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Night of the Smiling Dead
I think it's extremely innovative of McCall's to use pattern models that are CLINICALLY DECEASED.
Like her:
And her:
Here she is again (after further decay):
I know it must be a handful for the photog assistants to get these gals strapped in and propped up, and I suspect that the smell wears you down after a long day of shooting. But corpses are edgy and hip and they save a ton on model fees.
Posted by Kimberly on September 22, 2005 | Permalink
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Though unfortunately, as with all models, they do have tendency to 'bloat' unexpectedly.
(i do like the dress at the end... but as i'm alive and need to carry my vital organs in my middle bit, it probably wouldnt look quite so good on me)
Posted by: happy spider | Sep 23, 2005 8:45:51 AM
Hey spidy I was thinking the same thing. I like the last dress.
Posted by: figmo | Sep 23, 2005 11:20:32 AM
I know why the top two are wearing gloves, it's to cover up those talons she call's fingernails. Is it just me, or are those puppies scary? Filed a little too sharp for my taste.
Posted by: toiletpaper | Sep 23, 2005 12:14:00 PM
Hey, you can't fool me! That one on top is Austin Scarlett!
Posted by: Badger | Sep 23, 2005 12:41:58 PM
I have The Fear.
Posted by: Kendra | Sep 23, 2005 1:00:17 PM
The timing must be tricky. You have to pose them when they're freshly dead, wait for rigor mortis, and then take the pictures before it passes. And airbrush out the flies.
Posted by: Marcia | Sep 23, 2005 2:36:50 PM
The first one isn't quite dead, yet. She's just taken to chasing her vodka with a formaldehyde back.
Posted by: Ashphalt | Sep 23, 2005 3:26:57 PM
Isn't that Bree from Housewives?!
Posted by: MonkeyGurrrrrl | Sep 23, 2005 4:17:03 PM
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be up and walking around. If nothing else Roger Corman movies have taught me that. And if you are dead and walking around why not enhance the financial side of the old estate a bit before you start your brain eating zombie career.
Posted by: Brent McKee | Sep 23, 2005 4:19:10 PM
it was the eyebrows that killed her!
Posted by: jes | Sep 23, 2005 4:41:11 PM
The last one looks like she's daydreaming about her dreamy zombie lover. She has that glassy eyed look. These women look like something straight out of a Tim Burton film. "Ed Wood" is the first to come to mind
Posted by: Annie | Sep 23, 2005 5:02:11 PM
And why has no one made sport of the head gear in the first pic?
What substance is that? What is she keeping stashed inside? And please tell me that is not a bow-tied fabric cord on top?
Posted by: RST | Sep 23, 2005 6:44:17 PM
RST: I only thought of the "head gear" after I sent my post. You're right..what the hell is that?? And, I think her brain is stashed in the top of that hat. The cord is holding it in until, she's deemed "too dead" to model anymore.
Posted by: Annie | Sep 23, 2005 6:48:36 PM
Actually, I think the "hat" is a cleverly disguised shroud. Once the poison has set in completely and she keels, the coroner can just pull out the excess fabric and cover the body. So morbid...and yet, so convenient!
Posted by: Tami | Sep 23, 2005 7:46:52 PM
Those models obviously died from inhaling the Joker's smiling poison...look at those demented smiles.
Posted by: karma | Sep 23, 2005 8:00:24 PM
I'm pretty sure that dress number three can only be achieved by those who have made substantial investments in industrial strength undergarments. Either that, or organ donation led to their living dead state.
Posted by: RST | Sep 23, 2005 9:18:36 PM
Who has to cut their ever-growing nails?
Posted by: kristin | Sep 24, 2005 1:25:15 PM
It's always good form to put bright red lipstick on the lips of the dead.
Posted by: beastarzmom | Sep 24, 2005 1:25:17 PM
Your site is incredibly funny and insightful. I'm linking, mostly for the sake of my mother, an accomplished seamstress who still managed to make me look like a total fool in homemade clothes.
Thank you for being so bitchy and just so damn funny.
Posted by: Fritz | Sep 25, 2005 9:32:38 AM
I can't get past the fact that these ladies are probably close to the age of my mother, who is now in her 70's. I hope they finally reached a financial point where they could say "To hell with you! I want to live!"
Posted by: | Sep 25, 2005 11:17:11 PM
Foolish Terrans! The "headgear" your write of is in reality the highly adaptive carapace of the Ghulman, dominant species of Kimchee IX in the Medrassian Custer. Ghulman take control of the newly deceased in order to gain entry to the economies of primitive worlds like your own. Hidden under its carapace the Ghulman is safe from detection...these models are the least of your worries, believe me. The Queen of England (then Crown Princess) passed away in her teens, long before her coronation, and since she ascended the throne her Ghulman master has...well, you watch television. You read. You know.
Oh, about model 3--you are correct about her lack of viscera. Sometimes a Ghulman's carapace is damaged and in the event plan B is to inhabit the abdominal cavity.
Posted by: phil | Sep 26, 2005 8:37:08 PM
All she needs is a little electricity in her life! I'd love to curl her hair with my electrode!
Posted by: Igor | Sep 27, 2005 11:57:57 AM
The first one looks positively enbalmed! Look at the make-up on that woman, looks drawn with pen & ink. The deranged smile ... its the mouth that gets to me, it's so wide and the teeth look worn and the lipstick looks clownish.
Posted by: Arcadia | Sep 27, 2005 5:08:47 PM
I love you, Mommy Dearest.
Posted by: krista | Sep 27, 2005 7:27:53 PM
I hope they are not ging to hang those dresses on "wire hangers"
Posted by: Donna | Sep 28, 2005 12:43:27 PM
dontchya think they look like b movie queens, and the bottom one has to be elvira before she got her wig!!!!!
Posted by: Deb | Nov 30, 2005 8:11:33 PM
no wait that was elvira before a boob job
Posted by: Deb | Nov 30, 2005 8:14:53 PM
jesus those eyebrows could cut butter
Posted by: Gunmetal Grey | Jul 14, 2008 4:19:32 PM
