An old friend of mine was always into the vaudville slapstick anticks of clowns, where they would fill someone's hat with gunge or slime of somesort and then plop it down on the victim's head. Whenever we would roleplay I always knew she was going to do that to me. LOL!
Although we've only done it occasionally, I'm in favour.
Many years back I saw a gameshow where a woman, perched on a seat above a huge gunge tank, and knowing she was going to get tipped in, first had to answer three questions. For each question she got wrong gunge was going to be poured over her from above before she got tipped in. She was wearing a baseball cap. Personally, I loved the result, as the brim of the cap kept her face clean while the gunge still went all over her clothes, so we could see her reactions as the mess flowed over her.
As someine who is all about seeing mess flowing into and over someone's clothes and into their lap, while hopefully they enjoy the experience, seeing her face kept clean was brilliant. Of course she got totally messy, and lost her hat, when they tipped her into the tank.
JazzTalker said: Rich of Slapstickstuff has some stellar instances of this, although it looks like it didn't happen as often as I seem to remember!
LOL.... I saw this thread and considered posting, but it was late and I figured, "Someone's bound to post the old SS clips eventually." And I was right!
The whole "cute girl gets messy in a sexy tux outfit with top hat" was a trademark of ours in the early days. The slime or glop in their hat didn't happen ALL the time, but I'd say at least 10 times, minimum. Eventually I got rid of the look once download sales let me know that the average customer disliked hats of any kind. Although it stuck around for a few models (Toshia!!) who just seemed perfect for that vibe. By the same token, "cute girl in a baker's hat" was also a thing for years. Especially if Carrie was involved.
These days, knowing what I know now, I'll either avoid hats completely OR have the model lose it early on.... like with the occasional baker's skit. The top hats are basically gone, but they had a good run. In fact, some of my best "hat gungings" happened in the HD era! (See below...)
JazzTalker said: Rich of Slapstickstuff has some stellar instances of this, although it looks like it didn't happen as often as I seem to remember!
LOL.... I saw this thread and considered posting, but it was late and I figured, "Someone's bound to post the old SS clips eventually." And I was right!
The whole "cute girl gets messy in a sexy tux outfit with top hat" was a trademark of ours in the early days. The slime or glop in their hat didn't happen ALL the time, but I'd say at least 10 times, minimum. Eventually I got rid of the look once download sales let me know that the average customer disliked hats of any kind. Although it stuck around for a few models (Toshia!!) who just seemed perfect for that vibe. By the same token, "cute girl in a baker's hat" was also a thing for years. Especially if Carrie was involved.
These days, knowing what I know now, I'll either avoid hats completely OR have the model lose it early on.... like with the occasional baker's skit. The top hats are basically gone, but they had a good run. In fact, some of my best "hat gungings" happened in the HD era! (See below...)
I forgot about those Shelly clips! She did resigned humiliation so so well.
I like seeing nice clothing messed up. So my favorite hat scene is Maureen O'Hara in McLintock. Seeing that pretty green dress all muddy was great. Sad she was the only woman in the scene (seeing some other women in nice dresses from that era join her in the mud would have been nice) but you take what you can get. And then the feather in the cap, so to speak, was the line at least your hat was saved just before the hat got the mud treatment was perfectly timed for comedic effect. I realize that pulling that off in a pie scene would be difficult, but maybe some mud producers could duplicate the effect. Also, Allwam.net had some nice hats and purses in their messy scenes.
In the early part of the 20th century -- the heyday of mainstream WAM? -- women ALWAYS wore hats. One of the first women pied in "Keystone Hotel" (1935), a tribute to the slapstick silents, was wearing a hat. (She may be Vivien Oakland.) And the first woman hit in "The Battle of the Century" (Dorothy Coburn) is wearing a hat.