“100 and one faces”

Cooool.

Thanks to Chip Dogg.

Christmas sweaters: why won’t they just DIE?!?!?

I’m baffled by the Christmas sweater tradition.  They’re hideous, yet popular.  Is it a generational thing?  Ethnicity?  Do women lose their sense of fashion once they hit menopause?  One of my new favorite blogs, Catastrophe, published a collection of these handmade-horrors.  Check out the full collection here.

Obama haircut. I don’t know what to say to this…..

Sent by a friend. No context. Perhaps it’s better that way.

Superhero Fashion Emergency

1 or 2 NSFW words.

Plastic wigs. I suppose they last longer than weaves.

Wow. More at Boing Boing.

New Miss London, a size 12 model, was repeatedly turned away from modeling agencies for being “too big.”

“I have tried to get into modelling,” she said. “But I have been turned away as I’m apparently too big to be a regular model. I’ve been told I’m too fat and I need to lose weight. One agent told me I would have to work hard to achieve the gaunt look he was after.

Enjoy an actual meal and read more of this very sad story here

For perspective, the model below Alice Burdeu is a size 2 (U.S.), and is “big” compared to the size 0’s that have been walking catwalks around the world for the last several years.