Dead Dog Houndstooth Bag

Fuzzy Nation's Boston Houndstooth Bag. Send this one to the pound.

Houndstooth London

London was drowning in black and white duotone madness. Everyone was sporting houndstooth jackets, sweaters, umbrellas, socks. Houndstooth was even the focus of the Jaeger window displays.


And feeling left out, Burberry has been pushing a black and white duotone version of their check which in their window displays just looks like a desperate attempt to fit in.

Houndstooth Nails

J sent me this link. Asami's got some smokin' nails. I love heavily detailed nails. I'd rather see paisley on these fingers though. The black and white reminds me of men's ties or women's broaches with piano key patterns. I can't stand jewellery or ties with piano keys or musical notes. Drives me crazy!! Anyway, I think I'm going to do my nails tonight. Something like these. I spotted them on Half and Half's blog.


More houndstooth nails on Houndstooth Nails Part II

Sienna Miller's Charlie Brown Fetish

Sienna Miller is getting thrashed for this fashion blunder at ShoWest but I'm actually on the fence as to whether it really even constitutes houndstooth. Sky's showbiz site is calling the fiasco "Si's Houndstooth Horror" but I gotta say that it is soooo eccentric I'm gonna let it slide. Yes it is horrible, yes she looks like an aquarium fish with a Charlie Brown sweater fetish, or a feathered reject from a Star Trek episode, but only bold experiments drive fashion forward. At least she isn't wearing some boringly traditional white and black houndstooth garb. She's making a stand in those hot zippered heels.

Houndstooth Textile

My uncomfortable conversation at the London Textile Company...

Me: Hi, do you sell houndstooth?

Him: Yes, we sell houndstooth. What kind?

Me: Just wondering if you sell more houndstooth now than a few years ago.

Him: No. Same amount. Very popular. Why?

Me: I hate it. Can I buy a square foot of it?

Him: We sell by the meter.

Me: Can I buy a meter?

Him: No. We don't sell just a meter. You need more to make a jacket.

Me: Oh, I'm not making a jacket.

Him: What are you making?

Me: Never you mind! Never you mind!

Houndstooth Serviette

There's not much to say in this post. Basically I found an incredibly bizarre set of serviettes with a chicken and houndstooth pattern at Munich airport, went to Munich's Temple Bar in Kultfabrik, and made people hold it while I took photos of them. Although these people are smiling in the photos I'm not sure they were totally happy about posing for the stranger with the chicken serviette. Especially the couple I trapped in the washroom. I kept pointing out to them that it was a serviette with a chicken and two houndstooth patterns and I'd laugh and laugh and point at the serviette again and again but they didn't seem to get the joke. It's all in good fun though, right? The guy with the 'almost mullet' had a wicked jacket on. I tried to do a trade for the serviette but he quite rightly refused.

Fashion for Dogs

See if you can spot the difference between these two photos. I can't.

Top outfit available at SpoilUrPets. But if you really love your dog you'll buy it something from Alexander McQueen. Although the animal could end up looking like his charity work for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Alive and Well project.

Comparisons Involving Houndstooth

This is a frame from Antonioni's L'Avventura and the character of the man here really reminds me of myself when I have my houndstooth tantrums. Although... I don't have a yacht on the Mediterranean of course. The best is the woman is all hideously offended because she just made the comparison of the surface of the sea to oil and that was his response to her.

"I don't know why, but I hate houndstooth!".

The Hahnentrittmuster Man

Quebec City has Bonhomme:



London has the Pearly King and Queen:



Munich has the Hahnentrittmuster Man:


The Hahnentrittmuster Man, or Houndstooth Man, roams around Munich's party and bar scene (I found him in the Kultfabrik) making sure everyone has a hellus or dunkel in their hand and is having a good time. His friendly personality lightens the hearts of all partygoers and his houndstooth costume keeps the evening jovial and eccentric. At the end of the night a strange bavarian ceremony takes place where attendees gather to burn effigies of the Hahnentrittmuster Man to ward off evil spirits and hangovers. Bakery shops also sell little cakes made of marzipan and sausage cut into the shape of the Hahnentrittmuster Man. Children take these to school in their lunch buckets but hardly ever eat them.

Houndstooth and Gators

Beyonce needs guardian reptiles to protect herself from the hoardes of angry G20 protesters who demand an end to the criminal pattern.

Actually, this may just be a check pattern. Lord knows I've tried zooming in on this picture again and again but it pixelates way too early. Anyways, it is duotone nonsense.