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Tell me what this outfit is supposed to be, and if you are correct, you’ll win the pattern for it. Warning: this may be a question with no right answer!
 
Notice how the model has her hair Dippity-dooed into two nice stiff ponytails, almost like inverted Viking helmut horns? To me she looks like she listens to a lot of Danish Heavy Metal, and Celtic Frost is the only band in that category I know of. So this is her Celtic Frost head-banging outfit. She lays out a smorgasbord full of pickled herring and caraway studded cheeses, invites the gang over, and they proceed to thrash around to the wails of Thomas G. Warrior, fueled by Aquavit and tympani drums.
 
The era of this photo, 1969, is about twenty years too early for that scenario, but if you have a better idea, please let me know.
 
Lucky Find Salvage Company rescued this classic photo (and 6 others almost as odd) from a box of (so-called) junk at an estate sale. Given the amount of sewing notions in this box, as well as a telltale name badge that said, “Joan Smith, Instructor, Washington University School of Fashion Design,” we here at the Gazette have surmised that the deceased Ms. Smith had at one time taught young people how to make clothes, and that the fashions in these pix are the long lost works of some early contenders for Project Runway fame.
 
Why else would anyone pose in front of the St. Louis Zoo bear pits on a cold winter’s day in an outfit made of brass-studded naugahyde and suede? There obviously had to be some kind of Designer Challenge going on, like Make The Ugliest Outfit You Can Possibly Imagine. (The girl in white looks like she’s clad in paper! No wonder she needs a head wrap! Brrrr!)
 
 
Page Seven, Issue One
CONTEST QUESTION! What the hell is she wearing?
A naugahyde corset would keep anyone warm throughout those endless Scandinavian
winter nights.