Fashion
Pre-Dirtied Jeans
Nordstrom is now selling pre-dirtied jeans for $425. And here I've been washing my jeans all these years! It reminds me of that guy back in the 90s who sold shotgun-blasted jeans, though his prices were more reasonable.I wonder if the dirt washes off.
For slightly cheaper ($395) you can get what looks like paint-stained jeans.
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Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 27, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Denim, Overpriced Merchandise
Follies of the Madmen #312
Ah, the hillbilly! What a once-potent icon. Used anywhere these days except Cletus & Family on The Simpsons?
Ad scanned from Playboy for March 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 27, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Mystery Illustration 42
The splendid sartorial sense of this fellow is explicitly deemed by the advertisement to be inducement to trust his taste in another area. What product would you imagine his clothes are justifying. Liquor? Cars? Hairspray?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 13, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Advertising, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #309
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 31, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Nature, 1970s
Smart Socks
"Imagine your phone could communicate with your socks," says the Blacksocks company. But imagine no more, because the company has now created "the smartest men's dress socks in the world." The company admits that, "This is something we dreamed about and we have made the dream come true."
The socks feature a "communication button" that allows the socks to speak to your iPhone. The things your socks might tell your iPhone include:
how often you have washed your socks,
when your socks were produced,
when you ordered your socks and
when your socks were dispatched.
Your iPhone can also tell you if your black socks are no longer properly black and help you buy new socks.
The smartest socks in the world come with a price tag of $189 for 10 pairs. So $18.90 for each pair.
Product page, via Oh Gizmo.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 29, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Inventions
Le Canned Dress
Irwin Silver put a dress in a can, gave it a frenchified name, and then sold these for $25 a pop. This was back in 1966, and it was a marketing gimmick about as cynical as you might guess. Silver was cashing in on the mid-1960s fad for anything canned, and he figured that if people were stupid enough to buy canned air (i.e. an empty can), perhaps they'd also buy a canned dress. Apparently he sold around 100,000 of them.More info from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Dec 14, 1966:
"I was being driven crazy by cans," he says. "Every time I turned around, I seemed to bump into a can. First I saw canned candles, then someone gave me a tin of canned air. I began to wonder why dresses couldn't be put up the same way."...
The fashions produced by Silver's company, Wippette, each weigh 4½ ounces, come packed in gay one-pound cans and are tagged with silver labels designed to look like the top of a can."
Image source: Cabinet magazine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Nov 26, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 28, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, 1960s
Fish Bowl Fashion
Some examples of fish bowls (with live fish) incorporated into fashion:In 1954, Kathleen Radel created fish bowl earrings containing live guppies.
The Pittsburgh Press - Apr 4, 1954
More recently, London fashion designer Cassandra Verity Green included a goldfish handbag in her "Neptune's Daughter" collection of knitwear.
And finally, there's the Japanese artist Eijiro Miyama who's known for riding around on his bicycle wearing, among other things, fish bowl earrings that contain live goldfish.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 26, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Jewelry, 1950s
President Naa Hoo Woo of the USA
What a blatant instance of cultural appropriation!
Original foto here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 26, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Politics, Officials, 1970s, Native Americans
Giant Gown Folds Flat
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 19, 2017 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Fashion, 1960s
Ski masks for chilly cheeks
Almost as bad as styling on the slopes.
Source: Teenagers' Weekly - July 3, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 17, 2017 -
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Category: Fashion, Headgear, 1960s
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