Scarier than Studley...

[susie_flo]

A couple of weeks ago my personal dealer in knitting-related comedy (aka ms_siobhan ) sent me a couple of vintage gems in the post, that she had found while market surfing.  It would be rude not to share...
 
The first one is quietly terrifying...
 

   
 

In particular - this man is giving me nightmares.  (He is destined to become my new avatar for posts where I want to be very scary indeed.)


 

The second one is... er...  well...  what can I say?  
 

 


I may as well just zoom right in on the obvious bit and ask: do any of you have a cute little Aryan child for whom I can knit a golliwog hat?  (What?  No???  Really??  Oh go on... You know it's what all the cool kids are wearing.)
 


  
 

   
  

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Bloke on the right is TERRIFYING.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not just me...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

PS... totally off topic, but thank you for recommending the Bleeding Heart Bistro... I am a bit squiffy and have just arrived home, but it was a FABULOUS venue and I have had a wonderful evening :-)

Would def go there again.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it. I don't know many restaurants in London, but I've been lucky.

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

I work with someone who's in his fifties and has hair like that. It's terrifying.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I often want to ask people... WHERE do you even go to get hair like that in this day and age???

(There is a woman at work who dresses like Lady Di from 1982 and I would love to ask her the same Q... cos the shop that sells her outfits is a mystery to me)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

OMG - can you sneak a picture of her or in the unlikely event of me coming to that London engineer an introduction? I'd love to meet her. I think clothes like that come from a mix of dead relatives wardrobes and very small old fashioned department stores of the kind found in places like Axminster and Bridport ie seaside-ish retirement type places.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh, I suspect you're right about the department stores, there is one like it in Sidmouth!

Last time I saw her she had on a box pleated skirt, loafers and a white blouse with a high frill around the neck and a string of pearls. It was 100% purest Diane, you'd have loved it. :-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Knowing him only superficially I'd suggest it was hair that looked cool when he still cared about such things. He's now a socks-and-sandals academic so presumably cares much less.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I wonder if we are all destined to go this way... (maybe we already have and just don't realise it!) A lot of people certainly appear to just stop, fashion-wise, at whatever era they deem to have been their hey-day and from that point on simply refuse to move with the times.

I'm sure that's what has happened to the Di-alike at my work (she's about the right age, looks and poshness to have been a super-hot sloane in the early 80s... )

But really... maintaining a hairdo like the scary chap above takes *work*. There must be little barber shops all over the place, quietly carrying out these blow-dried quaffs, like a black market.

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Hairdressers too. I go to one! My hair has been the same since the 80s too, and I like it like that. Luckily long hair isn't so easy to date. (You could call that classic or timeless, or just plain untrendy ;-)

I think it helps somewhat to have hair of the Donald Trump brillo pad variety.

Makes you wonder how much it shrinks in the wet - the way a wet cat looks so pathetically skinny, he's probably practically bald...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh, I am just as bad... have had the same 'classic' hairdo for donkey's years :-)

I actually can't look at Donald Trump without my eyeballs bleeding. I think he may be the most disturbing looking man currently walking the planet...