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Pink! It was love at first sight

This is awesome: the (probably?) unintentionally vaginal prom dress.

Things like this always beg the question “Ignorance or malice?” I mean, I guess it’s possible that some designer made this and was like, “Hell yeah, pink ruffles!” without realizing that it looked like a giant vag. On the other hand, I find it equally likely that the most awesome person in the world was fired from her job designing cheap prom dresses and decided to throw this in as a parting gift.

What I don’t get is why Light in the Box (badum-ching! No, seriously, that’s the company’s name), which was embarrassed enough about the vag-dress to put up a different image crappily photoshopped to look less like a Georgia O’Keefe painting, didn’t just take the item off the market. It’s still for sale. Here’s the photoshopped version (and in crappy screenshot quality, too, they’ve stopped letting people download the image below the waist, heh):

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emily g | Apr 20 2009 10:40am | Uncategorized, Georgia O'Keefe, photoshop, prom | Comments 0

This week in Philly etsy…

Philly landscape jewelry, arachnid cross-stitch, vintage lace necklaces and a notebook that overshares.

From Jen McCleary’s shop, you can wear Philly with you all the time with this pendant, made from a vintage optician test lens.

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