Figure 1 – Mannequin in a black dress, IPhone photograph, (c) DE Wolf 2014.

There is something both appealing and haunting about mannequins.  They are almost human and at the same time other worldly.  And, I suppose, for people like me who grew up watching the Twilight Zone called “The After Hours” and the adventures of a certain Miss Marsha White, played by the beautiful Anne Francis, in a department store.  She ultimately discovers that she is herself merely (?) a mannequin.  It is an adventure that can only happen in (doo-dee-doo-doo) the twilight zone.

So I was thinking about Miss White this morning as I was walking in the mall (IPhone camera in hand) in quest for my espresso.  There she was in a simple, yet elegant, tasteful black dress. She had no hair and her eyes were darkened by deep shadows giving her a most alien specter.