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Hallo Readers,

“When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – no more, no less’.

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’

WTF has used this quote before, but this week it has become even more apposite. Because although we always suspected that what politicians said they would do was not exactly what politicians would actually do, if indeed, they would do it at all. But they did not turn words inside out and upside down so that they ended up meaning the exact opposite of what the word was generally thought to mean.  

Take the word “insurrection” for example. You might think a mob storming the seat of Government, threatening to overturn the election and to hang the Vice President, would be an “insurrection”. Especially after many of them pleaded guilty in a court of law. WRONG!!! You silly Readers. Those people were patriots! They were all pardoned within hours of the start of 47’s presidency. Because storming a building, seriously assaulting police officers, defecating on floors and desks, and erecting a scaffold complete with noose, are apparently not criminal offences. It was a ‘day of love’. The rioters, to quote idiot congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia, were no different from ordinary sightseers. But when citizens exercise their First Amendment right to protest against this Administration’s policy of sending masked thugs to manhandle and arrest illegal immigrants, they are mounting an insurrection which then justifies the President deploying Marines and the National Guard to quell the insurrection, even though it is not an insurrection. Not only that. According to Cosplay Barbie, aka Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Guard and the troops were there, not that they should have been there at all, ‘to liberate” the city from the ‘socialist and burdensome leadership’ of the city (Mayor Karen Bass) and the state (Governor Gavin Newsome). So this is apparently about regime change.  i.e. the change of the democratically elected Mayor of LA and Governor of California. What does the word ‘liberate’ mean?  And what or with whom are they planning to replace the’socialist and burdensome leadership’ with? But this is now the mindset. 47 announced that anyone who protested against his military parade on Saturday (on the day that just happens to be his birthday) would face ‘serious consequences’. So this is not only about regime change, it also seems to be about suspending the First Amendment as well. 

And here is another phrase – ‘food aid’. You might think it means aiding people by giving them food. Except that in the case of the Israeli Army, it means allowing hardly any food in, having prevented any getting into Gaza for weeks, and then shooting anyone who turns up trying to get it. So that the only aid the Godforsaken people of Gaza seem to be getting is a bullet rather than a square meal.

Humpty Dumpty was right. It is all about whether lies can be the master – and increasingly, they are. 

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We start our review of the week’s abysmal attire at the Fourth Black Women on Broadway event with actor Danielle Brooks, who recently starred in The Color Purple, wearing – well, who even knows what this is supposed to be?

 

Quite apart from the fact that she looks as if she is in her jimjams, those are perhaps the most unflattering shorts ever in the history of ever, particularly the way that they fly up and out at a right angle. Not to mention the alarming labial folds. And no, you are not getting a lookalikey picture.

This week also saw the BET (Black Entertainment Television) Awards in Los Angeles. Among those present was singer Ciara, wearing Cong Tri.

That skirt is resembles untamed pubes and she has a horse’s tail exiting from her nether regions, like a female Minotaur.

 

 

Now we are at the Tribeca Film Festival where we find Miley Cyrus wearing Schiaparelli.

Her head is beautiful, but the handbag is better suited to a five year old girl and the furry stuff makes her look like Cousin Itt from The Addams Family. 

 

Here we are at the Tonys, the Broadway equivalent of the Oscars, where distinguished thespians were in attendance, including Sarah Paulson, also wearing Schiaparelli. Schiaparelli is on a roll – downhill into the ordure.

Until the hips, it  is fabulously chic and sexy but then extreme schizophrenia sets in with the unexpected arrival of ANOTHER dress altogether randomly tacked onto the one she is already wearing, complete with titsy bodice and a lot of gold brocade. A doctor writes – this is not normal.

 

Meet actor Sydney James Harcourt from Hamilton wearing a Phix suit, Orrtu singlet and Steve Madden lurex boots.

If a lacy top went to a fancy dress party as a feline wet dream, this is what it would look like.

 

Another newcomer to these pages,  playwright Kimberley Belflower wearing a frothy confection.

Actually, this is not so much confection as confectionary. The Quality Street hazelnut purple confectionary to be precise. They taste lovely. But the wrappers do not translate well into clothing and there appears to be no good reason why there is additional tit netting. This is overkill. Whatever you might say about the dress, it is in no need of additional embellishment. Enough already.

 

And this is also an absolute shocker on artist Ashley Longshore. Careful now……

On seeing this, WTF yelped and then she yelped some more. And kept on yelping. Ashley is in that terrible jazz hands pose much favoured by Sir Elton John’s spouse David Furnish, adopting as well the open-mouthed expression and popping eyes, as if something had been inserted into her bottom.  It is terrible. The whole thing is terrible, a barrage balloon in popsox.

This week’s It’s Got To Go comes from WTF aficionado WTF of Islington whose eye was caught by this deeply revolting picture of gourmet pasta. Watch out….

WTF is sure that they taste delicious. But they looks like labia with green pubic hair. Perhaps they should be called labiatini con peli pubici verdi. Yurgle. It’s Got to Go.

Ok Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your top suggestions for It’s Got to Go as well as your comments, which WTF much enjoys. Not just that, but she pines if she does not get them. Don’t make her pine! You can follow me on @wtffashionshark.bsky.social. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x