Made Me Smile ...

[amandainvermont]

... for very different reasons.


I smiled at this Dolce and Gabanna outfit for fall-winter 2010 - fun!

And completely unrelated, but I stumbled across this while researching vintage baby clothes. I am amused by the warning on the sides of the five gallon buckets I use for the greenhouse business. They say something like - “Do not fill with water and stick your head into the water for long periods of time.” And this ad is SO wrong.

Here’s another ad from 1957. The microsheen was advertised as so shiny you could see reflections in it - so standing near a gal in her skirt, you could see up the skirt I gather.

 

[boncly]

LOL Amanda! The microsheen ad reminds me of the pin ups of the 40s!

Some are VERY suggestive, yet show nothing.

Diana

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

that winter model is aMAzing!!!

and you're right, the baby ad? sooooo wrong. yikes!

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

That boot polish one is a scream. The baby ad is definitely weird!

 

[lkranieri]

Oh to have a body that could wear something like that sweater/ski thing...

And I think I gasped when I saw the babies-in-cellophane and laughed out loud at the reflecting shoe. Maybe it was an urban legend that flew around Catholic schools, but I heard ominous warnings not to wear black patent leather shoes for that reason.

 

[TinTrunk]

That D&G outfit is rather sweet, but you'd certainly need a model's figure to carry it off!

And those ads are priceless! Cellophane-wrapped babies and dodgy voyeuristic shiny shoes, oh dear!

Btw - I can't see how that lady is keeping her stockings up, unless her hands are hiding the suspender straps.

Thanks for the laughs, Amanda!

Sarah

 

[wire9vintage]

I immediately thought of the infamous dry-cleaning bag scene in Mad Men (season 1). Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!

But I am still puzzling over exactly what the message is in that shoe polish ad. Wow...

 

[Midge]

I said goodbye to one-piece skisuits years ago... but of course they never looked as good as this D&G one! But I doubt I'd want to display my hips in that one :lol: .

Those ads really are too much! I vintage ads! I have a page full of ads from a 1920 magazine on my kitchen wall, and a rather funny coke ad, and my calendar this year is one with American ads from the 50s. There are three reasons why I buy vintage magazines - either fabulous fashions, fab sewing patterns or fab ads (best of course is all three rolled into one :lol: ).

The cello ad is really weird - and the other one - can't really see the sense of it either :scratchchin: . But I'd love to have her shoes!

Karin