Ha! I’d do it for $5000, but DH would refuse to go out with me. I’d have to get my best friend, who’s usually up for any challenge, although she might request a cut of the money. DDDDD

I’d do it for $500, but I’m a grad student so a) that’s a lot of money to me, b) I don’t have a real job so who cares anyway, and c) I live in Boston near an art college, so I’d nearly blend in….

Ha! That looks like a losing outfit on Project Runway. Being in NYC for so long means wacky outfits and crazy/bad fashion choices are part of everyday life. I would do it for $1000. Maybe even $500 so I could get those SW boots

Can it be supplemented with layers or are we playing hardball?

I’d probably do it for a couple thousand.. enough to have a pretty nice little shopping spree as a prize. Even more would be better. I could use a new car

I would be in the $5000 – $10,000 range – just not worth any less than $5,000. I’d want to be able to forget the whole ordeal using some retail therapy to erase the memory of having sported something so incredibly hideous.

I do think I’d skip the fancy dinner and go straight to funky night club where I’d blend in a bit more (maybe). That ensemble is just not fit to sit in a fancy restaurant.

Even the model looks unhappy to be wearing such horrible creation. I wonder how much they had to pay her to put it on?!?!

Hmmm, would I have to share my price money with the other people at the restaurant who have to look at me? It might ruin their appetize to see me with that waist/belly cutout.

This is such a funny post! It would only take about $2,000, not because I wouldn’t wear this, but because I’d like that amount to supplement my savings!

Ha, I love the fabric breakdown!

“Fabric 1: 100% polyester
Fabric 2: 82% nylon, 18% spandex
Fabric 3: 97% polyester, 3% elastane”

Now I have to amend my comment: You would have to pay me significantly more to sport this polyester piece of hell in the summer.

I’m just guessing I could go to just about any bar in San Francisco and nobody would bat an eye.

I think the price would only be in the what pain and suffering could I eliminate by wearing it – for example, “if you wear this outfit, the cure for cancer will come out tomorrow.” Then I would wear it. No amount of money would be enough.

Oh no you could not pay me enough to embrass myself like that.

“chuckle” @ all of you.

Absolutely no layering! But an extra glass of wine is welcome.

Btw, Greg thinks I’d do it for a thousand bucks.

I’d do it for the going price of liposuction, and it would have to be paid well in advance. ;o)

I’d do it for $1,000.00 Heck, although I think its hideous, I’d probably do it for $500.00. That’s more of a testament to being so dead broke that I’m about to lose everything though, and the fact that I don’t care if other people think I’m completely nuts.

All that being said, yes, it is atrocious. I can’t even come up with enough words to describe the cluster… um… yeah, its bad.

It is hideous! I will be a lot higher than $10,000 for me. I can’t even price it.

Maya: I love the fabric breakdown.

Probably 5,000 but I think it would also have to be in a city where I don’t know anyone. I don’t know that I could do it and bear to run into someone I know especially anyone I work with!

Greg knows his wife all too well. Sure you have standards now, but when someone’s waving $1,000 in cold, hard cash at you?

I need details on how long you need to wear this and as Maya pointed out, the temperature and humidity!

It would be hilarious to wear this to pick up the kids from school.

Before I was willing to commit to a price, I felt I needed a description. I turned to Corey for help and got the following responses:
1. It looks like a dismembered zebra
2. It’s not something a human would wear.
3. I could see it with klingon makeup or maybe out of Avatar.

He attempted to describe it to me in more detail…something about nearly flesh-coloured background with seemingly random swirls of black and white and a nearly bear leg?

I’d go for $10,000 to be seen in the outfit if it was made in my size, $20,000 to squeeze into the largest size available, which certainly wouldn’t fit me.
Corey’s price for being seen in public with me while wearing it? Fifty grand.

Um, can I wear Spanx?

A million dollars, but I’d have to be able to drive out of the Tri-city area to where nobody knows me.

Whatever price will cover all the therapy I would need after wearing this outfit.

€20,000 but I would have to be really *really* drunk… Sober, no way!

haha, given my income, probably about $1000, though I could probably be talked lower if need be (and I could say it was a sociological experiment if anyone asked!)

Seriously, I am with Chewy : $ 1- $2 mill ( I would have to hide for life after ).

