Saturday, October 23, 2010

Modelskip

Do you know the proofreader's worry of "eyeskip"?  It happens when you read a sentence that's missing word, but your eye fills it in automatically.

I experienced a similar phenomenon yesterday while spying the new L. L. Bean Signature catalogue out of the corner of my eye.  From my vantage point, the model on the cover resembled Carolyn Murphy, of early Prada, mid Lauder, and late Tiffany fame.




So when I actually paged through the catalogue, I was still under the illusion that the blonde model was Murphy, until I snapped out of it!




This instance of "modelskip" reminded me of the years when I was convinced that Carmen Kass was the daughter of Carmen dell Orefice.  File these model genealogies under the late, great Spy magazine's Separated at Birth feature.

8 comments:

Mary-Laure said...

Oh I love that first look! I want it!

WendyB said...

I miss Spy.

La Belette Rouge said...

I too love that first look and the dress. You got me wanting to spy LL Bean's new line.

Sister Wolf said...

Did you deliberately leave out the "a" in your post?

Let me just say that I have a nearly complete collection of Spy magazines, hoping someone will offer me $500 for them!

Miss Cavendish said...

Sister--Indeed I did! No eyeskip for you . . .

I wish I could read all those back issues of Spy!

Elizabeth said...

I just thought of Gestalt when I read this.

Brainskip!

Elizabeth said...

fyi, that was me, enc, as Elizabeth. Changing my identity.

Angie Muresan said...

I was so sure it was Carolyn Murphy, as well.