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With Apologies To The Lovin' Spoonful.
Hot town, summer in the city
Taco salad shell on my head, thought it looked pretty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a mirror in the city
All around, people looking goofy
Why'd I put this on, did someone slip me a roofie
But at night anything flies
Put on pants with a 16-inch rise
Come-on come-on and stare at the sky
Despite the heat just give it a try
And babe, we can't always be witty
But we try, with this dumb little ditty
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city....
Posted by Mary on August 4, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
This is awesome.
What is bra girl looking at? Her own shadow, captured by the photographer? I love how the bra top also needs a long sleeved jacket.
Also, my mom wanted hats like that- in mint green- for her bridesmaids in '76. Cooler heads (grandma) prevaled.
Posted by: Mary | Aug 4, 2006 1:44:58 PM
[Applause]
Posted by: MrBaliHai | Aug 4, 2006 2:07:32 PM
They are trying to walk up that incline (a plank?), but are suffering from Tampax gait (the ugly truth not revealed with Tampax stance direction booklet.)
Posted by: RST | Aug 4, 2006 2:31:43 PM
Mary - My mom had those hats, in lime green, for her bridesmaids! She also gave them mood-stone necklaces, man, the 70's was groovy.
And I think bra-girl is staring at horror at her friend's hat, and wondering why anyone would crochet a giant ruffly hat out of blue and yellow baling twine.
Posted by: Barbiturate Cat | Aug 4, 2006 3:05:41 PM
The hat just doesn't go with the rest of the outfit. It really does belong on a bridesmaid - one with long, straight hair parted in the center and wearing a groovy, 60's style floral dress.
Bra girl looks like she's seen an alien spaceship coming in and is frozen in horror wondering what will happen next.
Posted by: | Aug 4, 2006 3:31:23 PM
Bra girl is actually practicing stances before she starts her new job as a camoflaged security guard at a flower show. As for hat girl I don't know what to say except they did some really nasty drugs back in those days and she looks like she mixed prescriptions.
Posted by: Brent | Aug 4, 2006 4:05:44 PM
Hat girl thought, hey, if it's funny to wear a lampshade on your head, how much FUNNIER is it if you CROCHETED that lampshade?
Posted by: Marcia | Aug 4, 2006 4:36:07 PM
These girls are obviously Parrotheads getting ready for a Jimmy Buffet concert. That totally explains the taco salad shell hat, the flowery bra-as-a-top ensemble, and the vacant, "Wasting away again in Margaritaville" stares. Bra-as-a-top girl is searching for her lost shaker of salt somewhere on the top shelf.
Posted by: Sputnik | Aug 4, 2006 4:45:47 PM
My word. I wonder if the hat was a misguided attempt to cover up that terrible haircut, over which the hat doesn't quite seem to fit. And it's a BIG hat. What size is this poor woman's head? I love their traumatised expressions. It's as if by not making eye contact with each other or the photographer they can avoid acknowledging the full demeaning horror of finding yourself angling your crotch perkily in THAT.
Posted by: Emmeline | Aug 4, 2006 4:53:33 PM
Why are their eyes all bugged out? Have they just been goosed?
Posted by: Yorkie | Aug 4, 2006 6:18:00 PM
Hey no one has mentioned the fact that the flower power flare pants are soooooo flooders! Wouldn't be caught dead in them - no....for flares were only to be worn so long that no one could see your bare feet!
By the way - I just "tripped" over your site and can hardly breathe from laughing so much! Now maybe my daughters can sort of understand where I came from - hee hee! Thanks for all your hard work ladies!
Posted by: Meow57 | Aug 4, 2006 8:10:43 PM
I always wonder how pattern girls could make thier feet go in one direction thier legs go another, their abdomens face another, thier torsos face another and thier heads face another. They look a little twisted to me. Like red licorice vines. Its a job-getting modeling trick, all the best pattern models do it. Then I remember these are just blow-up rubber dolls from that Idaho group, they are more twisty than real people. Oh, to be so malable.
Posted by: Daffy | Aug 4, 2006 8:18:55 PM
hat girl looks like her body is 2 differnt people , it looks 5 sizes bigger from the waist down and yeah no self respecting pair of flared pants would be 6 inches too short....i guess they screwed up and used it in the rise by mistake those pants should be sitting right on the hip bones, too.......gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm old!! i'm old!! shoot meeeeeeeeeeee
Posted by: punxxi | Aug 5, 2006 2:23:03 PM
Why did hat girl waste so much pomade on her hair when she was going to cover it with the big ass hat?! and to think there is a pattern out there for the hat...
Posted by: B.J. | Aug 6, 2006 2:01:45 AM
Bra Girl is thinking that the only thing worse than wearing high-water pants would be to have to also wear the hat.
And which city in the summer are they in? because I think the government needs to issue a Travel Advisory for us to stay the heck away from whichever city it is.
