Thursday, November 29, 2007

Bold Fashion Choices--Lois Lane Edition

Those of you who are sensitive, or easily put into comas or seizures, might want to avert your eyes from what comes next. Because, man, we are dipping back into the '70s for this monstrosity:

The cover that inspired What Not To WearI did warn you. Let's go to the close-up, Monstrobot:

I don't think Woodward or Bernstein dressed like this...Man. I mean, like, wow. Uh, Lois...did you ever think that the reason Superman is running away from you just might have something to do with that outfit you're wearing?? I mean, good golly...no wonder they want to kill you!!

In fairness, the outfit Lois wears inside the actual story isn't quite so hideous (not that that is saying much):

One would think chloroform wouldn't work, since that dress could wake the deadDon't let your guard down, troops: Lois has many more fashion flops that we'll be covering in future days. But this...this has got to be the worst, right?

Your bonus Superman panel of the day:

Apparently, 'hombre' cannot be translated into EnglishSuperman with an eyepatch...there;s a concept I can get behind.

Lois' outfit, which resulted the addition of several articles to the Geneva Convention in order to ban torture by mod outfit, is from Lois Lane #120, 1972.

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