Band-aid Your Empty Lives With These

It’s No Boo-Boo: Bandages as Fashion Accessories
By KAYLEEN SCHAEFER
Published: August 7, 2008, NY Times
Since the adhesive strip has been upgraded by designers or studded with Swarovski crystals, some adults have begun to view it as any other accessory.

So ridiculous that I have to share this from the Thursday funny pages, otherwise known as Thursday Style Section of the NY Times. They wear band-aids for no apparent reason except to be hip. My favorite part's at the end of the article:

Patricia Graf, a designer in Aachen, Germany, wears Mr. Seibert’s designs as a ring, on a foot or under an eye as a sparkly version of a football player’s greasy black stripe. Somebody once offered to buy her bandage from her at a party.

“Gross,” Ms. Graf told this reporter. “It was used.”

As for Mr. Brown, he’s worried his supply is running low (he bought only six boxes, after all) and plans to use them sparingly from now on. New York Fashion Week is just four weeks away, and for that, he said, “I definitely have to be rocking a bandage somewhere visible.”

Can't wait for patients asking for designer bandages in the hospital soon. "Would you like the Swarovski or the Tiffany duoderm on your pressure ulcer?"