Lifelike
November 6th 2007 19:53
In one of the European countries we visited – I can’t remember whether it was Germany or Switzerland, but I think it was the latter – we came across life-sized mannequins of babies in shop windows. They were so cute that my wife wanted to go into one of the shops and ask where she could get one.
You get used to seeing mannequins not looking like human beings. Most adult mannequins these days sport some sort of difference as though they had to be defined as not human, just like the
androids or replicants in films like Blade Runner. (Incidentally, did you realize that Harrison Ford, who has just made his fourth Indiana Jones movies, is 65? That makes him due for a pension in New Zealand.)
But these baby mannequins were so lifelike that your attention was arrested by them. And of course they were beautifully dressed in fashionable European-style baby clothes.
My wife said she could just see one of our granddaughters hauling such a baby around – the only trouble might be if people who didn’t know it was a mannequin got upset and tried to rescue it…!
You get used to seeing mannequins not looking like human beings. Most adult mannequins these days sport some sort of difference as though they had to be defined as not human, just like the
Not getting any younger!
But these baby mannequins were so lifelike that your attention was arrested by them. And of course they were beautifully dressed in fashionable European-style baby clothes.
My wife said she could just see one of our granddaughters hauling such a baby around – the only trouble might be if people who didn’t know it was a mannequin got upset and tried to rescue it…!
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