Strange Bedfellows

[shereads]

If, a dozen years ago, someone had said to me, "Name two pop culture images that will never appear together, and if it hasn't happened by April 2004, we'll pay you $1 million," I would confidently have answered:

"That's easy! Bob Dylan and sexy lingerie."

So now that Bob Dylan is providing the soundtrack for a Victoria's Secret campaign...

Is there anything so unlikely that you're 100% sure it won't happen? Let's hear it. And if we meet back here in 2010 and it still hasn't happened, I'll ask Bob Dylan to give you $1 million.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Walt Disney's frozen head is rumored to be interested in the next Victoria's Secret ad campaign.

---dr.M.

 

[cloudy]

The thought of "Camilla Parker-Bowles" used in the same sentence with "Victoria's Secret" gives me one of those full-body shudders. Yuck!

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Yup...I'm with Cloudy on this one. CPB shouldn't step one foot near a Vic's ad campaign. :eeeeeewwwww:

~lucky

 

[shereads]

Yup...I'm with Cloudy on this one. CPB shouldn't step one foot near a Vic's ad campaign. :eeeeeewwwww:

~lucky

So you and Cloudy are down with Disney's frozen head? Or Ashcroft?

 

[Liar]

Queen E.

As a model.

#L

 

[minsue]

Queen E.

As a model.

#L

Gawd, I wish I hadn't read that right before bed! *desperately trying to banish the mental image before sleep*

 

[Liar]

Gawd, I wish I hadn't read that right before bed! *desperately trying to banish the mental image before sleep*

Mwahahah.

#L - Bringer Of Nightmares

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Women, wear your pantyhose..."

I think Eminem will step up.

 

[Guest]

Proud to follow Flicka, I can see Em doing it (rough). I was done with Dylan a long time ago, was not stunned, but disappointed, yeah.

P.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

So you and Cloudy are down with Disney's frozen head? Or Ashcroft?

Well when I posted that, I didn't think Disney's frozen head was an option. Of course, I'm not down with that! Then again, head and lingerie often go together so it's still a possibility...

Ashcroft? No worries there. This whole convo will be pointless if he has his way and his buddies in the FCC have anything to say about it. Bra advertisements will be a thing of the past.

~lucky

 

[SensualCealy]

If Walt is participating does that mean they will have 'show' tunes during the parade of lingerie?

When you wish upon a star....
Hi HOOOOOEEEE, Hi HOOOOOOEEEE of to work we go...

Those are the only two I could think of off the top of my head!
Cealy

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Jimi Hendrix

The only problem being this is one of Shereads "send-up" threads, and using JH might actually work.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Pure]

Ashcroft in a 'sheik' or 'durex' ad.

GWB in an ad for the Betty Ford Center.

Cheney in a Viagra ad.

Kerry in an ad for Buddhist Prayer Retreat in Cambodia.

 

[shereads]

Well when I posted that, I didn't think Disney's frozen head was an option. Of course, I'm not down with that! Then again, head and lingerie often go together so it's still a possibility...

Ashcroft? No worries there. This whole convo will be pointless if he has his way and his buddies in the FCC have anything to say about it. Bra advertisements will be a thing of the past.

~lucky

Oh, to be young again! Oh, to not be the one who remembers the pre-nekkid era of television...

Back in the day, when my mom's generation were buying an armor-clad foundation undergarment designed to support an area of the female body called the "bust," bra commercials used headless/armless mannequin torsos to model the device.

There must have been complaints about the slutty naked-flesh color of these plastic tabletop torsos (from Grandma Ashcroft?) because I remember that the torsos wore a stretchy opaque t-shirt under the bra; sort of an under-the-undergarment garment. I'm not sure how old I was, but I remember wondering why my mom didn't wear one of those stretchy undershirts under her bra. Somehow I came to the conclusion that no one did, and that the people who made the commercials didn't like ladies' bodies, and they were covering up the plastic skin because they were prudes.

It was my first cynical thought.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

How about Nanny Bush doing commercials for Victoria's Secret support hose?

 

[cloudy]

Oh, to be young again! Oh, to not be the one who remembers the pre-nekkid era of television...

Back in the day, when my mom's generation were buying an armor-clad foundation undergarment designed to support an area of the female body called the "bust," bra commercials used headless/armless mannequin torsos to model the device.

There must have been complaints about the slutty naked-flesh color of these plastic tabletop torsos (from Grandma Ashcroft?) because I remember that the torsos wore a stretchy opaque t-shirt under the bra; sort of an under-the-undergarment garment. I'm not sure how old I was, but I remember wondering why my mom didn't wear one of those stretchy undershirts under her bra. Somehow I came to the conclusion that no one did, and that the people who made the commercials didn't like ladies' bodies, and they were covering up the plastic skin because they were prudes.

It was my first cynical thought.

This is so funny!

I worked as a merchandiser for JCPenney years ago, and part of my job was seeing to the mannequins in my departments.

One of those depts was the pre-teen girls area, and I had three mannequins that had to be "designed" every season (actually more often than that, but you get the idea)

When swimsuits arrived in the store, I did my mannequins up with suits and all the trimmings. I had an older lady that was my assistant, and every morning I would come into work and find my pre-teen mannequins demurely coverd by towels draped strategically over them.

Finally found out what the problem was. Seems my mannequins had small "nipples" that showed slightly since swimsuits are not thick material, and my assistant found it "showing too much," in her words.

We fought over this for days - I was not trying to sell towels but swimsuits! Finally had to threaten her with disciplinary action (as much as I didn't want to) to keep her from covering the mannequins with towels every time she worked.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

This is so funny!

I worked as a merchandiser for JCPenney years ago, and part of my job was seeing to the mannequins in my departments.

One of those depts was the pre-teen girls area, and I had three mannequins that had to be "designed" every season (actually more often than that, but you get the idea)

When swimsuits arrived in the store, I did my mannequins up with suits and all the trimmings. I had an older lady that was my assistant, and every morning I would come into work and find my pre-teen mannequins demurely coverd by towels draped strategically over them.

Finally found out what the problem was. Seems my mannequins had small "nipples" that showed slightly since swimsuits are not thick material, and my assistant found it "showing too much," in her words.

We fought over this for days - I was not trying to sell towels but swimsuits! Finally had to threaten her with disciplinary action (as much as I didn't want to) to keep her from covering the mannequins with towels every time she worked.

I had the same problem when I did mannequins, I did a display that was on the ceiling perched on a piece of gridding for activewear, a woman wanted me to take it down because her son could see the nipples poking through.......I didn't.
He's probably the same little bastard that years later was caught fondling himself in the lingerie dept.
People used to grope the mannequins, could never figure that one out?

~A~

 

[cloudy]

I had the same problem when I did mannequins, I did a display that was on the ceiling perched on a piece of gridding for activewear, a woman wanted me to take it down because her son could see the nipples poking through.......I didn't.
He's probably the same little bastard that years later was caught fondling himself in the lingerie dept.
People used to grope the mannequins, could never figure that one out?

~A~

Got a mannequin story even better than that.

Some of ours were the old-style ones that you had to pull one of their legs off by twisting and then pulling to get it off to put a pair of pants or whatever on them (sounds gruesome, I know).

Anyway, one of my mannequins was extremely hard to get apart, so I called the guy working security that night to help me.

When he got there, I said "just grab her there (indicating between her legs), and I'll do the twist and pull thing."

He blushed the brightest shade of red I've ever seen, and refused! He wasn't going to grab her between the legs!! I kept trying to explain that it was just a damn piece of plastic, but no amount of talk could convince him. I finally had to switch places just to get the stupid thing apart.

Amazing.