Thursday, April 16, 2015

Throwback Thursday: His Hanes


Back in 1998, this pin-up girl artwork by Gil Elvgren inspired me to modify it in a femulating way and post it in my old blog nFem. I gave the girl a boy's haircut, modified her bra so that her bust appeared to be more boy-like and added the caption to parody the classic tagline from the Hanes' ads of the 1970s and 1980s.


The parody took on a life of its own and appeared on the Internet in places where girls like us hang out.

Also, my parody (or Elvgren's original) may have inspired a photographic version, which I found on Pinterest.


Always trying to improve things, I took another stab at the parody in 2004. I changed the femulator's haircut, thickened her eyebrows, inserted falsies, added the package of Hanes hosiery and the blurb below the tagline.


Always trying to improve things, I may revisit the parody in the near future.

10 Million and Counting


Earlier this week, the hit counter for this blog passed the 10 million mark! I thank you all for making that possible.

On a typical day, Femulate gets about 5,000 hits, but as I write this midday on Wednesday, the blog has gotten over 36,000 hits so far! That's about a week's worth of hits in half a day! What is going on?






Source: ShopBop

Wearing Sally LaPointe (coat), J.W. Anderson (skirt) and Vince (blouse)



Walton Goggins in television's Sons of Anarchy.

9 comments:

  1. Good morning Stana,
    I am glad you posted the picture from Sons of Anarchy. I watched the entire show and liked it. I even liked Mr. Goggins' performance as Venus. I truly did not like her beard though. If someone is to get such a boob job, I would be extremely surprised if they would choose to keep their beard; and she does say so during the show, that she kept it. Aside from that, I thought it was in interesting character.
    I would just like to say add, you absolutely must watch episode 10 of season 7. I don't want to spoil it, but it was all worth it right then and there.
    Take care, hugs and kisses!

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    1. I will look for that episode, Claude.

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  2. Stana,
    Congratulations on the milestone. Femulate is truly the standard bearer and the first place I and many others look to on a regular basis.
    The original sketch and your modifications are wonderful. They capture some of the joys as well as the dilemas that many face.
    Pat

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  3. Wow. Weird numbers on your hits.

    Congrats on crossing the 1 million mark. I wonder what that would be equivalent to in book sales. But perhaps I dwell too much on minor injustices. :-)

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    1. 10 million!

      If I had a dime for every hit... LOL

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    2. OMG!! I read it too quickly. I was only off by an order of magnitude. 10x my original congrats.

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  4. You are the best Stana!

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  5. Wow, 5,000 a day is a tremendous accomplishment. I wonder if your site has been pickup up as a reference or a resource within a major web site.

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