Saturday 18 August 2012

Mr. Wonderful

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Sears is closing their downtown stores in Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa.
Everything must go, including the fixtures.
This mannequin looks a bit like a young Tony Curtis.

8 comments :

s.c said...

Sears and Roebuck wasn't that a very famous catalog seller in the past. Here in europe firms with to thick catalogues who missed somehow the connection with internet are falling also with as greatest Neckerman from Germany.

Kate said...

Is the store closing because of the economy or is it just a no longer or usable space. Rather unattractive mannequins, don't you think?

Wayne said...

To clarify, Sears is still in business but they are closing some stores. The downtown store in Vancouver was 7 floors. It was probably too large to be practical.

Sears still prints catalogues, some of them are as big as phone books (which are pretty much obsolete as far as I can tell)

Paul in Powell River said...

You must mean Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler, 'cause frankly I'm with Kate, he looks weird!

TheChieftess said...

Oh!!! Oh!!! I used to live in a two story duplex and my downstairs neighbor had mannequins in her front window....always dressed for the season!!! She'd have loved this opportunity!!! (She's also the one that had the pink flamingoes in the yard...I would describe her as eccentric and a lot of fun!!!)

hamilton said...

so many mannequins now are faceless (and headless) that this eccentric one could be quite collectible!

Bob Crowe said...

I love it. The naked and the damned.

CaT said...

did you buy one?
i sometimes goto sears for cheap gym clothes..