These may be from a vintage Patons pattern book and sure, they aren’t quite modern to today’s standards but why oh why is one model feeding another model ice cream? I don’t get the point of that at all – does it make the hot pants hot?
What Not to Crochet
because there's always one more crochet design that shouldn't be made!
June 19, 2011 at 3:03 am
Maybe because the one girl is shorter and wearing a bib.
June 19, 2011 at 5:43 am
Well it certainly doesn’t make them cool
June 19, 2011 at 9:08 am
I wouldn’t advise wearing this if you have 40″ hips. Those were the days when whatever the fashion, there’d be a knitted/crocheted version.
June 19, 2011 at 9:46 am
i didn’t realize that 2002 was the new 70′s…
June 19, 2011 at 11:51 am
She obviously did not dress herself, and cannot feed herself either.
June 19, 2011 at 12:08 pm
wow,childhood nightmares returning…….. (:0
June 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
More to the point – what is that super creepy thing behind the girls on the left?! Have to say, though, there’s something cheeky cute about these gals!
June 20, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Wow!
Not quite sure who the target market is for that…
I sure hope they didn’t sell a lot of them
June 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm
those pants were surposed to be ” soo hot you had to eat ice cream to cool youselve off” . i guess. or it was a failed attempt to make the picure look more sexy. no seriously it reminds me of the time that my mother decided that mini skirts are good on a child since they take less fabric to make.
June 20, 2011 at 11:15 pm
I don’t think anything will top the woman giving birth.
Anything I see after that…won’t get me as much as that one.
June 21, 2011 at 8:00 am
this one is just scary disturbing on soooooooooooooooo many levels!
June 21, 2011 at 9:41 am
Wow! There are just so many amazing things going on in this! The bright colors! The scary sculpture thing behind them! The sharing of ice cream when there is clearly another ice cream on the table! The fantastic 70′s style! The high socks! There is just too much! Thanks for the laugh!
June 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm
@Tiffany, I’m pretty sure 2002 is the pamphlet number, not the year.
I doubt you could make models get shag haircuts in 2002 – this is from the 1970s.
That said, wow! What demographic were they going for?
On second thought, I don’t wan to know.
June 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Okay, I’ve been well-behaved for too long…
I’m thinking maybe the 14-15 yr old, jail bait demographic?
That would also rule out 2002, LOL
June 25, 2011 at 9:38 am
Well, DUH, they’re LESBIAN hot pants! Lesbians in the 1970s always wore crocheted shorts or bib overalls and fed each other ice cream! Not many people know that, I guess.
July 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Am I the only one somewhat disturbed by the “toe?”
July 25, 2011 at 8:57 pm
The feeding is to increase the infantilizing quality of the little-girl outfit, which is, as we know, what all crocheters aspire to. Or maybe they hoped men would mistake it for some new kind of porn.
September 9, 2011 at 12:16 am
Well… I would comment about the 70′s if I could remember them… or maybe I am blocking them out because of all the gals leaping about with ice cream in their camel-toe shorts.