dolores666's photos with the keyword: Fashion

When the little mafioso Worm of a few illustrations back showed up at a political gathering in a bowler hat he started a trend. Lately every other small creature that creeps, crawls, wiggles, wriggles, swings, sways and sashays in the Far Borders is sporting one. Panamas and Porkpies, Tops and Trilbies, Bowlers, Boaters, Borsalinos, Fedoras, Pamelas, Cloches, Bonnets and Bergères, you name it, there goes a tiny organism wearing a classic headpiece -in many cases far too big for its bijou frame, but there's fashion for you: inevitable, insidious and often ridiculous but always good for a laugh. I mean, if you've never seen a ladybird in a Cordobés or a jumping spider in a Ten-Gallon ... well then, you haven't half lived, that's what I think. Minuto, the Deeply Red Teddy, thinks this fashion caper is all an evil plot. A malevolent conspiracy concocted and instigated by the Market Forceps to give the differently-sized a bad name. And we all know how the story goes from this point on, do we not? Once you've acquired a bad reputation it soon becomes abominable and therefore it's easier to start screeching about mortal threats to Our Wonderful Way of Life and therefore talking sanctions and suggesting no-flight zones and proposing jackass boots on the ground and even hinting at nukular missages. Minuto is nobody's fool.

Perhaps I ought to dedicate this to the memory of Amada Lear. But perhaps I won't. The Uppity Ante's name is Mary Lou. May her tribe live long and prosper and give all the pretentious prats in the universe what for! The little fellow with the rope around his neck is Freddy, the hardy perennial survivor of several attempted lynchings by various autocratic factions. He wears the rope as a sign of defiance. He is one of my representatives of all the other, unsung and clearly undeserving, victims of all the other numerous holocausts, past and current, wot are never remembered, let alone celebrated or assigned pretty paper poppies and things. And if anybody still thinks this pic is about Versace or Jimmy Choos, please think again.