Free Katy!
Did anyone else ever read Katy Keene? I would read her in the Archie Comics when I was a little girl, and for a while, right after college, I deputized Mr. dress A Day to look for them whenever he saw a box of old comics. (Not that he ever found any, the boxes being mainly stocked with homoerotic Batman/Superman adventures …)
Katy Keene was a fashion designer (or sometimes a model, or sometimes, I don’t know, a pin-up astronaut, these are comics we’re talking about) and her clothes were all designed by her readers. Yes, that’s right. They let glamour-freak little girls aged about 8 to 14 design what Katy Keene wore. Lamé at all hours of the day, crazy fur, ruffles on top of ruffles on top of bows. Bling of all kinds and all nations. check out the image above — if this is what Katy (and her arch-rival, Gloria) wore to a dog SHOW, what do you think they wore on dates? Let’s just say, that, if Katy were real, the price of marabou would have topped $100/barrel.Now Archie Comics has brought Katy Keene back, and put out the call for readers to design for her again. Which is a good thing, because frankly? The girl needs help. (That’s her on the left.) I know Katy Keene has a career (as opposed to Betty and Veronica, who have been living at home for roughly sixty-five years) but that doesn’t mean she has to dress like a working girl! Seriously — this is SO wrong. What happened to the organza frills of yesteryear? I think we need to do a guerrilla takeover of Katy Keene. If we overwhelm them with outfits that don’t yell “I was Hooker #3 in the movie Angel,” perhaps we can push the comic back towards the pretty, albeit way over-the-top, ensembles that Katy used to be known for. click on the image or the link for the address. (Be warned, the Archie Comics site looks like Archie Andrews himself designed it. Or possibly Jughead, between bites.)
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