It’s for a good cause!

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>> I'm querying my own status as a fashion sinner that should manifest itself in a chunky post once I've gotten past the demons that live in my head.  In the meantime, how best should I half-heartedly atone?  In the manner of a fashion scrooge, I find that when people approach me about featuring fashion products that are in aid of charity, for some reason I seem to have shirked away from a lot of them.  I've astutely worked out that it's NOT because I'm uncharitable but the 'It's for charity!' line somehow 75% of the time translates to lazy product that you wouldn't buy if it wasn't for charity but somehow you end up being guilted into it because… "It's for charidee…".  I've seen people buy said products without even understanding the cause or what profit percentage actually goes towards the cause because they airily say "Oh, it's for Charity!", as though Charity had become a blanket character with victim-face (wallow in the number of articles on middle-class guilt online if you so wish… ).

Ah yes… atoning… must NOT let the scroogist inside of me go completely bezerk.  So did some of you feel a little bit small and wee as a British person when Obama referred to BP as "British Petroleum".  Whilst those references harboured no ill-will towards this ickle isle, I still felt a little bit like I had gone over there with buckets of oil and clogged the shores myself.  See Charlie Brooker's response for a more humorous take on the diminishing value of a British accent. 

I therefore look upon this latest project of Etsy fave Yokoo with grave earnest.  Her project 'Noah's Ark' has been unleashed with the ongoing aim to help the cleaning up of the Gulf Coast and as the name suggests, animals are involved.  Wooden ones to be precise that are painted in a palette that is threatening to permanently stain my life – which is a good thing of course.  Some are left in their natural wooden shades too and they're interspersed with probably pleasing-to-touch wooden spheres.  The three necklaces are for sale now and charity or not, everybody needs a bit of wooden animal fun because it's a reminder of how toys used to be and well… it's always good to carry a hippo around the neck, no? 

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**EDIT** Yes, Yokoo's hat is an awesome one… buuuut… the thing I'd REALLY REALLY want to wear with the necklace is an adult replica of this shirt that the other half so very cutely sported as a child… multi-coloured GIRAFFES dancing up and down the shirt and then cosying up nicely with the rhino and the hippo on the necklace…. that would a be happy day indeed…

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  4. I had to have one! The 2nd one pictured, with the pink ball, is now mine 😀
    I’ve wanted a piece of Yokoo’s work for a longlong time now. This was too good to pass up!
    Thanks for posting these Susie

  13. “I’ve seen people buy said products without even understanding the cause or what profit percentage actually goes towards the cause because they airily say “Oh, it’s for Charity!””
    I’m so with you on this one. 99% of all times I see some charity product it’s probably sth. that after getting bought will end up in a land fill and 100% of all times I think: why not just give 10$ to that particular charity instead of buying this unnecessary s***.

  15. So with you, I hate ‘shit charity merch’. Especially of the ‘insert-celeb-name-here illustrated a tshirt’ ilk. Yuck.

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