Dreaming of a manikin…

To a stranger I’d probably look like I was in love with window shopping.   As I stand in front of the shop window staring, longingly at the fabulously dressed manikins.  But you know, it’s not the clothes I’m dreaming of, it’s the manikin!  No, no, I don’t have some super scary fetish about plastic people.  It’s their amazingly flat tummies, super skinny thighs and incredibly smooth skin that I’m after.

They resemble the airbrushed models you see in magazines.  Perfect…

Have you ever wished you were a manikin??

This morning I found the answer to cure my silly obsession with shop windows and manikins.  As I walked past a local Next store on the way to Nursery, the window was being remodelled.  What I saw was quite shocking!  A wake up call.

The manikins were in pieces, limbs separated and bodies lying lifelessly in a heap.  The most revealing thing was that they were completely exposed and you could see all the big, gaping holes where the bolts go through their legs.  Gruesome!

It made me realise just how silly I’d been.  Manikins are plastic shapes that do not resemble real women.  Well, other than the fact that they’re built with 4 limbs, a body and a head!

Remind yourself of this next time you stare dreamily into a shop window…