"fast food fashion" news and stories

Fast food fashion? Not quite my bag, especially if it's a dress shaped like an order of French fries. However, in small doses, I might be able to handle it.

Fred Flare has a pair of earrings shaped like a cheeseburger for one side, and French fries for the other. They're made by Cornyness, and are about a half inch in size, made from Fimo clay. I wouldn't say they're as sweet and cute as a pendant that looks and smells like a slice of banana cake, but they're fun nonetheless. (And good thing these earrings don't actually smell like a burger and fries!)

$8 at Fred Flare.

Slashfood's sister blog on travel, Gadling, has a great opinion post on fast food (un)fashion. No, we're not talking about haute couture that's been inspired by fast food with French fry prints soda pop shaped dresses, but the actual uniforms that the fast food employees have to wear.

Gadling Blogger Erik Olsen would rather "gag on a Burrito Supreme than ever wear one of those blue, red and yellow outfits" at Hot Dog on a Stick.

I don't know, Erik. You mean those rainbow-colored fez hats minus that tassles don't make you hungry for a corn dog? Besides, it looks like it doesn't have to be red, yellow and blue. Some of the employees are wearing a completely different palettte of blue, green, turqouise and yellow!

I'm sure there is some fast food restaurant out there that's got an uglier outfit.

As if the Whopperettes weren't bad enough, food-as-clothing hit the catwalks in New York's Fashion Week. Designer Jeremy Scott seemed to decide that the world's selection of fast food-themed clothing was sorely lacking, as he turned cloth versions of packages of French fries and hamburgers into dresses and sweaters. Of course, the French fry packet dress might be an actual "super size" wrapper from McDonald's, filched before the fast food giant eliminated the size, since the real box was probably large enough to fit one of the Mr. Scott's models. Several other pieces in the collection were also food inspired, such as an ice cream cone dress and a pizza robe/dress.

Image from Consumerist

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