I ... what? Really?

[cupcake_goth]

Topshop is selling a headband with faux antlers. (clicky-link!)

For $160.

Okay, ignoring the fact that You can find far better versions on Etsy for a helluva lot less (clicky-link!), I'm just ...

Antlers. Wearing antlers on your head will forever in my mind be linked with someone from my past who is BARKING MAD. There are friends who have known me forever who are reading this post, making a o_0 face, and nodding emphatically.

I am all for weird accessories and putting strange things on your head. But antlers? Faux antlers made of black leather? Ooooo-kaaaaay. And from Topshop, of all places. I am boggling.

Comments

[jaborwhalky.livejournal.com]

Type of person who will by that will be Hypsters or some one looking for a easy holloween costume that has some money to blow.

[windbourne.livejournal.com]

I have one of those, too! I have other friends who wear antlers who are merely pagan or of a faerie-style bent, but I have one old acquaintance who was insaaane and often wore them. XD

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to remind myself that perfectly lovely pagan and faerie -types ALSO wear antlers, I really do. But then my brain goes Nope. Remember [crazyperson]? REMEMBER [CRAZYPERSON]?!", and then I make a squinchy face.

[bork.livejournal.com]

I need to confess something.

I once wore reindeer antlers to a Folk Metal concert. But when the lead singer of the headlining band is Sami, and incorporates traditional Sami yoiking into the metal music? And has antlers as part of his mikestand? Seemed quite appropriate at the time.

I love Shaman/Korpiklaani.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

hmm.... barking mad? I am curious, and I probably shouldn't be.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

But.... but..... *nothing* should cost $160 at TopShop. TopShop is buy it, wear it, throw it away.

[marc17.livejournal.com]

Well, to be honest, real antlers would cost me less time and materials as an artist than hand crafting leather ones, so I'm not really surprised that the leather ones are more. Then again, they could just be really proud of their antler headbands.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

My immediate thought was that bork needs them for the next Korpiklaani concert, but not at that price.

[bork.livejournal.com]

Yup - not at that price.

And my antler story was just relayed above :)

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

*whistles nonchalantly*

As for the merch, we live in a society where Snuggies sell. So, hey, whatever.

[dporowski.livejournal.com]

Snuggies ain't nothin'. (http://www.snazzynapper.com/)

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've been known to wear antlers, but only right before Christmas, and mine are made of gold lame and cost $4.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

0.0

I...

I just have no words...

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

Wow. Huh...

Funny thing is I bet $1 I know who you know who is barking mad and I think I met her before you. Heh. Small world we live in...

[seelenschwester.livejournal.com]

The Topshop antlers look just like the Christmas novelty antlers you buy at Bargreens. I don't understand the pricetag. (I mean, aside from stupidity.)

[jessicac.livejournal.com]

I think I remember the same crazyperson. And the memory brings up the whole outfit that went with the antlers, which I could have happily completed life without recalling to my brain again.

Oh well.

Time for a recuperative cup of tea.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

The rumor is that she is still with the person from my past who had taken up with her, and that he proposed to her and she finally said yes.

(I was told this at Norwescon. Oh, the comedy.)

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Do you have any of that dust left? I am all out, and I'm far too old to be dealing with that bizarre bullshit.

[blutsauger.livejournal.com]

Antlers. Huh. Maybe it goes along with the weird fad of celebs wearing mouse/rabbit ears made of some black lace-y fabric...
Fashion is something very outlandish to me.

o_o

[blatherbits.livejournal.com]

100% agree. Can't even begin to tell you that is my exact thought when I see antler head bands. [crazy person] wore those.. .

And yes [crazy person] is still with said person from your past. Here is where the weirdness begins... My x-roommate is engaged to [crazy person]'s cousin. *blink* she says the last name and I just sort of go. Umm.. yeh.. I'll be over here.

O_o

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

Looks suspiciously like TopShop is trying to cater to people who want to wear antlers to the company Christmas party, or out drinking at terribly posh bars on Christmas Eve, but couldn't be caught dead in the five dollar felt kind. People like that probably don't have etsy on their radar.

Not so much for the upper income bracket of people who wear antlers for religious reasons or to concerts as mentioned upthread.

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/52205923/petite-riding-hatfascinator-for-formal?ref=sr_gallery_8&ga_search_query=antler+fascinator&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=&includes[0]=tags&includes[1]=title>This tiny top hat</a> is adorable, although not my personal style. Certainly in better taste than elaborate leather faux antlers. (Maybe those are for people who abhor using leather or other dead animal byproducts in their clothing? Except it looks like real leather... I just don't even know. O_o )