{"id":4795,"date":"2009-07-29T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2009-07-29T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T18:19:51","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-lovin-soft-skin-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-lovin-soft-skin-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Lovin&#8217; \u2018More Healthy More Beauty\u2019 Soft Skin Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4949\" title=\"Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel-cut_1303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel-cut_1303.jpg\" alt=\"Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel-cut_1303\" width=\"277\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel-cut_1303.jpg 277w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel-cut_1303-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>\n<p>I love this packaging so much that if I ever chose to actually use this thing I&#8217;d scrub myself with the plastic on. The Photoshoped suds with the totally artificial drip pattern, the&nbsp;Disco-y lettering of Lovin&#8217;, the pink of the towel against the bleached pink of the skin &#8211; all kwintessential Kitsch aspects of this &#8220;More Healthy More Beauty&#8221; body scrubber.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4955\" title=\"lovin-towel_7637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_76371.jpg\" alt=\"lovin-towel_7637\" width=\"338\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_76371.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_76371-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>The translations on the back, though not as off as I Lovin them to be, still suffer from bad punktuation, grammar and spelling. For example, the towel helps &#8220;bad circularion&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4953\" title=\"lovin-towel_7639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_7639.jpg\" alt=\"lovin-towel_7639\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_7639.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lovin-towel_7639-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<p>The mesh towel inside looks pretty rough &#8211; I don&#8217;t dare ruin the packaging to confirm &#8211; altho not of the strength of a loofah which it&#8217;s clearly patterned after.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also love the simplicity of the directions: &#8220;To avoid soap suds from rinsing away, keep Lovin&#8217; towel away from the direct flow of water.&#8221; Anyone who doesn&#8217;t know that before they use the towel doesn&#8217;t deserve to be scrubbin&#8217; with the Lovin&#8217; in the first place.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4959\" title=\"Lovin--Soft-Skin-Towel_1305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel_1305.jpg\" alt=\"Lovin--Soft-Skin-Towel_1305\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel_1305.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lovin-Soft-Skin-Towel_1305-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">I love this packaging so much that if I ever chose to actually use this thing I&#8217;d scrub myself with the plastic on. The Photoshoped suds with the totally artificial drip pattern and same yellow hue as the towel, the Disco-y lettering of Lovin&#8217;, the pink of the towel against the bleached pink of the skin &#8211; all kwintessential Kitsch aspects of this &#8220;More Healthy More Beauty&#8221; body scrubber.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">The translations on the back, though not as off as I Lovin them to be, still suffer from bad punktuation, grammar and spelling. For example, the towel helps &#8220;bad circularion&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">The mesh towel inside looks pretty rough &#8211; I don&#8217;t dare ruin the packaging to confirm &#8211; altho not of the strength of a loofah which it&#8217;s clearly patterned after.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">I also love the simplicity of the directions: &#8220;To avoid soap suds from rinsing away, keep Lovin&#8217; towel away from the direct flow of water.&#8221; Anyone who doesn&#8217;t know that before they use the towel doesn&#8217;t deserve to be scrubbin&#8217; with the Lovin&#8217; in the first place.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this packaging so much that if I ever chose to actually use this thing I&#8217;d scrub myself with the plastic on. The Photoshoped suds with the totally artificial drip pattern, the&nbsp;Disco-y lettering of Lovin&#8217;, the pink of the towel against the bleached pink of the skin &#8211; all kwintessential Kitsch aspects of this &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-lovin-soft-skin-towel\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,241,87,193,81],"tags":[61,3232,3245,479],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-translations","category-health-beauty","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-products","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-lovin-towel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}