This made me laugh. Actress Carey Mulligan with the latest accessory, shown in W Magazine.
Wouldn’t life be so much cuter and happier if we could put tiny woodland creatures on our hats or shoulders or in our hair? “Good morning, Loris! Oh my gosh, I LOVE your chipmunk!”
“Thanks, I have a really great squirrel that would go beautifully on that adorable hat you’re wearing.”
When I was toy shopping for gifts for the kids in the shelter we support, I found an adorable rabbit finger puppet. He had the most understanding expression I had ever seen on a toy. I’m thinking of wearing him on my hand when students come for conferences.
Yes, the picture is adorable. But what really strikes me is the desire to pass that girl a sandwich.
I wish they were! I’d wear my cat on a daily basis. She already drapes herself over me whenever I’m in the house… I get the feeling she might not mind being carried about in a pouch-type arrangement.
Unless, of course, the chipmunk is hiding there so he doesn’t fall onto the dress and become fashion roadkill…yikes!
It’s cute- and unlike my grandmother’s fox stole with the fox heads attached with their little beady eyes is guaranteed not to give a small child the creeps
I hear the training for them to sit still like that is what drives the price up.
Do you know, I thought one of the funniest moments in the movie “Gosford Park” was when Kristen Scott Thomas’s character criticizes her daughter for poor taste in what the girl is wearing, and in the next instant flings a dead fox (eyes, paws, and all) around her own neck. …I think I was the only one in the theater to laugh.
The chipmunk looks much healthier than the woman. Is TB the in look now?
I LOVE the expression on her face…hopefully it’s not repressed fear for the critter on her shoulder…
I love it–it is so Amy Sedaris. It isn’t real, is it?
It’s perfect! It’s probably there to distract the viewer from the hideous dress!
Cute chipmunk. Who’s the chica– a priestess of Anorexia?
I would wear a parrot on my shoulder, just to sent the message, “I may look like a fine, upstanding, professional woman, but don’t push me too far or I will totally GO PIRATE ON YOU!”
Wow, these comments contain lots of body snark and shaming for the slender model/actress…
Why is it okay to bash someone skinny but not someone fat? Can we keep it about the clothes/styling, please?
Cute little animal, just like the ones that become obnoxious little beggars at the campgrounds where people feed me. I also have a cat that likes to be worn, or likes to use me as a human cat tree or launching pad to the top of the fridge. Fortunately, she’s a small, slender cat about six and three-quarter pounds, so her acrobatics don’t hurt if her toenails have been kept clipped.
I’d hasten to point out that for a parrot on the shoulder, an additional accessory of a towel is required… (They don’t use a litter box.)
Yeah, that. The image is certainly photoshopped (and her right shoulder and arm look to have suffered in the process), but even so she doesn’t look sick/unhealthy to me – just slim, with a kind of goofy facial expression.
Yes, what Louise said. The folks making those comments would NEVER comment about someone being fat. And anorexic, really? Hardly, just a slim figure. Check out the rest of the photos http://www.celebitchy.com/197019/carey_mulligans_w_magazine_photo_shoot_gorgeous_or_overworked/
I think she looks very unhealthy. It was not a comment on her weight (she doesn’t look unusually thin to me, actually), but the white face (makeup?) and sunken eyes. This is not a criticism of her or her body, but of the fashion industry that is telling women: “You should look like this. This is what beauty is. This is what success is.” I’m going to keep right on bashing that when I see it.
Likewise, when a model who really is dangerously thin is held up as a standard of beauty (namely, by being paid a lot of money to sell clothes), I will criticize it. I would do the same if someone who was dangerously obese were given a modeling gig. Doesn’t happen, though, so it’s a moot point.
I also find the body shaming annoying. I have a very thin face myself (I just wish my belly was slim!) and have hollow cheeks and “sunken” eyes. It doesn’t mean I’m too thin anyway at all- it is simply the way I’m built. The actress doesn’t look unhealthily thin to me at all. Perhaps they lengthened her neck a bit?
No offense intended, Elizabeth. There are people who are very thin and perfectly healthy and happy. And it’s okay for some of them to be models. But let’s take a step back and look at the message fashion gives with its choice of models. They are all thin (unless they’re modeling fat-girl clothes, in which case they may be *slightly* overweight). Many of them are thin enough to make the casual onlooker wonder if they have an eating disorder. They do not represent the normal distribution of what healthy women look like, which would include some with a thin face, a long neck, hollow cheeks. They say, over and over, “Get thinner, women, so thin that you’re making yourself sick.” What these corporations are cynically doing to sell their stuff is body-shaming; calling them out for it is not.
Actually, so called “plus-size” models are about size 12 or 14, which is a reasonable size for a person of some height (over 5’7) with a large or medium bone structure at a healthy weight. To be six feet tall and still take a size 2 or zero would mean that one would have practically no bone structure, let alone flesh… It is not typical.
Since the should width is determined by the skeleton, properly sized tailored jackets must fit starting there. If the fashion industry (& 1-800-GET-THIN) are telling me that I need to lose three dress sizes, that is not a healthy message. Note that designer brands appear to be cut extra generously to flatter wealthy women. I own a silk blouse marked “size 8”, which is the ONLY single-digit think in my closed. In working class brands, I’d be about a 14, and in t-shirts, I buy a size L which is not tight fitting.
Actually one thing we contribute to, though it may not be the intention, through the carelessness of comments such as “pass that girl a sandwich” is the lack of peace and friendship amongst ourselves as women.
Actually one thing we contribute to, though it may not be the intention, through the carelessness of comments such as “pass that girl a sandwich” is the lack of peace and friendship amongst ourselves as women.
I was that skinny at 19 in 1972, people assume you are anorexic or ill, it was my metabolism I could eat anything and stay skinny unfortunately after I had my first baby this up and left me
What I am trying to convey is that, having been the skinny kid, it is as unfair to make remarks about sandwich needing as it is to remark about someone’s being large-