Dress Stores Attempt To Lampoon 'Poon

On Washington St. in Boston, models wearing $30-$50 dresses are being strung up wit nooses and riddled with arrows.

Filene's is lampooning the Lampoon this week by making an advertising gimmick of the magazine's spoof of advertising in its July Mademoiselle parody. Mannequins in death throes are advertising "clothes to be caught dead in"; others wear velvet straps, clam boots and pigeons pinned to the hems in order to deal with "problem knees"; and still others, struck by the "collectors rage," dip into bushels of mice and ensnare themselves in scotch tape and telephone wires.

Lord & Taylor's, on Fifth Ave. in New York City, is showing a similar three-window display this week.

A squat, package laden man saw the bushel basket of mice in Filene's and snapped at his spouse, "That's you all over again. The great collector."

Said a little boy to his mother, after eyeing the be-noosed mannequin, "We're not going in there!"