Squirrel fashions (a blast from the past)
 

For my Syracuse Triad cousins - squirrely fashions!

“Most squirrels,” LIFE noted (with a striking lack of evidence), “are lively and inquisitive animals who like to do tricks when they have an audience.” They do? At any rate, LIFE went on to observe that the squirrel, dubbed Tommy Tucker by the Bullis family, “is a very subdued little animal who has never had a chance to jump around in a big tree.”
“Mrs. Bullis’ main interest in Tommy,” LIFE continued, “is in dressing him up in 30 specially made costumes. Tommy has a coat and hat for going to market, a silk pleated dress for company, a Red Cross uniform for visiting the hospital.”

Love that - the third picture in that series was at one point my facebook profile picture :)

How in the world did the get the squirrel to pose and stand still?! I can't get my cat to do that.

(lane swerve for answer) The same way cats cutely pose for calendars...my sister told me this because she worked for a calendar photographer one summer...they aren't (gulp) with us anymore.

(end lane swerve)