Since my last few posts have been about creatures taking their pants off, a look at this shaker set seems appropriate: As a set, they have an interesting binary-oppositional relationship. I’m tempted to suggest that they replicate the insistence of the shaker miniverse on dividing things into opposite pairs: salt and pepper, black and white,Continue reading “Gendered Elimination?”
Category Archives: Salt-and-Pepper Sets
For a Spicy Experience, First Take the Pants Off
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”
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”
For Those Who Might Like a Fantastic Fork (or a Satisfying Spoon)
In the salt-and-pepper miniverse, it’s not only animals who wear human-type clothing. Other objects can do it also. Here, for instance, are a nattily dressed fork and spoon:In addition to wearing aprons–certainly an appropriate garment for a pair of kitchen utensils–they have also grown arms and legs and even the barest beginnings of faces, thus,Continue reading “For Those Who Might Like a Fantastic Fork (or a Satisfying Spoon)”
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”
Shirtless and Pantless, but with a Hat
Continuing with this series of posts about salt and pepper shaker sets that represent animals and the clothing that they do and do not wear, there is this set, which trumps the various pantless and/or shirtless sets I have been describing by depicting creatures wearing nothing but hats (and glasses): They are, I assume, owls,Continue reading “Shirtless and Pantless, but with a Hat”
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”
Discriminatory Pantlessness
In an earlier post, I talked about some pantless pigs, and noticed the number of cartoon picture book animals who are similarly pantless. Now here’s a shaker set in which both the figures are pantless, but only one of them is shirtless: Surprisingly, it is the male who wears a shirt–at least if I amContinue reading “Discriminatory Pantlessness”
Perry Nodelman 