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May Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
At Last!
I apologize for being missing in action for so long! Let me know if you want to see my list of excuses.
But I’m back with such exciting news that you’ll forget all about my two weeks of total silence. Yes, our new products for summer ’10 are finally here! (Well, most of them are. Keep your eyes open for another introduction at the end of the month.)
I am most excited to introduce our new Taintorettes, Henrietta Warrick Chase and her sister Janet Warrick Webster! As you all know by now, it is next to impossible to find images of non-Caucasian women in 1940s and 1950s print media. But thanks to Amber Doe, Gal Friday, I found another way to inject a little diversity into my line. When Amber came to work for us she asked if she could use her grandmother’s picture on her business card. (I use the woman from “hurrah! at last I’m 50!”)
I loved Amber’s card so much…
that I asked her if her grandmother would consent to becoming a Taintorette. And she said yes! Henrietta and Janet are the very first Taintorettes who were never professional models… though they are certainly as beautiful as any professional models I have seen.
Please welcome Henrietta…
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and Janet…
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Thank you, ladies!
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Enter Turquoise
In 2006 a friend of a friend put me in touch with Turquoise Taylor Grant. I had been writing captions for ladies from the 40s and 50s for twenty-one years, and I thought a little help might be in order. Enter Turquoise. She sent me such hilariously quirky and spot-on captions that I started wondering “who is this crazy woman?!?” I hypothesized, based on the name “Turquoise”, that she might be an aging hippie. My daughter said no, Turquoise was an Amazon high-priestess. I finally decided to stop guessing and ask Turquoise to send me a picture and tell me a little about herself. Definitely not an aging hippie:
This is what Turquoise had to say about her work:
I write satire, and humor, and am shopping around a book of essays (still in the “rejection” stage–very rewarding). I have a couple of short pieces up on happywomanmagazine.com—The Beauty of Balance is one. I’ve also written a lot of corporate copy, for example, about the fascinating world of automatic check cashing machines.
Turquoise lives on a boat outside Los Angeles and actually sails in regattas. Interesting woman.
All dressed up and nowhere to go… except the kitchen
I’ve been wondering for years what could be so enthralling to these two ladies. A ham’s a ham, right? Hah! That’s where you’re wrong!
Carmen Askew, winner of our April caption contest, figured out once and for all what the culinary excitement is really about:
I laugh every time I look at this! Thank you, Carmen!
Before I go on to list the honorable mentions, I’d like to explain how I choose a winner. At the end of the month I go through all the captions, checking off a dozen or so that I especially like. I wait a few hours (thanks to my rapid mood swings, something that wasn’t especially funny two hours ago might be hilarious now). Then I go through the captions a third time, choose my absolute favorite… and I few more that were really, really hard to eliminate. Only then do I look at the names of the brilliant writers.
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Okay… how about these?
I was thrilled to get so many positive reactions to my “testicles” design! Thank you all! Too late to get it into our summer catalog, but look for it for sure in January 2011.
Since I seem to have found such a responsive (and like-minded) panel of experts, let’s really test the limits of good taste:
As you may know, I have recently started working with a few writers. Writer Laura Hohnhold has me falling-off-my-chair-laughing on a regular basis. But some of her submissions are just a little too risqué for my current product line. Now finally, with you, I can share the laughter. As you can see from these two captions for the same image, Laura is an equal-opportunity offender:
Rejected
I designed this card three years ago. I thought it was funny. But everyone to whom I showed it said “yuck!” With great regret I decided to put it in my “rejected” folder until such time as the world was ready for a little castration humor. Could that time have come? Submissions for our January caption contest (“puppy wrangler”) included so many references to neutering… I know there are at least five other women out there who will enjoy this.
Funny? Offensive? Funny and offensive? You tell me…
