The Roach Brooch C/D?

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Interesting concept, but it has a few downsides.

Roaches fly, yeah? So while it may be tethered onto your outfit, it could still decide to take off and flutter around your face for a while.

And what if it dies and you don't notice? Not a good look.

Live jewellery - will it take off?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

WTF. That's the stupidest thing I evah saw. Well, not really, but...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

When I was a kid, my mother used to have one of those (dead) scarab beetle brooches from Egypt. It used to freak me out.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, at least it wasn't circling your nipple looking for escape....

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

God, it's sort of Sheri Tepper-esque, and I normally think of her as being amusingly alarmist and unhelpfully simplified...but roach brooches make fashion look like a cruel joke being played on women (not that they're flying out of the stores, so to speak), just to see how far we can be pushed to believe.

(Cue jaymc saying that so do stiletto heels.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

there's a designer in nyc who makes jewerly out of mouse and insect carcasses, but not the actually live creature. after all of the mice trouble in my old apartment, i really wanted to get one of the little gold-dipped brooches but alas - style comes with such a high price tag.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Remind me never to move to NY or London unless I have enough money to live in an apartment guaranteed to not have GIANT ROACHES in it + make sure I maintain enough sense to not fall for any fashion made of bugs.

I want to see her go the distance and do it with spiders though. That is the true test.

ugh.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

We used to get the occasional palmetto bug but nothing with that HUGE SEGMENTED WORMY BACKSIDE. I'm more grossed out by that "tail" than anything. Brrrrrrr.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

yeah, urg.

BUT, again, it loses some of its bleargh-factor when I think about what could have been done. Yeah, that's right artist/designer-person, if you really want to take this to the next level, or no, skip that level and take this elevator all the way to the top, put a giant centipede eating a mouse around someone's neck and call it a necklace.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

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