROSS AND IT LOOKS WAY LESS REALISTIC THAN PLAIN PLASTIC. Actually, it looks like he's just been to the barber and had an epic haircut while not wearing a bib. Although I can't really think of any explanation for why his face is covered with fuzz. Maybe he rubbed his face with a balloon and then rolled on one of those synthetic carpets that's always shedding.

Comments

[pierydys]

LMAO. I have never seen this atrociously hairy mannequins, but now I am determined to. You must point them out next time we get the chance. I might just need to take photos.

And the ninja mannequins? Have been all over Cali for the past decade, so I've gotten pretty used to them. The main problem I have with them is my tendency to bump into them and nearly knock over displays because I expect them to move when I come in their direction. Bleh.

Sigh. This also reminds me that I dearly miss my dress forms :-(

[cimorene]

It's odd because I don't find dolls creepy, but mannequins are quite creepy to me. I think it's because of how far away from realistic representations of people they are, but they're life-size, so the differences look even bigger!

We were in Stockmann recently and they had dressed a male mannequin in boxers and a bathrobe I think, and that was where I saw the horrifying fake chest hair situation. I don't know who there is responsible for this atrocity, but I hope they were suitably punished.