ONE MANNYQUINN





Times were hard, I was in Ushiwawa at the tip of the end of the world. Although it seems there was competition from another city also boasting to be the Southern-most city on the planet.

I had been in South America for about 17 days on my way back up to Santiago, Chile, totalling 28 days I had spent there.

I decided to work as a mannequin as you can see me pictured. Ok, untrue.

But I admire clothing stores that use mannequins that have some facial features. Even if it is an Ed Grimley type hairstyle, that come to think of it is in vogue with young men these days. You know the smush up on both sides to give it a start of making a poor sand castle look. The total nerd style of a few previous generations. Either that or shaved heads on young guys. There's one more hair style for the YGen and that's wear a baseball cap to hide the hair. For an even hipper style wear the cap catcher style backwards. Or to one side. Have a flattened bill. Gosh, I hadn't realized there were so many dumb ways to wear a hat until I started listing. I'm waiting for the one big crease in the middle of the brim to be stylish. That's the way you used to tell a real non-athlete when I played Little League.

Why it took clothing stores (notice how I got back on track without any transition whatsoever? Only established writers or some merit can pull that off), so long to give some facial features or personality to their mannequins. Only a few had discernible features. Some no heads at all. In AZ, I think it was Macy's that did it first. I took note and approve.

Of course none of the mannequins were quite as life-like as I in Chile. But I don't think I turned any heads in my brief international modeling career.