After a week in heels and rigid work clothes, my weekend attire often includes yoga pants. These are my favourites: skulls in a paisley-style, reminiscent of a Mexican 'dia de los muertos' motif. Skulls have been making it big these days. No longer relegated to Halloween, you can easily find skull and crossbones onesies for babies and kids clothing with cutsie-skulls laden with "love, peace, cool, awesome, BFF!" I don't get it. Skulls used to be edgy, and now they are mainstream.
But the key here is that they are only really mainstream acceptable if really not associated with death at all. Pink and frilly, paisley or designed in leopard print... a skull wearing a bow? Adorable and acceptable!
I heard a funny story the other evening from a photographer who often does shoots for the institution I work for. He was hired to do pictures for one of the Faculties, and ended up doing a few featured pictures for each department. The Department of Anthropology decided they would like a student featured along with an artifact. Apparently the student wanted to be featured holding a skull, but it was decided this would not be appropriate. Not appropriate!
So there we have it, society is ok with baby onesies featuring skulls, but academic institutions photographing students and scenes representative of anthropological studies simply cannot include a skull.
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