1930s Fashion Slaughterhouse

[jake_fink]

And let's not mention that little "souvenir" someone yanked off of Napoleon's corpse.
fftopic:

The one that now resembles a seahorse? :whistling

 

[KAT]

I'd love to, but not a few of the folks around here might be, er, offended by the subject.

ahhh whatever ..PM to me lol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

The one that now resembles a seahorse? :whistling

A dessicated seahorse, yes.

Back in 1977, John K. Lattimer, professor emeritus and former chairman of urology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, bought "it" at auction for $3,000.


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[Baron Kurtz]

It only got $3000.

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

That's more than mine gets.

fftopic:

 

[scotrace]

One such lock had quite journey, and lead to quite a discovery.

Lead, get it, not led. lol

Anyway, check it out:

http://www.beethovenshair.ca/flash.html

I read the book. Interesting tale...

 

[LolitaHaze]

I must admit... I like the hissing cockroach broach! Although paying $80 for a $1 bug and no more than $3 in crystal rhinestones seem a bit too much for me. Especially when I have rhinestones already!

 

[Story]

Here's another one for the list, although it isn't from the 1930s:


-- A mid-19th century set of men's shirt studs. Made with (ready?) the carapaces of scarab beetles:

Great. Watch out for the midnight crowd murmurring "Im Ho Tep...Im Ho Tep... Im Ho Tep..."

 

[Marc Chevalier]

lol lol lol

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Or worse, "Bubba Ho-Tep..." lol








(Actually, I loved that film)

 

[MoxieGrl]

The Victorians (and before - but it took off then) wore hair jewelry. Rings, necklaces, bracelets, etc., made from carefully washed, trimmed and braided locks of hair from a deceased loved one.

Actually, it wasn't always made from a deceased person's hair. It was common to make hair jewlery out of your own hair, a living family members, for someone else out of your own hair, or even complete strangers hair. They were fashionable accessories, after all!

Atomicblonde- I am actually learning how to do hair jewlery now. There is a fabulous book called "The Art of Hair Work" By Mark Campbell that is very instructive.

Ok, now the live cockroach brooch is just disturbing. *shudders* What if you lean back suddenly and your little friend is in the way? No more brooch? Ick!
-Stormi

 

[funneman]

My grandfather was into taxidermy. I always remember his house was filled with the strangest looking dead animals.

I still remember seeing a huge stuffed owl sitting on a tree branch with a stuffed field mouse under his right claw. When my grandmother died, my cousin took the owl and kept it for years, it finally fell apart.

But the weirdest by far was his strange fascination with alligators. To be sure, they were quite plentiful in the forties and fifties here in Florida.

He would stuff baby alligators so they stood on their hind legs, literally shove an electrical cord up their butt, and stick a light socket in their mouth, his idea of a nightlight. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and finding your way to the bathroom by the light of the stuffed gator! I did so for years.

Probably explains a lot about me!

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I find monkey fur coats/trim to be rather disturbing, as the fur is *very* similar to human hair.

 

[scotrace]

My god that's horrifying.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

And it really does feel and look like human hair in person--yuck!

 

[Rosie]

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-- Mink heads (with glass eyes), paws and tails wrapped around ladies' shoulders.

Please add your own horrors to this list ...

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Last year, a friend of my mother's knowing that I admire vintage items sent me a box of goodies. Of course I was excited, new stuff, who knows what I'll find. There were a couple of nice brooches, some necklaces, etc. Then on the bottom was a fur piece, I was excited because I had wanted a wrap around fox fur, but when I pulled this thing out, I screamed , and threw it across the room, literally. It had a head, eyes, and feet , I totally wasn't expecting that and, it reminded me way too much of my dog. There was no way I could wear that thing. To this day, it sits in a box in the bottom of a closet I barely ever go into and, my winter blankets are stacked on top of it.

 

[decodoll]

I find monkey fur coats/trim to be rather disturbing, as the fur is *very* similar to human hair.

Yeah, they really do, and it's really wierd. We were just looking at one at the Vintage Expo a couple of weeks ago. I think I read, though, that many of them are not actual monkey fur, but out of a breed of goat that looks and feels the same.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

This is the information I have found on them--looks like the particular type monkey they used was hunted almost to extinction!
http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/furs/monkey.html

 

[artdecodame]

This is the information I have found on them--looks like the particular type monkey they used was hunted almost to extinction!
http://www.vintagefashionguild.org/furs/monkey.html

Those poor furry animals used for clothing...yet they looked so good in the movies back then!!

 

[jamespowers]

My god that's horrifying.

Yes, but think of all those bald men out there (noit in here) looking longingly at it. "If I had that on my head it would make me look twenty years younger."

Regards to all,

J