Wednesday, January 8, 2014

This Is A Little Fuckin' Weird (Right?)

Ok.  So , as you may know, it's the 75th anniversary of the release of The Wizard of Oz, and as a result there is a lot of new merchandise.  Some of it beautiful, some of it kind of cheesy, and some of it just this side of creepy.  The piece coming out by Enesco in August is a lot of both.  For example, below you can see the cute part...

 
 
Admittedly, it's a little bit Gramma's house.  A little bit, the Pipe World store that used to be at the mall where you can by little figurines of animals going into the ark, or carousel horses, or dragon sculptures wrapped around little glass jewels... but it's cute.  And then there's the rest of it...
 

 
 
What the fuck?  Right?  It's a little bit Toddlers and Tiaras.  A little bit, strippity-strip-strip.  A lil leggy.  Right???  I'm fucking creeped out.  She's not just wearing a shorter dress, which would be one thing, she's wearing a maxi and lifting it up to show you her "shoes".  I don't know.  Maybe, it's just me, but this had to give someone in the design phase pause.  You'd think.


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