You know how it works. Captions in the comments, plzthx. Do your best for eternal glory and the ability to show off in front of your friends. Coming next week, reader-submitted captionable pix! Email yours to raincoaster at gmail dot com.

Our image for today comes to us from Yanko Design, who saw a niche need for a jacket specifically for lonely people. Lonely people who want to pick up other lonely people. Lonely people who want to pick up other lonely people, yet who need both hands free. This jacket is made entirely from strips of velcro, and as you can see from the image, has practical as well as faintly pathetic applications. This should, if it catches on, put an end to Drop the Baby once and for all!

Takkiainen is a jacket for lonely or bored people. It is designed to help the wearer to get in contact with others. Since we brush against each other every day as we move around in the city, we can use our clothes as a medium for meeting people and communicating with them. The jacket is made out of Velcro strips of different widths that have been sewn together side by side to form alternating hook and pile stripes. When these materials touch each other, they grab onto each other. The lonely user can be happily connected with other loners simply by walking around in the jacket.

Even babies can be attached to their parents.

Designer: Aamu Song & Johan Olin

It seems there is a new children’s retailer on the scene, called Crazy 8, which is owned by the same company that manufactures Gymboree.  I would equate them with The Children’s Place as far as target pricing.  They’ve got a good selection of clothing for newborns up to tweens.  And, for a limited time due to the launch of their new internet site, all shipping is free.  They’ve got a really good sale going on right now as well. The clothes are fairly stylish for the price, so get going!

Here are some of my favorites.

For girls:

 This double-breasted terry jacket is on sale for $16.99.

For boys:

This barn jacket with corduroy collar is on sale for only $23.99

For baby girls:

A smocked terry hoodie on sale for $11.99

For baby boys:

A zip front cardigan on sale for $12.99

Happy shopping! Because I know if there is anything we love more than our kids, it just might be a good sale and free shipping!

LolCats meet LolKids: a memetic union for the ages!

Also, this is probably the best place to note that it was just the repressed Englishmen that insisted on the short pants for their boys. The Scots, presumably, realized they’d all have expired of hypothermia if they’d been jammed into hot pants in that climate.

Because the ever-gracious Annalucia asked so nicely, I will now pronounce the winner of our little guessing game.

It was called “cute, in a blingy sort of way” and “wow, is that bad.”

And that was the positive stuff.

With almost palpable contempt, it was called a “fugly little garment of doom,” “hideous,” and my favorite, “this looks like something a berserk mime would wear.”

Can you tell that it was a big hit?

And what would you say you would pay for the privilege of buying such a garment? A garment with such scorn heaped upon it?

My friends, you would pay a grand total of $119.95. Yes, in US dollars. Amazing, isn’t it? Go ahead and click on the picture if you don’t believe me.

Raincoaster guessed pretty darn close with $125.oo, but the rules state that you must not go over, so by a measly five bucks, she is out. You get the consolation prize of, well, nothing. Sorry!

So with that, the winner of the contest is LauraH with a guess of $89.00. LauraH, you now retain bragging rights. For whatever they are worth, anyway. Which isn’t much really, but let us all give her a collective standing internet ovation!

So, you were probably wondering, if you were a fundamentally sensible yet imaginative type as we all know you are, who, exactly, would wear Che Guevara children’s anklet socks with their bow-bedecked camo ballet slippers.

This girl would (click to enlarge):

~Thorn~ starring Rosie
Posted by permission of the author, Amy Mebberson

Ah, they grow up so fast. Now she’s clearly getting a jump on her Britney/Xtina phase.

My friends, the last challenge I handed down was not a challenge at all.  My pathetic attempts to fool you were for naught. If this was a game show, it would have gone bankrupt because almost all of you savvy shoppers guessed correctly.  All the prizes and money would have been given out on the first round and my butt unceremoniously dumped as emcee.  I would at this very moment be begging for another job as an extra on an F/X television show.

So this time, let’s make it a bit more challenging, shall we?

We are going to play One Bid, and the contestant who guesses the number closest to the regular retail price without going over wins! Only one guess per contestant, please!

Glinda, what do I win, you may ask? Well, for now, it is just bragging rights.  We’re big on bragging rights around here, if you haven’t already noticed.

But let’s see just how good you are this time.

(cue cheesy music, picture a model with perfectly manicured fingers holding this on a hanger, gesturing the way only Price is Right models who were taught at the Price is Right School of Showmanship can)

This all cotton tee is available in girl’s sizes 2-10, and is manufactured by someone who will remain nameless, as you can Google the company and that would be cheating.  Not that I don’t trust you, it’s that gal I don’t trust.  Yeah, you know who you are.  Don’t try and look all innocent.

Now, take your place on Contestant’s Row and let’s begin!

As a collectivist denizen of darkest Canuckistan myself, I totally heart these. We should make them standard uniform in our military; it would make peacekeeping duties in former Soviet republics just that much more lively, don’t you think? I certainly hope a portion of the proceeds from sales are going to support urban renewal projects in Havana, yet somehow one doubts. They were, after all, hanging up next to the Pink Panther socks, and the Pink Panther is a well-known right-wing Libertarian.

Does his agent know about this?

Stolen from Houseplant Picture Studio, via Nag on the Lake.

And of course, no guerrilla fashion ensemble would be complete without:

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