Vampire Fashion
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0This poor girl keeps ending up with weirdos. Stacy has clearly broken up with her warlock boyfriend, only to move on to badly dressed vampires. Ugh…men!
Apparently Stacy, the girl who dates weird supernatural men, is a recurring character now.
I seriously don’t know how vampires in modern films manage to keep themselves so well groomed when they don’t have reflections. There must be a lot of vampire barbers or personal assistants that help them get ready every night, but that has to get expensive…
I know this is a silly joke, but I just love vampires and all the random bits of lore attached to them. They’re one of those pervasive concepts, like dragons, that have a very clear progression from their place in folklore to more modern literary usage. It’s fun to nitpick at all the odd little characteristics they’ve acquired over the years. At least, I think it is!
Either way, being a vampire can’t be easy but dating a vampire is obviously no picnic, either. For instance, you can’t even have a proper picnic. Such a shame! In my lifetime, I’ve figured out that most of the point of having a relationship is to go out on picnics. If you are not picnicking, what are you doing together? You should probably examine your priorities and see if you are really supposed to be with one another. The quality of a relationship corresponds directly to the quality of the picnics the two individuals in question share together.
That’s just good relationship advice, vampires or not.
Okay, I started out thinking I’d write a blog post about vampires and have now begun to talk about the importance of picnics in human relationships. Whatever illness has been eating away at my body for the last four days has clearly made its way to my mind. I will have to go lie down before any lasting damage is done.
At least I got the comic up on time today!
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Probably because some of the modern film vampires tend to ignore a lot of the old vampire disadvantages. It’s kinda lame that way.
Yeah, I wonder if people said the same thing in Stoker’s time though. “Man, vampires were so much edgier when they were disgusting and hideous!”
At least Stoker was 100% guilty of this inconsistency in Dracula. He popularizes the idea that they have no reflections but Dracula himself is remarkably well groomed all the time!
He has three vampire concubines in his castle to groom him.
I think that landed folks had servants who dress them up during that time…though the mental image when I read “groom” is seeing three women groom him like a cat would.
With their tongues. O_O
this is why I like Butcher’s take on vampires: three different courts, White Red and Black; white = incubii/sucubii, red= buffy-style vamps, black= fairytale/Stoker types.
Also, Wood, I agree, why else hypnotize virgins?
Yes, me too. Nice warring factions feel.
The joke is so old, but I still laughed, mostly because he really is ridiculously dressed, good job!
haha I know people have made a lot of jokes about vampires and mirrors, but I tried to take to take it in a different direction! :X
Personal assistants is the way to go. The one thing I learned from playing Vampire The Masquerade: get a ghoul/Renfield/whatever you want to call it. Life on your own as a vampire is just too hard.
If your assistant has no fashion sense, there’s no help for that, though.
I get that Vampire’s can’t see their own reflections in mirrors.
But wouldn’t their clothing still reflect light?
And what about make-up for face-paint? Wouldn’t that be reflected, too?
And is it just mirrored glass? What about polished metal, or water, or reflective plastic?
Or does the root of that particular disability lie with vampires being so hideous they couldn’t “bear to look at themselves” or something?
I believe the reason vampires don’t cast shadows has something to do with not having a living soul.
Yup! That’s been the traditional view, anyway, same with reflections in mirrors!
The whole thing about vampires and mirrors is rooted in the material. Often the case, silver is the base for having a shine to the mirror. That so, silver is often associated as a holy or magical metal and would not reflect the image of evil in it as well as warding it off, Sometimes silver is referenced directly to defend against vampires as it burns them on contact or makes bonds they can not break.
That’s along the lines of what I’ve heard, too. Silver is known for its purity, making it a handy weapon against unholy creatures of the night (somehow).
As for how silver got that reputation, I think it is known to resist bacteria growth or something?
I’ve heard silver for vampires was because Judas was supposed to have been the first vampire and the silver he took to betray Jesus hurts him. For werewolves, it’s the element of the moon.
In most stories I’ve read, vampires can’t see their reflection because an image of yourself was thought to be a piece of your soul, and vampires don’t have one (as K said).
Good one! Hilarious in it’s obviousness.
Maybe they wear red, white, and black because it’s like Garanimals for vampires.
I’m now imagining the Cullen clan grooming each other in the morning…
Like a pack of apes, only less intelligent.
When I asked my DW, “How do vampires groom themselves?”, she immediately began pantomiming a cat, licking her shoulders and hands. Vampires must stink to high heaven. Unrelated: Stacie’s knees look rather raw. What are we to infer from this?
She plays lacrosse.
I love you.
I have thought about the possibility of having a vampire boyfriend, and I have decide against it. I hate getting my blood drawn, and so I would not be able to satisfy his desire for my blood. It always happens when a vampire, and a human gets together, but It would creep me out too much.
I may be new here, but that Stacy girl seems like a bitch.
Bwa-Hahahaha!!!! I so need to show this to Xe’nedra (the daughter) – she will love it.
Is it me, or the vampire looks like Stephen King?
I want to know what vampires like to wear
I can’t help but notice how much the vampire’s clothes resembles another certain, unfortunately gaudy character in another webcomic.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02
:3 I love the reference.