Hygiene
Suction-Cup Bathtub Slipper
Instead of providing safety, these look likely to kill the wearer, as the bather struggles to break the grip of the suction cups.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 02, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Inventions, Patents, 1930s, Feet
Follies of the Madmen #597
An epic crossover! Rosie (of Bounty fame) meets Mr. Whipple (of Charmin notoriety).
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 31, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Advertising, Retailing, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #595
This commercial is mundane and unexceptional--barring one thing.The woman lays her poopy child directly onto one of the Bake Sale tables.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 12, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Advertising, Babies and Toddlers, 1970s
Miss Dial
In 1949, Terry Leah won the title of "Miss Dial" in a contest sponsored by Dial Soap. As far as beauty titles go, this one wasn't that unusual. But what was unusual was that, as part of the responsibility of being Miss Dial, Terry had to take a bath, using Dial Soap, in the window of Eckerd Drug Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.Adding to the public exposure, Dial promised that the person who took the best photo of Terry as she bathed would win $25.
Charlotte News - July 7, 1949
Charlotte Observer - July 8, 1949
Young Dickie Higgins was determined to win that prize. I'd bet that was the most exciting day of his life up until then. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find out who did win the photo prize.
"Dickie Higgins takes a shot of dancer Terry Leah, who is posing in a bubble bath in a Charlotte, North Carolina, store window advertising a new line of bath soap."
NY Journal American - July 28, 1949
(left) Greenville News - July 9, 1949; (right) Raleigh News and Observer - July 14, 1949
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 22, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Hygiene, Photography and Photographers, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #590
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Hygiene, Advertising, 1980s, Europe
Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?
Some discussion of the ad from Paradoxes of Nostalgia by Penny Von Eschen:
It sounds like the ad inspired quite a few parodies, but I was only able to find one:
The ad also provided the name for a 1988 album by the punk rock group The Neurotics:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 16, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, 1930s
Fireball Jungle
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 15, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s, Cars
The Kasa-Obake
One of the weirder Japanese mythological creatures.Wikipedia tells us:
They are generally umbrellas with one eye and jump around with one leg, but sometimes they have two arms or two eyes among other features,[2][6] and they also sometimes are depicted to have a long tongue.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 23, 2024 -
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Category: Hygiene, Asia, Fictional Monsters
Anthropomorphic Fels-Naptha Ads
Fels-Naptha Soap really went big on the living clothing and living soap box concept.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 31, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Domestic, Hygiene, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #584
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 26, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Myths and Fairytales, 1970s
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