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| Richard Bolai All Rights Reserved 2005 |
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| The Bookmann online gallery |
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| Public Art |
As images go this one is up there in the shaking ones head with wonder signage. A knight is stabbing with Barber�s shears at the hair of a woman, lopping off several inches of it. I recall seeing Sesame Street�s version of Rapunzel. That was funny and endearing. This image is also endearing in its own way. Thought had to go into calling your establishment Hair Knights. Exactly why is unclear to me. But I like that the hair knights wear full armour including capes to do their job. I suppose that to cut hair is a swash buckling affair. I can just imagine all of the planning and preparation that went into the typography and the image. The people involved thought about their wanting to attract attention. But what kind? This is a small business on the eastern Main Road, so people glance over at this sign without even realizing what it actually is. Adele Todd 2005 |
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| Above "Panty World" Just as I�m thinking that Hair Knights deserve an award for strangeness, here comes another strangely compelling window display and signage. The name of the store is difficult to read because the sign painter assumed that double and tripling the colour around the text would make it �bigger� and more noticeable. The store boasts fashionable shoes, clothing, cosmetics and accessories and for some reason very roomy panties that they go out of their way to display in wire hoops, just so that the passer by can see just how much they support the fuller figured woman. Actually many stores in Port of Spain use wire frames to show that tube top dresses and flared Polyester blend pants can stretch to unimagined widths. Topped only by the equally wide bodied ladies one can see around the country in lime green trousers with matching bag and shoes, sometimes a bit of the colour also streaked into hair resembling a Pineapple at its freshest. These women have high self-esteem and show it. They even go as far sometimes as powdering their d�colletage with a smattering of powder. I�ve been told that this signifies having bathed recently and just gotten dressed. When open this store sells even more than the sign boasts and has been there for as long as I can remember on Barataria Main Road, slowly becoming a thing of the past, or maybe not necessarily so, as the panties suggest. |
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| Along the Eastern Main Road, Trinidad, West Indies |
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