Posted by: Kathryn | Aug 6, 2006 2:42:37 AM
Warning: If you do not like the pattern on bra-girl, do not, I repeat, do not go back-to-school shopping in your local department store.
The pasley is everywhere.
What's more, I kind of groove on it, in moderation. ... I even purchased a pair of flair legged jeans with the proper down to the floor hem-length.
As to the hat. If there is a merciful God, the style will never return.
Posted by: SageHen | Aug 6, 2006 4:29:50 PM
I think bra girl used to be a model in the Sears Catalogue in the early 70s. She had a single facial expression (the one you see here.)
Posted by: Bell | Aug 6, 2006 5:31:01 PM
OMG!! How funny is this? You girls rock! BTW: Love that FUGLY hat!!
Posted by: Annie | Aug 6, 2006 6:31:03 PM
Hey! That's the chick version of the crocheted beercan hat!
Posted by: severina | Aug 6, 2006 8:09:35 PM
The Real Scoop: the traditional classic beer can hat is crocheted out of polyester yarn and beer cans,two basic staples in any man's life.
This taco bowl hat is crocheted out of all of those extra plastic grocery bags that women stash in little hand made decorator bags until they have stuffed them with so many that they have no more excuses but to sit down and crochet more things: purses, scatter rugs, and hats, nice breezy summer hats.
Posted by: Daffy | Aug 7, 2006 10:36:09 AM
The hat is so delightfully ruffly! It'd be great for a Barbie doll.
Posted by: Jenzilla | Aug 7, 2006 10:52:45 AM
Bra Girl has screamed to the photographer that the tsunami is headed their way! However, he insists that he's not giving up until he captures a more life-like look for Hat Girl!
Posted by: robertajune | Aug 7, 2006 11:29:55 AM
Anyone notice that Bra Girl's pants are very slightly too small for her?
Posted by: James | Aug 7, 2006 3:30:58 PM
I agree. Bra Girl has a mini version of the always attractive muffin top going on.
Posted by: CJK | Aug 7, 2006 4:07:24 PM
I think the hat performs some kind of mind control because look at that stunned, submissive expression on the wearer's face. I'm sure bra girl, bolstered with courage from the bright print outfit, is working out how to help her escape from the hat.
Posted by: Laurie | Aug 7, 2006 5:13:24 PM
Of course, when she gets tired of wearing it as a hat, she can turn it upside down, insert a jar (or empty beer can) and use it as a vase! Groovy.
Posted by: Nana | Aug 7, 2006 5:43:27 PM
I'm not so sure that "the hat" is so much being worn, per se, as much as it is dangling from the ceiling by an invisible thread and the model is just sort of leaning into it with the back of her head.
Reminds me of the toilet paper roll hats, except this one is perhaps made for rolls of paper towels? Like the plunger: just because it fits on your head, that doesn't mean it's a hat!
Bra girl looks like she's been holding that pose a bit too long and is muttering under her breath, over and over again, "Hurry up and take the picture! Hurry up and take the picture! I can't hold on much longer!"
And what is hat girl doing with her left hand, cupped upward at the waist like that? Is there a leak in the ceiling at the studio, and she's catching the drips? Trying nonchalantly to hold up her too-big-in-the-waist pants? Is she hinting that she's not making enough as a pattern model and needs a handout from the generous passersby?
Posted by: Allen | Aug 7, 2006 5:48:41 PM
Ruffle-hat girl might as well be wearing a sign that reads, "I'm wearing this ginormous hat to distract you from the fact that I'm not wearing any panties."
Posted by: Lois | Aug 7, 2006 9:42:46 PM
So very fine. You are my new obsession.
Posted by: Oh, The Joys | Aug 7, 2006 9:49:15 PM
Quite a lovely ditty, girls!
Brace yourselves, it's all coming back in.
Posted by: shelley Noble | Aug 8, 2006 3:44:24 AM
Oh, God, that hat looks like one of those tacky dolls with the big crocheted dresses some old ladies like to have sitting on their beds!
Posted by: mom2fur | Aug 8, 2006 5:27:44 PM
Do you think bra girl only did this photo shoot to earn enough money for a boob job? Flatter than a flitter she be!!
Posted by: toiletpaper | Aug 9, 2006 4:17:40 PM
If hat girl is number 6451 and bra girl is 6501 can you just imagine all the delightful pattern girls and get-ups there are in between that we are missing out on? Boggles the mind. Maybe crochet summer shorts, or panty hose tee shirts, or macrame bras...let your imagination soar!
Posted by: underwaterblues | Aug 10, 2006 11:20:53 AM
Lyrics=genius. I am always amazed with your talent.
When I was but a teen, I tried to make the 1960's bra top using a pattern my mom had. It didn't work, probably because I had the figure of a 10-year-old boy.
Is it a bra? A bathing suit top? WTF?
