Usually I consider myself pretty well read. I don’t read every article in every section of CNN.com or USAToday.com,, but still I usually know enough about what’s going on in the world as to not embarrass myself.
Still, when I saw a link to this on the front page of USA Today, I was surprised.
Lady GaGa wearing a dress made of raw meat. (It takes a lot to upstage Cher, but I think she pulled it off.)
I’m up for trying new things, I am. I had a dress made from paper in the mid 60′s. It had a pixelated photo of a giant eye printed on it in B&W and had velcro tabs at the shoulders. It was very cool. I was bummed when it could no longer be worn. I wish now I at least would’ve gotten a photo of it. Ah, but when you’re 17, you think things will be around forever. Who knew? 
Ah, but I digress…
I’ve seen bikinis made of broccoli and even dresses made of chocolate. (That was in a Food Network challenge.) But a dress made of meat? Now this is a first for me.
Just the thought of a meat dress makes me very uneasy. Over the past couple of years I’ve been inching towards vegetarianism. Our daughter Amanda, who her brother called a “meatasorus” at one time, became one almost 10 years ago now. Needless to say, when she went that way, we were bombarded with all sorts of PETA produced brochures. I was uninterested at the time. However, over the years my personal views have been changing. I’m now to the point where I can’t even cut up a raw chicken; and the faux meat products have gotten a lot better.
Right now though I still prefer to think that meat just comes in those little packages at the store and had no life of it’s own before. (I know, the whole head in the sand thing.) Please do not send me literature on the subject.
Anyway, because of my morphing views, it bothered me to see sheets of meat just hanging on her. Ewwww. It looks too much like an animal, which of course it was at one time.
There’s a plethora of other bothersome issues as well. How was it put together? Did they perhaps have to somehow affix pieces to her? How could you go to the bathroom? What if you sat down? Yuck! I’ve never actually sat on meat, although I’m sure that there are some people, somewhere, that get off on it. I’ve heard of people who just love to get naked and sit on squishy things, like birthday cake. (What a waste of a cake!)
Ah, digressing again… sorry, back to the subject.
I’ve never been on stage; but I’ve heard it’s hot under all those lights. As far as I know, meat is supposed to be refrigerated. Therefore wouldn’t wearing thin sheets of meat (which would heat up quicker than thicker pieces) onstage be contraindicated? Unrefrigerated meat can go bad pretty quickly. Remember that unfortunate incident on an airplane recently? If I was wearing a meat dress and that happened to me, there wouldn’t be enough Haldol in the world to sedate me.
If I walked into my house where 5 dogs are always waiting for me, wearing a meat dress I’m not exactly sure just what would happen but I’ve got a good idea. It wouldn’t be pretty. Our pack wouldn’t mean to hurt me of course, but somehow I think I just might wind up with a nip or two. I’m pretty sure there’d be a feeding frenzy. Of course, it might be a good way to lose those bothersome bulges on my upper thighs.
Lady Gaga even had meat cuffs around her ankles. Gizmo and Little Bit would be so pleased, being the little ankle biters that they are.
When I first saw this today, it reminded me of a Seinfeld episode.
Sorry about the lighting at the end, she’s on a NYC street at night.
So, have you worn a paper dress, a meat dress or perhaps even something more cutting edge? Tell me.

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i use a combo of shea butter and aloe vera moisturizer. Works great. I use shea butter on my lips, around my eyes and nose (dry areas), My father swears by vasoline.
p.s. I dropped your name on Gina's post, Barb. ;)
M, Like mutton, if cooked right and no tricky clothes, sorry!…TRACK
No tricky clothes? I’m not even sure what that means Miss Track.
I suspect a connection between Lady Gaga’s Vogue cover dress and the art work titled Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic by Montreal artist Jana Sterbak and acquired by the National Gallery of Canada back in 1991. Gaga’s a bit young and American to remember the (literal) stink about this meat dress. But the behind-the-scenes people at Vogue are certainly aware of it.
From the National Gallery’s website:
“In the weeks following the installation, 200 people mail food scraps to the Gallery to protest the work, which Sterbak says deals with issues of power, sexuality and control. When the dress decomposes after six weeks, it is replaced with another $300 worth of raw meat, which Gallery staff were trained to piece together.”
It’s actually quite a powerful statement about women regarded as “meat” and so appropriate for self-professed fame-whore Lady Gaga (especially the title –Vanitas…).
Would I wear it? Not a chance. But I could say that about almost everything Lady Gaga wears (and I’ve been considering all her various looks for Halloween). With enough daiquiris I might be persuded into a Jean-Paul Gaultier bullet bra corset a la Madonna. But I draw the line at pyrotechnics erupting from my chest.
Killjoy. LOL!