Ski Masks
UPDATE 07/12/05
I receive countless emails everyday asking for the patterns for these masks. I posted the instructions for a couple of months on my Flickr account which is now closed. I no longer have the magazine which I gave away. Sorry guys, but unless I come up with another copy, I can't provide you with the pattern.
Found these ski masks in McCall's Needlework & Crafts Magazine from 1965. They are all a bit disturbing, but the little girl is just plain nightmarish.
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Oh my god.
This is just wrong. I don't even know what this is but I don't want it near me.
Wait'll you see the hat that Sylvia bought me for Christmas...
The first two look like sock monkeys, and the boys mask is what, either a chicken or a Mexican wrestler?
The little girl...well...I'm going to need therapy after seeing that.
I will never recover.
I must say those are the oddest ski masks I have seen for a long time...(she speaks as if she has seen anything of the like in her life!)
quite odd and spooky....
would you like my sister to knit you one?
Hazel, I would love the ski mask of the girl, but it would do me no good since winter does not exist in Houston. Even if it did, I would be like Michael in his schoolgirl blazer, scaring little old ladies.
How excellently bizarre, looks like winter wear for the slipnot freaks; I would make one if I had the instructions, did you find them, or just the pics?
Amazing! I don't know whether these masks are for terorists of the Acid League or for the new generation of Mexican Luchadores!
The little girl would be known as The Yellow Avenger.
Camilo, LOL!
I've got 20 cms of snow and freezing rain and my face is hurting. May want to learn to knit if I can't have one of these!
This is sick and wrong. Thank you. B^)
But just think how nice that would be, all wolly against YOUR FACE!
...and you thought that SWEATER was itchy?
Was that third one Robin Williams?
i understand where the fuck boy george was coming from!!! it was that first ski mask back in '65!!
the john wayne gacy collection...
It's like Leigh Bowery, the early years.
That poor little girl looks like a burn victim.
Three words: John Wayne Gacy
*shudder*
I think I saw these on the Gong Show with Chuck Barris in the 60's. They may have won!!
People did a lot of drugs in the 60s. 'Nuff said. *shudder*
my grandmother made me one of these when I was 4. I'm 39 now, on medication, and living in another state.
Dear Lord, those masks rank up there with those of Michael (Halloween) and Jason (Friday the 13th).
Terrifying!
Holy Crapola!
Please do not adjust your monitor...Yes, that in fact is some heinous sh^t.
Please make it stop...I can't get the image of the little girl out of my mind...
Who can have a Happy New Year after seeing that?
Heh heh.
i love these - i think snowboarders will makes these masks popular again!! the second one would look great with my new Burton jacket. and the raggedy anne one is brilliant!
Wow, These are so weird I first thought it was a hoax.
The little boy must have been the inspiration for Darth Maul, but there must be laws against making little girls wear sh*t like that.
As for the adults, they're old enough to know better, unless of course they were fed Rohipnol (?sp) first.
I think the little boy is supposed to be an "Indian Brave".... you know, the 60's weren't very PC. ;)
This link made the rounds on my Stitch'nBitch listserv (knitting group) and one member had a nightmare last night about the little girl chasing her.
An Indian brave with a mustache??? Good Lord...it's like a bad car accident..I can't stop looking!!!
My eyes have been molested…
when i woke up from a drugged stupor, bound and gagged and in my underpants in a crawlspace, the guy who brought me chex mix to eat was wearing one of those.
Something died inside of me when I saw that.
Too bad the masks are for Boys/Girls aged 4-8. To make an adult one, I guess I would just 2X/3X the amount stated? I dunno...
But these masks would be ideal for people with facial deformities! As if they're not scary enough on their own.
Crimony.. those are really creepy.. like what the Partridge Family would wear if they robbed a liqor store hopped up on crank.
And to think, someone, somewhere, thought these were cute..
My brother and I had these made for us by our grandmother (items 3 and 4). Yes, I had the burn-victim little girl ski-mask, which I wore, when I was around 6-7 years old.
It was itchy. It was ugly. It was a gift of love.
Come one the first picture (the mask weared by the girl) is very stylish. I was impressed when I read that the picture was from 1965, actually i think you could walk arround with mask here in Berlin and be really hip.
Alex
How come the Jim Hensen never caught on to this? I'm sure they'd be a huge hit with sesame street/muppet characters. Come to think of it, what about KISS ski masks? Schweet.
