Thursday, August 13, 2009

Don't Feed the Garanimals

Ok, so a few weeks ago I was visiting with my sisters at my parent's house in Nevada. We were talking Garanimals, of all things. Except I was saying it wrong. I was saying "Geranimals". I stand corrected.

Anyway, in case you do not know what these are, they are a line of children's clothing consisting basically of t-shirts (long sleeve and short sleeve), pants and shorts. On each item of clothing there is a "hang tag". On each Hang Tag there is a little animal. This is to help the toddler learn how to MATCH his or her clothes together without help from Mom or Dad. One of my sisters didn't realize this. She knew there were animals on the tags, but never realized the purpose behind them. Well, the Garan clothing company has been doing their little matchy hang tags since about the time I was born.

Back then they looked like the one one the left. Now, they look more like the one on the right.






















So a friend and I were talking, and he is color blind. He stated that he only wears his "outfits" in the same coordinating ensemble his wife buys them in, as he is color blind. Then he made a comment that perhaps they should make a line of Garanimals for men. But instead of animal hang tags, maybe they could have tools on them or something. "I don't know about this concept," I said. "I mean, there is color coordination, which is fine. But there is just something about a grown man all "matchy-matchy" that just seems too weird."

I mean, seriously, though... Do we WANNA see grown men walk around like this...



Love these 2 in any movie together, by the way!








Yeah... I didn't think so. No. I think the Garanimals for Men can stay on the back burner for a little while longer. Hehehe! :)

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Haha!

When Josh and I were first together I had to give him a huge lesson on matching outfits.

Dianne said...

Seems to me these days anything and everything goes, even if it shouldn't leave the closet! Tell him to wear what he likes and everybody else can just CHILL. My attitude for the day. Dr. gaave me some NEW PILLS yesterday. I think I like them heh heh heh

Ruthykins said...

that top picture of the little boy is freakin' awesome! i love the belt! i should totally make andrew dress like that!

Zed said...

Garanimals for adults. Something to think about.

Rhonda said...

Super pics! lol

Well they can do the tools on the tag of NON matchy matchy things that Match. Ya know, khaki pants with an olive green shirt. How 'bout that!?!?! lol

purplehaze said...

LOL, I always have a hard time getting my husband to match, but those pictures are way to much! Never liked plaid anyway, but it reminds me when our daughter was in kindergarten and I came home from work he had her dressed in a red and green plaid skirt and a pink and purple flower shirt! It was a good thing I came home before she went to school. My husband said that is what she wanted to wear!!

Holli and Billy said...

I have bought some Garanimals clothes, and I seriously didn't know that was what the animal tags were for! I guess if you see Hailey wearing mis-matched clothes, now you know why!!

okeydokeyifine said...

note his shirt is TUCKED in Ruthykins. That is all.

Laura said...

WOW! I LEARNED SOMETHING! I remember Garanimals.. but I remember them from when Nathan was little... do they still make them? I did not know the tags were to help the kids match their clothes. lol

ann said...

yea, i wanna! i would love a great laugh everytime i went out the front door. because i WOULD NOT let my husband were these! out of the house anyway!! hehehe

Megan said...

OMGosh! Can you only imagine? LMAO!!

That last pic is so pathetically hilarious! {well, all of them are, but that one made me chuckle the most.}

Jimmy Boston said...
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Jimmy Boston said...

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