I’d do it for $1000, probably even $500. I wouldn’t be paying for that outfit, right? I would borrow a whip from somewhere to accessorize. (And since it’s called a cat suit, I really really really would want to wear a black mask and a headband with two black ears on it and channel Michelle Pfeiffer as best I could.) I would look pretty scary though, since I don’t have the proper bra for it.

Still thinking about this one (guess I really like to distract myself from work today!).

I have to say that I can actually imagine more hideous outfits – although it also depends on body type. On me this would certainly be extremely hideous, but I can imagine it being tolerable on a tall skinny gal half my age with long hair and more of a clubber style. I’d notice her if she walked past me on the street, secretly roll my eyes, but not really dwell on it that much.

And I am with a couple of previus comments that alluded to the importance of context. If I went to a night club in NYC, I’d sport this if you paid me $500, no problem. However, there is not a single restaurant in Seattle where I could imagine not getting stared at in this outfit (at least as a woman — now a drag queen wearing it to a Capitol Hill restaurant is of course a whole other story altogether and would go unnoticed), so the price goes up considerably!

I would totally do this for a few thousand. Anything above say $2000. And I would have FUN with it! Dramatic hair, red accessories, and work up some attitude to match!

You’d have to have the right attitude though (i.e. not reveal you know you look hideous). I definitely feel a lot of looking good comes with the confidence and attitude you show.

I reckon I could pull it off and come out looking daring rather than dire! (I’m a good actress ;-P)

If I could keep it, I’d do it for free. I think it’s hilarious and would love to wear this back in the Quarter! Here in HK, perhaps for LKF.

I just had an idea – I would wear it for Halloween, even in a place where people knew me!

I’d do it for $2000 to spend in NY this November … It is truly hideous, though!

I’m not super motivated by money so it would have to be ALOT. Enough to pay my student loans for a year, or enough for a car, or enough for a down payment. When I was a tween I would have loved this though for a dance recital costume.

$1,000? After taxes? Definitely. I might even do it for $800. I am not only poor, I am also not easily humiliated!

I’d totally do it for $500 or more. I need money more than pride. LOL. In my everyday life though… that would be interesting, since my job is church secretary. I guess I’d have to do it on a non-work day. Hehe.

$6000. Does this really flatter any body type?

Sihaya, no costume parties – said so at the start of the post

yowza! definitely leaves nothing to the imagination!

i’d be embarrassed to wear it out of the dressing room.

I think I’d do it for $3,000. Wow, that’s bizarre. Does there come a point where everything’s been done, so out of desperation designers do strange things just to be original? The model did a decent job of keeping a neutral face.

Ha! My husband said he would wear it for $1000!

Well, since it would be humiliating from a taste/judgement standpoint, and would look *terrible* on me, my price would be pretty high.

I’d do it for $10k if I only had to be seen in it for half an hour, and there was no photographic evidence.

If those aren’t the terms, my price would be closer to $30k.

I’m always in for a bit of experimentation, and here in nyc I doubt I’d even get a second glance.
Probably $500, though to be fair I’d also wear it out grocery shopping for free just for shits and giggles.

I would wear it in another state for ummmmm…..$1,000. With lots of makeup after having several cocktails or glasses of wine.

Hmmm, maybe $5000. The funny thing is that it actually has alot of coverage (though sheer). It just looks like a gigantic body stocking that’s been decorated by a kindergartener!

I promise I’m not inebriated or high on anything as I type this – I’d do it for about 1,000. It’s so awful I can’t even get seriously upset by it. I can’t take it seriously, and I wouldn’t take myself seriously if I wore it. It would feel like a costume. It makes me crack up thinking about wearing this to my local hippie grocery store or to a high end restaurant. I think in my town few people would bat an eye.

Unfortunately it’s not a very interesting outfit – I can think of more exciting and worthwhile costumey shapes. So it would feel wasteful to go to all the trouble.

And I definitely wouldn’t go out alone.

I’d do it for $500, but I’d really fear for my job!

I would like to say £5,000 but I know come the time I would do it for the price of the winter gas bill *feeling shame and a little cheap*.

Ooo how Ziggy Stardust! I would like to say I would rise above such a challenge but when the winter fuel bill plops on the door mat I know I would do it for that amount even in the sub zero temps *feeling a little ashamed and very cheap*

Michelle – I am laughing over Corey’s descriptions!

