Flava

Isn’t it annoying when you have to pull your cell phone out of your pocket to see what time it is? Or when you have to stop random people at the mall to find out the time? I think that’s precisely the reason that clocks come in all places – for your wrist, for your finger (do you remember those ring watches???), for your palm pilot, for your computer, for the wall. I think that’s about it, right?

Wrong.

Flava Flav, rap artist from Public Enemy, established in the late 80s that clocks can be used in more public ways. Neigh, worn in more public ways. See below.

Flava Flav was recently on the third season of The Surreal Life, a show featured has been singers and actors, on VH-1. Now apparently Flava Flav’s appearance on the show brought about a resurrection of the Kitchen Clock as Apparel Movement. At a wedding I attended this past weekend, one of the guests sported a patent leather purse with an operational clock on the side. Now, in answer to your obvious question, this guest was not a young child or teenager. Two pictures of the clock purse are below. One features just the clock and the other a bridesmaid with the clock. You may not notice the clock in the second picture – it’s to the right of the cleavage.