Posted by: allison | Aug 10, 2006 12:45:30 PM
Well, the hat is good for one thing. No one has noticed the chick has ginormous ears!
Posted by: Lisa | Aug 11, 2006 12:27:37 AM
oh dear, i haven't been by in a while & i just SNORTED really loudly while laughing at some particular posts... such as a pirate standing in the Tampax pose!
SNORT! (that's a compliment)
*e
Posted by: coffee-drinker | Aug 11, 2006 1:34:38 AM
Judging by the awkward shadows and bulges right below Hat Girl's waist, that striped top is actually an example of the dreaded snap-crotch bodysuit.
And my granny used to crochet "floppy" hats and rag rugs out of old plastic bread bags. They were remarkably sililar to that hat. I had a lovely, burnt orange creation made from Roman Meal sacks. Bless her crochetin' old heart.
Posted by: dimestore lipstick | Aug 11, 2006 2:59:28 PM
Long live the plastic bag recylers, and up with the plastic bag crochet hats!!
Bring out the crochet hooks, kids; let's whip up some matching purses and matching plastic bag summer shorts.
After all recycling saves forests.
Posted by: juju | Aug 11, 2006 5:09:05 PM
I think you're pretty witty.
In the summer.
In the city.
Isn't it a pity
That's it's been a few days since your last post?
(I mean that in a good way.)
Carry on.
Posted by: Oblivious Maven | Aug 14, 2006 10:46:29 PM
Try as I might, I simply cannot imitate Hat Girl's pose. I can't make my head, torso, shoulders, legs, and arms point in different directions, nor can I make my hand do what hers is doing on her left hip. These must be the things they teach in Pattern Model School, but only in advanced classes. (Hip Jutting 201: lessons in pointing the pelvis and torso in opposite directions while staring off into space.)
Posted by: Lois | Aug 15, 2006 11:47:53 PM
I told you, I told you! These pattern girls look a lot like real girls, but when you look closely they are just misformed blow-up rubber dolls rented from those weired cults who don't like real wimmen. Real wimmen scare them, these rubber dolls scare us. See? That's the difference between "them" and "us"...people who buy and appreciate these patterns are not "us"; they are "them" and unless we want this world to get any crazier we have to spread this blog around to try to help the "thems" of the world see the stupidness of their ways and their styles. Our assignment is....no more sleeping on the job, this is an important thing we are doing!
Posted by: Daffy | Aug 16, 2006 10:54:00 AM
Stop! please! Oh no don't stop! You ladies are so damn funny I've peed my pants.
Posted by: Su | Aug 16, 2006 4:42:46 PM
wow! how is it that I haven't discovered your amazing blog??? it's so great I've just spent a hour reading and emailing friends about the posts. We've just started a new blog directory, www.delightfulblogs.com and I would so love to have you submit threadbared. We need more craft/knitting blogs that have a sense of humor.
best,
Lynda
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Posted by: Lynda K. | Aug 16, 2006 8:44:48 PM
quote: Also, my mom wanted hats like that- in mint green- for her bridesmaids in '76.
My mum HAD hats like that for her bridesmaids, in lilac, in '72. The also wore floaty, garish kaftan things as bridesmaid dresses. My mum has an odd sense of humour...
I think bra girl is actually only tipping her head back to avoid her sunglasses falling down and bonking her on the nose.
Posted by: Athene | Aug 17, 2006 7:55:18 AM
Ah yes - The Lovin' Spoonful - They were popular around the time this site was last posted to, weren't they?
Posted by: Wendy | Aug 17, 2006 8:50:20 AM
2 weeks since a new post. Withdrawal! Need another fix!
Kimberly and Mary, see what you've created?
Posted by: | Aug 17, 2006 11:29:04 AM
I'm beginning to loathe those two models...let's move on.
Posted by: Ellie | Aug 18, 2006 10:41:05 AM
Shhhhh....Don't anger the goddesses of Threadbared - they might pull a You Knit What? and leave us bereft of snarky.
The more time that passes, the more nervous I get.
Posted by: infantkittensyringe | Aug 18, 2006 7:00:21 PM
While you're waiting....endlessly...for the next pattern pic, check this out. Extremely funny!!
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
Posted by: | Aug 19, 2006 1:37:15 PM
Is that hat edible after the day is over?
Posted by: JuJu | Aug 28, 2006 11:48:17 AM
I stumbled upon your website while looking for fashions from the 1960's and fell in love with it ! My mother crocheted hats like these along with a few other things I've seen on your website. Oh, the stuff she tried to get me to wear !!! Love your comments on each one- your very funny !
Great Website- brings back memories.
Posted by: Mad4Mod | Feb 25, 2007 1:36:33 PM
Was Bra Girl was Coleene or Colleen or sister Molly Corby?
Why would I remember that when I can't even name today's models?
Posted by: Margaret | Jun 4, 2007 2:24:38 PM
