I always hated these theme hats but ever since I’ve had my Kitsch O’ The Day blog I’ve found one that’s dumber than the next and that seems to serve the cause of Kitsch well. In the case of this particular Christmas tree chapeau, I hope that most people who don it bought it for themselves as opposed to getting it from under the real tree as it lives up to excessively few of its claims.  For example, the label definitely leads one to believe that the star on top lights up and stands erect as any good tree topper should:

In real life, the star flops over like a dead fish.

Although it might look like the star is lit in that last photo it’s just that I shot it in too bright of light. In fact, the wire connected to the star is clearly not connected to the battery terminal.

Inside the hat, the battery case flops around on your head like another dead fish. Should you attempt to adjust the sized-for-a-child-and-grips-your-head-like-a-vice hat on your now bruised head, the battery case flops out like the ornament that’s always too ugly to put on the tree.

So far my cat, Niblet, has hacked up six bunches of tinsel that have fallen off the tree hat. If you even look at this thing it sheds.

All in all,I think it might be less frustrating to wear a real tree on my head. I hope Fun World Div., Easter Unlimited, Inc. of Carle Place, NY by way of China is making a New Years resolution to take better care of their trees before extracting $30 for the malfunctioning stump that sits atop my head this Christmas!

2 Responses to “Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Grinch Who Made This Christmas Tree Hat”

  1. Robert

    Well I had to look up the definition of Kitsch, a word I have heard but not often enough to remember what it is. I see kitsch “is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value.”

    Now I can see you do a wonderful jobs finding and displaying these items on your web site. Keep up the good work. 🙂

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    • Allee

      The definition of kitsch here at AWMOK is a little broader than that to include things that became all pervasive in pop culture as well as the people and products that imitated that success but in often inferior forms.

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