Big Bird / Milan Italy / $15,000

Head Bunny Guy / Black Rock City / $32.75
I don’t pretend to be an expert on fashion, but who buys this shit?  
I’ve seen more outlandish and creative costumes for Burning Man put together on a Nickle, who is spending thousands on this junk?   Do the glitterati really buy this stuff?

From YahooNews: 
Texas school district bans grillz
ARLINGTON, Texas - The school district here has expanded its dress codes to include mouths — and earlobes.
 
Students may no longer wear mouth jewelry known as “grillz” — shiny teeth caps — or the earlobe-stretching practice known as “gauging.”
“The district is having to respond to fads because they’ve become distracters […]

Hmmmm.. I wonder if this is somehow related to the popularity of things like the “Twinkie Cookbook” from the previous story.
From Time.COM: 
If Your Bra Doesn’t Fit, Go Shopping
That’s the agenda behind all the bra-size propaganda you’re hearing
If you are a woman, and you are wearing a bra, you are probably wearing the wrong size one. […]

 
From The New York Post:
NEW FASHION ‘BUG’
LIVE ROACH IS ‘ICK’-CESSORY Beauty, meet the beast.
This season’s creepiest fashion accessory is a live, bejeweled cockroach worn as jewelry - and what better place for roach couture than New York?
“This really reinforces my theory that society is imploding,” cracked Pete Donelan of Princeton, whose meal at a tony […]

From Tampabays10.COM:
Lottery winners jailed
Pasco, Florida — A Pasco County couple who won $13 million in the Florida Lottery were arrested for not paying their taxes on the money.
(more here)

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
Cap Collection at 82,792 and Growing
MITCHELL, S.D. — Roger “Buckey” Legried could wear a different baseball cap every hour for nine years and not get through his collection.
Volunteers counted 82,792 caps — more than enough for the Frost, Minn., man to set an unofficial world record — and then presented him with autographed No. […]

 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
Man Gets One Year for Stealing Undies
MENOMONIE, Wis. — A 25-year-old man convicted of stealing hundreds of pairs of underwear was sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for his second conviction of stealing panties.
Anthony Allen Scholfield was also sentenced to 10 years probation on Friday in Dunn County Circuit Court, following his […]

 
From YahooNews:
Mouth Grills Become Flashy Fashion Trend
CLEVELAND - The hip-hop culture is sinking its teeth into a new fashion trend. Individual gold-capped teeth have given way to grills and fronts — removable mouthpieces made of gold, platinum or silver and sometimes studded with jewels.
The trend has been boosted by hip-hop icons such as Nelly and […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Girl sues school over Confederate flag clothes
High school sophomore banned from attire with racially charged symbol
FLORENCE, S.C. - The family of a high school sophomore has filed a suit seeking to force school officials to allow the girl to wear clothing with Confederate flag images.
The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday by the North Carolina-based […]

 
From MNSBC & WVTM TV:
Teen Stays Home After School Says He Must Cut His Hair
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - A local teenager who is growing out his hair for charity stayed home from class on Thursday after his school said he cannot come back until he cuts it. Jackson Baker, 18, still refuses to trim his hair. […]

 From YahooNews:
Army relaxes tattoo rules to attract recruits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, which missed its recruiting goal last year, has relaxed its policy banning certain types of tattoos in a bid to attract new soldiers who otherwise would have been barred from serving.
The Army will now allow new recruits and all its current soldiers […]

From ABC7 News:
Annapolis Welcomes Spring With Odd Tradition
Annapolis, Md. (AP) - Is that spring in the air - or an old gym sock on fire?
In sailing-crazy Annapolis, boaters celebrate the first day of spring with a ceremonial Burning of the Socks, signifying it will soon be warm enough to wear boat shoes without socks.
(more here)
I […]

From SFGate:
Funny, they don’t look like models — and that’s why these ‘ordinary people’ are
She may not be the face of Lancome, but Jennifer Frisch is one of the faces on the Nancy’s Petite Quiche boxes in the frozen food section of your supermarket. All she had to do was grin madly for a day […]

 
From HindustanTimes.Com:
Tongue piercing is not so cool!
It may help you build the impression of being really ‘cool’, but a new study has shown that wearing a tongue stud not only puts you at a risk for chipped teeth, recessed gums, and nerve damage, but that it may also be responsible for you growing a ‘second’ […]