Here’s a little guessing game. This is a salt or pepper shaker: So what do you think its companion shaker might be? I suspect that most people would guess the other part of this pair would be another similarly doughy creature–possibly, in the light of the associations between salt and pepper and black and white,Continue reading “For a Spicy Experience, First Take the Pants Off”
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Shake Your Booty
In recent posts, I’ve been talking about animals and other objects depicted in salt and pepper shakers as wearing various items of human clothing. This time, I’m going to look at a set that depicts a more or less human-like being who isn’t wearing quite enough clothing. I begin with the actual shakers: Readers whoContinue reading “Shake Your Booty”
An Odd (Really Odd) Couple in Lots of Clothing
I’m fairly well convinced that this pair was always intended as a shaker set, because their colour palette is more or less the same: the same dark green, with dark pink accents–and the smaller one’s face is the same brown as the larger one’s hair and shoes: But for all that, they areContinue reading “An Odd (Really Odd) Couple in Lots of Clothing”
Pantless and Topless, But with a Strategically Placed Towel
In response to my earlier post about a pantless pair of pigs and the phenomenon of pantlessness in humanized depictions of animals in cartoons, children’s books, and elsewhere, my friend Tina Hanlon made this comment: I wonder if it has something to do with pants being a more recent invention than cloaks/shirts/robes of various kinds.Continue reading “Pantless and Topless, But with a Strategically Placed Towel”
Scarfs Make the Man. And the Manly Bear.
Like the pigs in my last post, these creatures are also wearing headgear and scarfs: What I find particularly interesting here is that wearing a hat and a scarf is merely a generic condition for one of these two, and not all surprising. A hat and a scarf is what snowmen often wear, and IContinue reading “Scarfs Make the Man. And the Manly Bear.”
Pantlessness
One of the ways in which salt-and-pepper shaker sets humanize the figures they depict who are not in reality human beings is by means of clothing. They have hats on, or scarves, or shoes. I thought it might be interesting to look at some sets in which that happens, in a series of posts beginningContinue reading “Pantlessness”
Bath, Beneath, and Beyond
Continuing on with shaker sets that imply an invisible beneath, there is this pair: Once more, the shakers represent something that is standing in water, this time two bathers. We see only the top third or so of their bodies, but knowledge of the way things usually are allows us to assume that the expectablyContinue reading “Bath, Beneath, and Beyond”
Perry Nodelman 