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Ridiculous Model Caption Contest 27

August 5, 2011 By Joe | Heads up: Buying via our links may result in us getting a commission. Also, we take your privacy rights seriously. Head here to learn more.

Topman Ecru Bird Printed Shirt – $72.00

They’re supposed to be selling clothes (or in some cases, cologne.)  That’s the bottom line of every fashion show, high gloss magazine ad, and website photo ever created.  Because in the end if they don’t move product, the business will fail.  Which leads a lot of us to ask when seeing some of the photos the fashion & retail community produces: Who are they selling to anyway?  Once a week you’ll find another head scratching nightmare fuel photo here, awaiting your caption.  Feel free to leave your submission in the comments section below.
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Afflicted with the same rare disease Benjamin Button suffered from, the Bearded Lady struggles with her elderly wardrobe as she ages in reverse.
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Comments

  1. Nobody says

    August 5, 2011 at 8:48 AM

    I’m pretty sure you just won the contest with that caption, friend.

  2. Brock Carter says

    August 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM

    Mose Schrute, too, left Scranton to chase his true love: fashion. His label, Rad-ish, is available fall 2012.

  3. miketramontano says

    August 5, 2011 at 12:34 PM

    has anyone seen my right chest pocket?

  4. MarkC says

    August 5, 2011 at 12:55 PM

    Edgar Allen Poe VI solemnly gazes over his audience, then delivers his line –

    “Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly
    shore –
    Tell me when my stock portfolio shall soar’
    Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'”

  5. daliam says

    August 5, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    Don’t move, there’s a bug on you. Let me get it.

  6. Anonymous says

    August 6, 2011 at 12:28 AM

    “This is not what I had in mind when I became a male model.”

  7. Greg says

    August 6, 2011 at 4:20 AM

    I gotta wear this…are you serious…?

  8. Twosevens says

    August 6, 2011 at 7:08 AM

    Hipster Huckleberry Finn is SOOOO not white washing that fence in his old (new) bird shirt.

  9. Vernon Burt says

    August 10, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    I don’t care if Aunt Edna bought it, I’m a grown man and I can wear what pajamas I want!

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