You Can’t Get Raped If You Dress Up Like A Coca-Cola Machine!
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12:40PM, Monday November 16th 2009
Rape sucks. So does getting mugged. But by disguising yourself as a life-sized Coca-Cola machine whenever you’re out late at night and feel threatened, you can hide from the bad guys! Seriously? Seriously. According to Bust magazine, Japanese designer Aya Tsukioka has invented an ankle-length skirt constructed from fabric that can be pulled upside down and assembled into a somewhat realistic-looking Coke machine (albeit one with feet poking out from the bottom). What inspired Tsukioka to make her safety skirt? She says a trick used by ninja assassins who would cloak themselves in black blankets in the dark.
Hopefully, while studying the ways of ninja assassins, Tsukioka picked up some self-defense moves that could actually save her because methinks this “Project-Runway”-challenge-gone-wrong won’t work. Here’s hoping she’s using the skirt as street theater to make a statement about the lengths women will go to in order to protect themselves. [Bust Magazine]
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ElleSays
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 12:48 pm: [report]
Hopefully you don’t fall victim to a thirsty bad guy
C.Munro
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 12:55 pm: [report]
I guess in Japan people are too civilized to do something so ghastly as to try and rip off a vending machine.
I wonder how to say, “Cut it out, there’s no change in there” in Japanese.
Riley
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 01:26 pm: [report]
Saw this on buzzfeed a while ago; I thought it was a Halloween costume.
It is neat how it concealed in the skirt.
femmefatale
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 01:32 pm: [report]
when you do plant yourself and go in disguise though? on the run from a bad guy? weird.
ladymisstiff
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 03:59 pm: [report]
I was taught to put my coat on backwards and mumble/shout nonsensical outbursts when having to walk home through scary parts of town - because NO ONE wants to mess with a crazy chick
verynervous
wrote on November 16 2009 @ 07:05 pm: [report]
Finally, a way for victims to predict that they will be raped and prevent it from happening.
/sad sarcasm
bogart4017
wrote on November 17 2009 @ 10:04 am: [report]
What will they think of next. I wonder how this will go over in the US.
CaleeKay
wrote on November 17 2009 @ 07:35 pm: [report]
this is what they must wear when they do their escorting/prostituting thing.. when they arent in the mood, they flip it around and ask if they would like a coke instead..