Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Brooch

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#47
vanojr9 said:
OMG, gross! And cruel to the (I can't believe I'm saying this) poor cockroach. This reminds me of a fad at state fairs in the 60s and 70s...vendors used to glue little chameleons to cardboard with a pin backing and people could buy them and pin them to their clothing. The novelty was that the chameleon would change the color of the wearer's clothing. So you'd wear the chameleon all day and then throw it away when it died. I was completely horrified when I heard about this practice, but my parents say that it was pretty commonplace at midwestern fairs. Of course no such cruelty happens today, I think the state fair in IL has also banned any animal prizes for games (I still remember winning goldfish and bunnies at fairs and I'm in my 20s).
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Oh, good grief! :wtf:

Why?!! :shrugs:
 
#48
caitlin1214 said:
I think there's a difference between making a cockroach out of swarovski crystals (although who'd want to wear THAT!?!?! . . . I'd want a dragonfly made out of diamonds and sapphires, but that's just me!) and covering a live cockroach with crystals and wearing him as a little brooch.

And even though cockroaches freak me out, even THEY don't deserve that.
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We don't have any cockroaches, but we do have a beautiful blue bottle fly (bug) in stock, at the moment! :D

Don't worry, it's not alive! It has diamond set wings and a large sapphire, representing its abdomen.

The Victorian trend for insect jewellery started with butterflies and dragonflies and then gradually progressed, via blue bottles, to less obviously attractive bugs, like beetles.

After the recent trends for butterflies and dragonflies, it is not surprising that people are becoming attracted to the 'darker' side of the insect world, just as they were in Victorian/Edwardian times; but why do they have to be real?!! :shrugs:

BTW, I'm not trying to sell it; I just thought it might be interesting to see, considering the nature of the thread.
 

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#49
ayla said:
Oooh this is actually pretty cute.

But animal cruelty. Still, I could imagine someone that accessorizes using pets (e.g. Ms. P Hilton) with one of these.
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lol its so funny you said paris hilton because when i first saw this pic i thought of the simple life and when she was blowing the cockroaches out of the house with a leaf blower...i thought wow this is actually one trend hilton might just skip
 
#55
Well.....I suppose it's better than eating them, like they did on Fear Factor. But, it's mean. My parents told me down in Florida they used to put little collars on chameleons attached to a pin, so it could run around on your shoulder. A tad nicer than gluing them to a pin backing, but still mean.
 
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