Yes, heroin use was rampant in the sixties... Didn't realize it had made it to the knitting circles though... How would you like these to be the last thing you saw before you fell into a drug induced coma?
Hi we're the entertainment you hired for your daughters 3rd Birthday party!
Hi welcome to the neighborhood. We just call it Leperville!
Ooh, shout-out to the Strongbad reference!
But seriously, The Cheat, those are the scariest things I have ever seen, like, ever. I think if they were solid-colored they might be slightly less reminiscent of B-grade horror villains...
Yo dude, that thing is actually quite stylish, if it were in solid color. I'd so sport one of those adult men ones right about now... I'm looking at something like a blizzard outside... and the one for the boys! dude, if I tweak it to be like a strongbad mask I'd so get my kid one if I had a kid... but I do feel sorry for that girl... and myself for seeing that picture...
Okay, these masks are proof that even Suzy Homemaker did lots of LSD back in the 1960s. No wonder so many people in their early 40s are now in therapy, after having to wear those!
or ultimately, High Crimes in Fashion.
--reno
Holy God in heaven.
are we absolutely sure it's only the masks that are knitted?
I'm going to have nightmares of the stuff my grandma used to knit for me cause of this. And yes, she did knit me other things just as garish. I never learned to ski and thank goodness I didn't!
The little boy looks like a SITH from the Star Wars movies.
Now thats the kinda skimask you rob a store with!
why dear god why?
I remember being threatened with the last one as a child. My sister said she would make me wear the little girl mask if I didn't do everything she said. I made a good little slave...
I'm all better now. My three therapists said so last year...
These need to be labled and marketed as "The Pennywise Collection"
WHOA lol
You do realise I'm going to have nightmares now, don't you?
That's just not okay. Not. At. All.
i think i want them all.i'll buy some for my best friend.
My fear of clowns is cemented forever. <8oD
I think if i'm going to rob a bank i'll do it in style
well i cant imagine anyone from the SWAT team wearing on, they would problibly get shoot than give the terroorist nightmears.....
like the first one - she looks mysterious and inapproachable... has anybody the pattern and can mail?
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This is totally obsene! Reminds me of a stephen king scene, where the scarecrow dolls come to life, and their little mouths rip apart... ugh!
Gosh, if I had just seen this site before Halloween!
A "friend" sent this to me and it was the first thing I saw when I woke up!! I thought "I've got to stop taking the pain killers". Now I see I've got to find better friends.
I'd rather be faceless from frostbite.
Swampthing haute couture
They said no good could come of my
new hobby.
HA!
BTW...are the images available for
Holiday Cards?
At first i though, hm... this could be fun to wear and scare people...
then i realized how much i would scare myself... and decided against it...
Wow. I have just found my unique and slightly frightening Christmas cards. Just in time. Thanks...I think.
Also, as a knitter, I find it hard to believe that any knitter, at any time, would have lovingly made these for any child or friend, family member, etc. Unless they were enjoying a VERY cruel joke. Or they REALLY hated the recepient.
Bwahahahahahaha! Where to start... Those are just silly. Thanks for sharing.
I would make one of these just to give to my freinds and scare them to death... no but really if you saw someone sking down the mountian with you wearing ANY of these masks what would you do? I know I would probaly fall down and be scared for life... I mean Holy those are creepy.
-Danez
Ahhhhhhhhh the memories!!!! Someone in my family, if not me, wore a few of those ski masks back when I was a kid!!! My mom was good about saving childhood stuff. I used one of those masks in a liquor store robbery in 1988.
I thought i reconized you under that skimask Taxi Bill, but i couldnt give an exact iD at the picture lineup at the station. yes i e-mailed this to my 74 year old mother, and she told me some info about these skimasks, and it reminded me that i had one too once, oh my God ...forgive me for my sin.
i laughed, i cried, i even sh*t my pants a little!
i think i just pissed my pants.
It looks like it would be good for holloween. It would scare the $hit out of every body!! how scary!
OMG I laughed so hard I sprayed OJ all over the monitor when I saw that. Man it's one of those funny as hell and scary as hell things I've seen. I agree the little girl cracks me up and also creeps me out some.
I'd love to know if anyone is making any of these for sale because I'd love to buy some for when I'm on the slopes and freaking outthe other skiiers and boarders.
A nice older lady in my knitting group gave me this magazine. I could not believe it. She gave me TWO copies. I had to keep one, just for laughs.
I'm not sure WHAT the creator of those things was on, but I'm staying far, far away from it...Don't they violate the Geneva Convention or something?
soo cool
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