Mon-dandy amusement

A couple of weeks ago Jessica over at Chronically Vintage did a post that featured the seemingly highly diverting online tool, the Deluxe Pin Up Maker, producing a pretty caricature of herself.  Then on Friday just gone Porcelina, inspired by the same post, created her own pin-up persona using the same site.

Always quick to spot an emerging trend (!), it occurred to me that there should be something similar for us chaps (and that if there wasn't, there blasted well ought to be!).  As it happens someone did indeed have the same idea for the gentlemen, in the form of the Dandy Maker.  Not wishing to feel left out and with the thought of addressing the balance for the boys, I immediately took it upon myself to create a dandy in... something approaching my own image (within the constraints of the configurator, at any rate).

This is the result:

Hat - check. 
Glasses - close enough.
Features - a damn sight more handsome than in real life.
Collar - should be turned down, of course.  What am I, some sort of scruff?!
Bow tie - quite right.
Waistcoat - aye, although I fancied a contrasting rather than matching blue - he is still a dandy, after all!
Jacket & trousers - spot on.
Shoes - I wish!  Co-respondents/spectators are on the list, of course...
Cane - hand looked a bit unnatural without anything in it, and I don't smoke.  Do have a walking stick, though.

There we have it, then.  It is possible to go overboard with the dandification of the model, something which I will probably spend a few idle minutes doing at some point again in the future, but it's all good fun for the odd quiet moment and quite variable considering the limits imposed.  Thanks to Jessica and Miss P for highlighting this jolly little feature - and who else will create a dandy or a pin-up, I wonder?

Attack of the giant handtools

Fear not, intrepid readers. Great Britain is not under attack from a hitherto unknown menace. Do not expect to look out of your lounge window and see huge hammers, colossal chisels, super-sized spanners and whacking great wrenches appearing in the sky above. To the good people of Compton Road, West Bromwich, where this apparition is shown to be, I say - do not panic. Some eejit has just left a pair of pliers on the roof of a Google Street View car, that's all.