{"id":2679,"date":"2015-02-13T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2023-12-07T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:02:45","slug":"cecil-the-mannequin-in-the-phonebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/cecil-the-mannequin-in-the-phonebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil: The Mannequin in the Phone box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Valentino&#8217;s Displays<\/a> are pretty sure we have seen this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/flesh-tone-male-mannequin-hands-at-side-head-facing-forwards-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mannequin display<\/a> before but not in a phonebox! We usually sell him in a cardboard box! This flesh-tone male mannequin in Weston has caused a stir on social media by its unusual display and the various costumes this fibreglass mannequin is dressed in! Not to mention the fact that he is standing in a telephone box in a garden.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His name is Cecil, and he was put into a telephone box in a front garden by his owners Jayne Corrigan and her partner Martin Townley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI hope he brightens people\u2019s days.\u201d Cecil the Mannequin torso also has his own dedicated Facebook page called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Cecil-the-dude-in-the-Phonebox-526804327458597\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cecil The Dude In The Phonebox<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Cecil-the-dude-in-the-Phonebox\/526804327458597\">. <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jayne is accepting donations of costumes and can be contacted via the Facebook page. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This reminds us of a blog post we did back in May 2014 about a lady called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/14-years-living-with-a-mannequin-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suzanne Heintz and her story of her artificial mannequin family<\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do you think of this male mannequin display?? Not quite the shop window display we are used to seeing but I suppose it&#8217;s unique, eye-catching and people are talking about it so it&#8217;s working!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2682 size-full\" title=\"Cecil Mannequin with Owner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cecil-Mannequin-With-Owner.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Mannequin with Owner\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cecil-Mannequin-With-Owner.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cecil-Mannequin-With-Owner-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Cecil-Mannequin-With-Owner-600x425.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-image-caption\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mannequin in a Phonebox, Jayne Corrigan &#8211; credit<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">thewestonmercury.co.uk<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Valentino&#8217;s Displays are pretty sure we have seen this mannequin display before but not in a phonebox! We usually sell him in a cardboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61264,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/61264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentinosdisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}