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Night of the Smiling Dead

September 22, 2005 by Mary & Kimberly

I think it’s extremely innovative of McCall’s to use pattern models that are CLINICALLY DECEASED.

Like her:

Night_of_the_posing_dead_1_2

 

And her:

Night_of_the_posing_dead_2

Here she is again (after further decay):

Night_of_the_posing_dead_3

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 in 50's | 28 Comments

28 Responses

  1. on September 23, 2005 at 8:45 am happy spider

    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)


  2. on September 23, 2005 at 11:20 am figmo

    Hey spidy I was thinking the same thing. I like the last dress.


  3. on September 23, 2005 at 12:14 pm toiletpaper

    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.


  4. on September 23, 2005 at 12:41 pm Badger

    Hey, you can’t fool me! That one on top is Austin Scarlett!


  5. on September 23, 2005 at 1:00 pm Kendra

    I have The Fear.


  6. on September 23, 2005 at 2:36 pm Marcia

    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.


  7. on September 23, 2005 at 3:26 pm Ashphalt

    The first one isn’t quite dead, yet. She’s just taken to chasing her vodka with a formaldehyde back.


  8. on September 23, 2005 at 4:17 pm MonkeyGurrrrrl

    Isn’t that Bree from Housewives?!


  9. on September 23, 2005 at 4:19 pm Brent McKee

    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.


  10. on September 23, 2005 at 4:41 pm jes

    it was the eyebrows that killed her!


  11. on September 23, 2005 at 5:02 pm Annie

    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


  12. on September 23, 2005 at 6:44 pm RST

    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?


  13. on September 23, 2005 at 6:48 pm Annie

    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.


  14. on September 23, 2005 at 7:46 pm Tami

    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!


  15. on September 23, 2005 at 8:00 pm karma

    Those models obviously died from inhaling the Joker’s smiling poison…look at those demented smiles.


  16. on September 23, 2005 at 9:18 pm RST

    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.


  17. on September 24, 2005 at 1:25 pm kristin

    Who has to cut their ever-growing nails?


  18. on September 24, 2005 at 1:25 pm beastarzmom

    It’s always good form to put bright red lipstick on the lips of the dead.


  19. on September 25, 2005 at 9:32 am Fritz

    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.


  20. on September 25, 2005 at 11:17 pm Anonymous

    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!”


  21. on September 26, 2005 at 8:37 pm phil

    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.


  22. on September 27, 2005 at 11:57 am Igor

    All she needs is a little electricity in her life! I’d love to curl her hair with my electrode!


  23. on September 27, 2005 at 5:08 pm Arcadia

    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.


  24. on September 27, 2005 at 7:27 pm krista

    I love you, Mommy Dearest.


  25. on September 28, 2005 at 12:43 pm Donna

    I hope they are not ging to hang those dresses on “wire hangers”


  26. on November 30, 2005 at 8:11 pm Deb

    dontchya think they look like b movie queens, and the bottom one has to be elvira before she got her wig!!!!!


  27. on November 30, 2005 at 8:14 pm Deb

    no wait that was elvira before a boob job


  28. on July 14, 2008 at 4:19 pm Gunmetal Grey

    jesus those eyebrows could cut butter



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