THE CHRISTMAS FAIRY OF 1958, LOS ANGELES
This slide isn’t about the flocked tabletop tree hung with tinsel and pointy pale pink ornaments that match the curtains. Or the mess of gifts both wrapped an unwrapped, including an ice-o-mat and that very odd shaped gift doing a balancing act in the corner. This slide is about the guy wearing lipstick and matching high-heeled thongs. Well, he’s at least wearing one high heel shoe. Looks like his other foot is missing or perhaps it’s twisted sideways for dramatic effect. The red goes quite nicely with those teal trousers and black button front short-sleeved shirt with the collar turned up.
The cocktail glass he’s holding in his hand is empty. Either he just drank it all or just spilled it. Either way it’s ok because there’s another one waiting for him on the rug nest to his phantom foot. And how about that cuckoo-yet-festive headpiece he has on the top of his head. Clearly its hand made but how and out of what I have no idea. Did he learn to weave ribbon in prison or something? And judging by the way his painted lips are open he’s having a ho-ho-ho moment!
Here’s to a high heeled, ho-ho-ho, cuckoo Christmas and YOU!
This is one of my absolute FAVORITE slides…makes me laugh hysterically every time! What a gem you are, Charles Phoenix!!!
Don we now our gay apparel
There is a knee in the lower portion of that photo and I’m thinkin it’s not his wife’s. Heh heh…. Love the retro tree.
You forgot to mention those fabulous Joan Crawford-esque eyebrows……….what a great Christmas slide Charles!
That’s great, Charles! I’ll be doing the same thing tonight, but hopefully my peep toes will be a bit more ‘haute’.
Charles, Charles, Charles. . . Did you mean The Christmas Fairy?
I do believe he’s a relative of Sean Penn…I see a striking resemblance.
it’s definitely made of pipe cleaners. where can i get one for MY cukoo christmas?
That shoe fits, and he’s wearin’ it. Those ornaments match those drapes PERFECTLY. This is not the sort of picture he would have wanted circulating in 1958.
I was expecting some sort of christmas boat from the email caption…
Oh goodie, a great laugh from one of the FUNNIEST write-ups!
That boy is having tooooo much fun !
Gotta love ‘im, he out of the closet at last !!
He’s having an LGBT moment. Let’s Get Blitzed Tonight.
I think that’s my Uncle Charlotte. If so, those are antennae. He’s part lobster. And that shoe fits him perfectly. It’s either his, or there’s a woman with man-sized feet at that party.
Yikes!!!
Man, that is 1 disturbing pic…
I guess the 1950′s weren’t as boring or conservative (at least in L.A.) as we’ve been led to believe!
That’s one SCARY FAIRY! The Fairy-of-Christmas-Past’s headpiece looks like a tagger’s scrawl.