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Jess, manageress of the dress shop couldn’t believe her eyes when she arrived to open up the other morning.
She always took great pride in her window displays. The immaculately attired mannequins gazed at passers by in the most alluring fashion, tempting them to step inside and lose themselves amid the multitude of glorious garments on offer.
However, things looked very different. The shop window was empty but for some frocks, fascinators and scarves scattered upon the floor. Her models had gone missing.
The townsfolk had never seen anything like it. The square was crowded with naked mannequins.
Some had travelled miles to join what was to be their first protest gathering. Hundreds of them had decided it was time to start being treated with the respect and dignity they felt they deserved. After all, were it not for them, clothes shops across the nation would struggle to draw customers through their doors.
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Jess awoke with a start. She’d been dreaming and what a dream it had been! She lay there thinking for a while. Perhaps it was time she started to treat her mannequins as if they were members of her family, after all, she couldn’t manage without them and they did far more for her than did her sons and daughters!
A couple of hours later she arrived at the shop looking forward to another profitable day’s trading. She looked through the window and smiled at the mannequins…and they smiled back!
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I took this photo a while ago outside a second-hand shop in my street. I knew it would come in useful one day!
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Thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E.Ayr for hosting The Unicorn Challenge
© Ayr/Gray
wow, there you go! the perfect match for your story!
It was just a matter of time!
Good take Keith
I’m pleased you found it so, thank you, Sadje
I knew you were a window peeper from that photo you took.
I could show you a thing or two!
I think I’ll pass the offer.
Uh oh. maybe it is time to rethink that day drinking idea. Loved it!
You may have a point! I’ll think about it!
Fabulous photo, Keith.
And delightful take on the prompt – smiling away here.
Delighted to have amused you, Jenne!
Great take on the prompt Keith. Clever to include that photo of yours too!
Thanks Di, I’m glad I hung on to it!
Oh gosh, good one, Keith. But, I have to say those mannequins make me a bit scared. Something about the Doctor (Who), many, many years ago. Do you remember that one?
For several days I had to walk past then – that really was spooky.
Now you come to mention it – yes!
Free Mary Mannequin! Mannequins are people too! They also serve who only stand and drape!
Your usual delightful window dressing, Keith.
Of course they are. Okay, they’ve had a bit of plastic surgery but it doesn’t make then unreal! I almost purchased one of that lot, single bloke living alone etc, but I thought visitors might find it, well, weird. So I didn’t.
You’re most welcome
Very nicely done!
Thanks, Mimi.
This is excellent, dear Keith, made even more enjoyable by the addition of your own pic. Perfect!