$1,500
A few posts back I discussed How Not To Model. In this particular instance, the model turned out to be the perfect match for this dress of shame. Absolute shame.
Yes, a completely knitted “prom gown” with sock monkeys all the fuck over it. Oh, but they each have their own name tags!!!
And the model…her hair…I mean, for one it was probably hard to get ANYONE to model this thing. But they found just about the only girl in the world who can pull it off. I hear that the hair piece was found festering under a rock and they thought it would look great with this…this whatever you call it. Dress thing…with monkeys, dress thing…
No pattern, but thankfully you can order it for only $1,500.
This is going to be the best prom EVARRR!!!! 
January 14, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Let me guess she will be going stag to the prom. Unless they make a sock monkey tux as well.
January 14, 2008 at 10:01 pm
That dress was on display at the Minnesota (or Wisconsin, maybe?) state fair a year or two ago….
January 14, 2008 at 11:23 pm
This dress is a joke. Which is fine, if it’s supposed to be a joke. Which it probably is. I think.
January 14, 2008 at 11:23 pm
It’s an awful lot of work for a joke, though.
January 15, 2008 at 2:19 am
‘Cause I totally want a sock monkey nose coming out of my crotch.
January 15, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Yikes! Scary! The scariest thing about it is that there are some highschoolers out there who would actually wear such a monstrosity. When I think about the stuff *I* wore in high school…shudder. The bow in the front makes her look like the worst Christmas present of all time.
January 17, 2008 at 12:11 am
Oh lawd. Now we know what sock monkeys look like when they take their hats off, dress up and go to the prom. Who knew that sock monkeys even had a prom? They never struck me as the formal type.
January 17, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Heh. I saw this at the MN state fair this past year, there was a whole display- knitted sock monkey chair cover, another sock monkey dress that was plain except for two monky heads over the boobs…. I thought it was pretty hilarious, but then I never expected anyone to actually WEAR the damn thing.
January 17, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I saw this a couple months ago & sent a copy to my dh. He apparently had a well-loved sock monkey when he was a baby/small child. His mom says it went everywhere with him. I said I’d knit the dress…he replied that if he never saw another sock monkey it would be too soon!! I also offered to knit one & send it to my SIL, who thinks I am totally WACKY anyway! Thanks for this morning’s laugh! :oP
January 17, 2008 at 10:20 pm
This person must have alot of time on her hands. Lots of work for something so ugly. I bet she can make something beautiful if she tried.
January 17, 2008 at 11:42 pm
WHY? Just, why? WHAT. Was. She. Thinkin?
February 10, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Are you kidding? That dress is AWESOME!
March 3, 2008 at 4:05 am
What’s not to love?
March 3, 2008 at 4:20 am
i guess the sense of irony died with alot of you a long time ago, or perhaps an understanding of the absurd. if so, get ready for a life of disappointment.
this dress seems to say, so you like cute little folky sock monkeys, well here you go! I’m going to go overboard, envelope you in all that you desire.
surely you can see the maker’s sly grin.
March 10, 2008 at 12:23 am
I love this! It is right up my alley. If I could knit fast I would make it. It is really cool.
Before I get nay nasty comments, I have wicked sense of humor and this is neato. It takes guts!
Cora
March 14, 2008 at 6:31 pm
OMG sign me up! I will buy two!
Proof that even knitting is not safe from drugs. I did a spit-take when I saw this. This is worse than the teenagers making their outfits out of duct-tape. It’s one thing to live out your childhood, its another to tear it apart, knit it back together and have it look like utter shit. The only redeeming quality to this is that hopefully we are looking at the only one of its kind and that hopefully its made out of wool and that moths will devourer it.
March 16, 2008 at 3:53 am
Tiller, yeah, just after she finished saying give me 1500 bucks.
March 23, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Ok, with that hair and her expression she looks high. And from the looks of the dress she’s been high for a long time and knitted that thing to pass the time.
March 26, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I don’t think it’s all that bad. If someone wore it to prom, then hey, at least they aren’t wearing the same damn dress as everyone else. Let’s not scoff at individuality in a polyester organza world.
If I think of it as art rather than craft I actually like it.
March 30, 2008 at 2:23 pm
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April 4, 2008 at 5:18 am
That poor model. I bet that she was paid about that much to wear the thing.
Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
April 4, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Well, she *is* modeling on a cracked concrete floor with an industrial-type roll down door behind her.
I’m thinking the budget wasn’t huge for this shoot if they’re doing it in a warehouse, so hair and makeup were likely out of the question.
April 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm
My four year-old daughter wants this dress! Of course, she also enjoys going outside in her nightgown and pink glitter cowboy boots, but only with her pink tiara, of course. Accessories are so crucial to pulling an outfit together.
May 3, 2008 at 10:01 am
Hey, think practical! Make 24 of the sock-monkeys on that dress and you can use it after the prom every year as a christmas-countdown just hanging little things on the name tags.