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Run Cat Run | The Hello Kitty Transformation Set
Speaking of Sanrio (refer to 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascots blog here)...
The unofficial mascot of cuteness is Hello Kitty, a much loved (and also much maligned) character that symbolizes everything kawaii (cute). Somewhere within the think-tanks of the cute patrol, it was decided pet cats were the next consumers of the Kitty-craze...and along came the Hello Kitty Transformation Set. (Okay, you can laugh now).
You, yes, you can torture your cat by dressing him/her up with the Hello Kitty hat, bib, collar, and matching bag...but you wouldn't do that, would you? Nah, you love your cat too much.
MORE: A gallery of real cats who've had to endure the transformation @ gizmodo.com/sadkitty
(Source: Gizmodo Japan @ http://gizmodo.com)
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This reminds me of this site I saw on Cute Overload today: http://kittywigs.com/wigindex.html
This is really cute. Cos-play for your pets. Now if I could find the Kirara (the super cat in Inuyasha) outfit. There's something really profound happening too ... does this racalize the cat, as being more Japanese?
Oh man, so cute. Do they make those for humans? I want one.
HAHAH! i have nothing productive to say about this, except that I really wish I had a cat to torture with this.. further question: does this engender the cat with a feminine identity?
So now it's a cross-dressing cat. Still cute!
Cute or creepy? Perhaps I'm the only one who finds the cat looking a little creepy.
In terms of "racializing" the cat - I've always found Hello Kitty's cultural identity intriguing. Sure, she's from Japan, but she speaks english in her cartoons. And I've never imagined her home to look more western than Japanese...
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