ok, so i heard the most disgusting story yesterday.
a coworker, jen, was telling me about an incident that occurred at the clothing store she used to work at. they had a nice silk dress there that was always getting returned. the customers complained that it gave them a rash, which the girls at the store didn't think much of--people will make up all kinds of excuses when they return something. but after it was returned a few times and they actually saw the rash covering the neck and around the wrists of one of the customers, they took the dress in to do a textile analysis at the university.
it turned out the dress had mortuary makeup on it.
someone had put their dead relative or whatever in the dress and returned it to the store! uggggggg!!!
a coworker, jen, was telling me about an incident that occurred at the clothing store she used to work at. they had a nice silk dress there that was always getting returned. the customers complained that it gave them a rash, which the girls at the store didn't think much of--people will make up all kinds of excuses when they return something. but after it was returned a few times and they actually saw the rash covering the neck and around the wrists of one of the customers, they took the dress in to do a textile analysis at the university.
it turned out the dress had mortuary makeup on it.
someone had put their dead relative or whatever in the dress and returned it to the store! uggggggg!!!
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In a crime short story conveniently entitled DRESSED TO KILL (Mike Shayne Mistery Magazine, March 1982), Joseph Commings "uses" as a "lethal weapon" a white silk dress (highly symbolic, isn't it?) impregnated with "mortuary fluid".... for dramatic effect purpose he exaggerated slightly formaldehyde's nocivity...
But do we have to exclude a priori that "urban legends" may be somehow grounded on real facts? or that they could give nasty ideas to nasty persons? (cf. the past "fucking heartless" SG thread)