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10:03 February 26th, 2008

High fashion: chicks on sticks!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Once again, the fashion world shows us its innovative side, with a model on stilts at a major style show. They say by autumn, stilts will be a standard fashion accessory. I see trouble:

  • Stilt-women extend through open car sunroof, a bummer at low underpasses
  • Ceiling height in many Applebee’s bathroom stalls is only eight feet
  • Novelty shops are FULL of gags to play on stilt-walkers - don’t be a victim!
  • The sound of sticks on crisp fallen leaves is a known wolverine mating call

stilts-300.jpgA model presents a creation by British designer Vivienne Westwood as part of her Fall/Winter 2008/09 women’s ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris February 25, 2008. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

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13 comments so far

You shouldn’t model outfits when you’re high.

- Posted by Lady Weasel

This is why they call it haute couture!

- Posted by Charlene

She obviously lost a bet!

- Posted by Dee T

It’s not ready to wear if you have to climb on a roof to ‘dress.’ Am I being too critical?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Blast! Someone already burned Connery’s boat scene from Highlander.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

The NBA just isn’t ready for atheletes with prosthetics.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

It’s called a mumumu.

Cause it’s longer than a mumu.

never mind

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Got factory seconds from the stiletto heel shoe factory again, eh, Marcia?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Pull your pranks, sure, but every lumberjack knows to beware kickback.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Whaddaya mean, that’s not a shaolin monk?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

They never offer a scarf or a shawl drink. That would just be creepy. Or a golashes drink. I’ll bet you could get drunk with a catheter drink but I’m never going to volunteer to be a test subject. Has anybody ever spiked an enema with tequila or everclear? That’s just weird, even for me. I think I’m thirsty for an umbrella drink is the point and it’s making me loopy. Loopy, I tell you.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Sally suffered the misfortune to fall slip off the high catwalk while walking on the stilts. Lucky for her, underneath the dress she wore parachute pants.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Just when you feel safe from cleavege gawkers, you got your up-skirters taking advantage. It just doesn’t seem fair.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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