helen birch

now that is creepy! No wonder kids grow up afraid of clowns.

Is this from the Winter Wonderland fair at Hyde Park? Great shot Nelly!

A window display at Selfridges in Manchaster

This is actually nothing to do with clowns, but part of a Christmas tradition in the UK called pantomime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime. This character is what we'd call the 'panto dame', a resident individual in most of these theatre productions, and usually played by a man dressed as a parody of a woman

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