0
It’s an important thing to do if you’re a Mormon! A practicing Mormon who created a calendar with pictures of shirtless (male) Mormon missionaries has been excommunicated after a disciplinary meeting with his local church leaders in Las Vegas.
The man with a calendar mission - Chad Hardy - bears no ill will towards the council of elders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He’s an entrepreneur and he says ‘I spoke my truth …they still felt the calendar is inappropriate and not the image that the church wants to have.’ The calendar, called Men on a
It isn’t yet clear if action will be taken against the 12 modelling Mormons by their church elders.
James Galdolfini, who starred as Tony Soprano in the cult American gangster series bearing his name, is auctioning off key items from the show for charity. The garments include the button-down blue shirt he wore in the opening credits and the bathrobe he donned to fetch the morning newspaper.
More excitingly, he’s also put up for sale the blood-splattered costume he wore when shot by Uncle Junior – a black and tan coloured polo-shirt and black trousers – together expected to raise around £1,500. Profits from this cult culture auction being organised by Christie’s
The costumes for the series were designed by Juliet Polsca, who earned two Emmy nominations and a Costume Designers Guild Award.
Tony poster courtesy of Joxin
Auctions come and auctions go, but this auction featured a polo shirt that has taken its former owner to the stars. Bidding for the pink polo shirt once owned by NASA astronaut Eileen Collins opened on 1 April at just $10. A week later and more than a day before its auction was set to close, collectors had pushed its price up to $300 and the final winning bid was $520.
“I can’t say it was easy for me to donate such an important part of my past,” Collins said. She wore the shirt while training for her four space shuttle missions and her career was a glittering one indeed. In 1995 she was the first female U.S. astronaut to pilot a spacecraft and just four years later, she was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. Most recently, and humblingly, it was Collins who led the shuttle fleet’s 2005 return to flight after the loss of Columbia and its crew in 2003.
This shirt was important to her because Collins has only a few mementos from her time in space. “Astronauts can keep very little. [I have] only the personal items, such as my wedding ring, old toothbrushes, and some shirts!” she said. She donated the shirt, which is embroidered with her name and her astronaut class’ nickname, “The Hairballs,” on its front to be part of an annual auction run by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). Founded by the Mercury astronauts in 1984, the ASF supports college students who are excelling in their pursuit of science and engineering degrees to give them the best chance of doing what Collins did – saying The Sky’s The Limit.
Polo-shirt image courtesy of austronaut scholarship foundation
After a gloomy Christmas, high street retailers are pessimistic. Debt-laden customers face the reality that years of carefree spending, fuelled by record levels of cheap credit, may be coming to an end. But in a typically British fashion, rather than going for the burn of not shopping, we’ve been exploring how resourcefully we can continue to get the shopping buzz without the hefty bill, and while high street shops took a hit over Christmas and the New year, two sectors made big gains: the charity sector enjoyed sales growth of 5% in the run-up to Christmas and home shopping took off in a big way.
This year 4.4 million people turned their backs on the festivities on Christmas Day itself, preferring to shop online for TVs, mobile phones and washing machines, with virtual tills ringing up £84m - a staggering 270% increase on 2006. Men, right across the world, fuelled a large part of the post-Christmas sales online too, both shopping for electrical goods and, interestingly, buying new clothes – were they fed up with being taunted about their lack of sex appeal over Christmas, I wonder? It seems that men use down-time, Bank Holiday weekends, Public Holidays etc to hoover up clothing bargains and one reason for this may be that they can sit down with their wife or girlfriend, and a laptop, and buy online with expert advice alongside them, but without the hassle of wandering the high street with shopping bags, or the humiliation of being seen by their mates out shopping.
Internet shopping by Pandemia
Back to top
Loading ...