Oh, this has been so fun reading everyone’s comments!

You can’t pay me enough…no way!

oh.. God!

That looks like a costume! Awful!

I would do it for 5000€.. 5000€ to spend on beautiful clothes and a gorgeous bag would compensate the shame!

I’d do it for $15000.nothing less than that!

I’d wear it to a Lady Gaga concert – for a very high price.

Angie – Greg may think you would do it for $1,000 – but what would he do it for?

I’d need a rather large donation to charity before contemplating wearing this and several thousand for myself to go shopping with after! x

I’d definitely wear it for a $1000 and have dinner at one of the restaurants near Century Village to give the snow birds something to talk about. It’s really hideous though! Looks like a design school project.

i remain fascinated by this…

it’s like disco star trek…something seven would wear and not understand why men were staring.

I’d love to say that I’d wear it just to embarrass my mom for a change but I don’t know if I’d be able to walk out of the house, heck out of my closet for less than a grand. How much does the outfit retail for? The bizarre always seem to be crazy expensive so I’ll talk the cost of the garment as my final offer!

Ooh FiestyWife, I believe you just signed on for $214. Mental discomfort aside, can you imagine the physical discomfort a polyester catsuit would cause?

What a fun read

Debora and Michelle, you get my vote for most hilarious comment.

The breasts and bum are fully covered, so why not? I’d don it for a grand…although I hope I wouldn’t run into the other 572 people who “liked” this on the ASOS page…now THAT would be embarrassing!

Sorry, not for sale.

It’s modest, but I don’t want to experience embarrasment.

This is the most hilarious commentary I read in a blog post! Maybe we could hit the evening news if we all wore it together.

I just got a chance to look at the ASOS site and saw the other styles on the same brand. Slightly less embarrassing, but definitely requires an acquired taste for bizarre.

Michelle, love Corey. Too funny!!

I need some money right now for something, so I’d do it for $10,000.

I definitely would have gotten a kick out of wearing this…. in my 20′s, early 30′s.
Impossible now because of greater age and greater wisdom than wanting to “shout”
Look at meeeee!

I just keep coming back to this and imagining the rear-view on me. So not good. Putting a price on this is hard. I think $10,000 would be a go, and $5,000 would give me serious pause. Less than that and I just don’t know. The idea of being seen in this thing makes me physically shudder. Funny, I didn’t know it was that important to me. In a disco it would be pretty easy to wear, but in any other situation. ugh.

Hmm. If someone promised to pay off all my credit card debt, I’d go for it.

Hmm, perhaps being 18 and living in New Orleans makes me a bit reckless, but I’d do it for $100.00. Then again, that might just be because I’m a poor college student, lol.

The sight of it hurts my eyes… but since I wouldn’t have to see it once I put it on, I’d do it for a thousand bucks.

I’d do it for way less than $500, just for a lark, if I could pick the occasion and keep it afterwards. This would convert into a cute pair of asymmetrical sequined shorts. I’d even do it in my own current city on a night that’s not Halloween. Someone had the great suggestion of a Lady Gaga concert. I’d wear this to the concert if I and my friends got in free.

If I wore this with a sign saying: “give me a buck if you want me to get dressed” I might actually wear it and make much more than what I could name

A Lady Gaga concert… oh, yes, classic!

$100 if I could wear big sunglasses and a wig. $500 without. Lol

What a fun post!!! reading it I realized that money is less important than I´ve always thought…..

LOL Michelle, Corey is too funny!

It would take at least $5k for me to get in this, it would probably require a glass of wine as well, and going somewhere fairly far so that I don’t by any chance risk running into someone from work and ruin my serious scientist reputation forever

$215! That’s it!!! *crying*

i would do it for free, granted i could alter the shoulder thing and roll up sleeves. +accessorize.

would definitely wear some huge, huge platforms+thick heel with that that tho. would prob look awesome! i don’t mind this so much at all except for the shoulder.

the more i see this, the more i want to buy it (but def minimize the shoulder)

i mean, i wear a coconut bra in public. maybe in LA people are just crazier with fashion?
i’m way into ice skating/gymnastics clothes this year. fun!

I’d do it for free (and if someone paid for it, haha)! It’s a fun outfit, and I honestly think it would look great on me.