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”
Category Archives: Cute
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”
A Lobster Dressed for Lobster Fishing.
Here’s an addition to my series of posts on animals in human clothing that introduces a new hat but begins with a memory of some old ones. Some time ago, I wrote a post on this blog about these lobsters and their participation in their own death by boiling (see earlier post here): Back then,Continue reading “A Lobster Dressed for Lobster Fishing.”
Cute as a Bug in a Rugged Shirt and a Pair of Trousers
Here’s another set of nonhuman creatures wearing human clothing. At first glance, indeed, this pair of shakers appears to be quite completely clothed: They seem to be wearing black shirts with white stripes–their shirthood implied by the fact that their hands emerge from the arms of them. And on top of their shirts are whatContinue reading “Cute as a Bug in a Rugged Shirt and a Pair of Trousers”
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”
Wholly Cow, Partly Human
As did one of the flamingos of my last post, this cow is wearing sunglasses. But in this case, sunglasses is almost all she wears, except for what might be some grey fur on top of her head but what is probably intended to represent some sort of a motorcycle helmet . But like theContinue reading “Wholly Cow, Partly Human”
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.”
About This Blog, and How to Find My Discussions of Some of Its Key Ideas
NOTE: I stopped actively adding to this blog in 2013. A quote from my first post on this blog: The purpose of this blog is to make a record of the salts and pepper sets I have collected–to account for why I collect them, to think about why they interest me both as individual setsContinue reading “About This Blog, and How to Find My Discussions of Some of Its Key Ideas”
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”
Both Elegant and Kitschy
My favourite salt and pepper shaker set that transforms the surface it sits on from a hard surface to one that implies the surface’s permeability is this one: It consists of just those two quite elegant and curvy triangular shapes–each on their own an interestingly abstract sculpture, perhaps. But somehow, together, their representational intent becomesContinue reading “Both Elegant and Kitschy”
Perry Nodelman 