So warns this risque vintage postcard (via A Slip Of A Girl). I’m guessing that artist Tony Roy expected lady’s underpants to be worn as hats at some point in the evening… Which only further drives home the point about imbibing too much. So here’s to a happy & safe New Year’s Eve, for you, your panties and your hats.
PS I love that the “i” is upside down in “liquor.”
Photo in My Baby, May 1962. Enuff said, Fred.
CarlosPC has left a new comment on Your Guess Is As Good As Ours:
Without looking for clues in Google I can tell you that this picture was taken circa 1970 in Mexico when a Costa Rican movie producer visited to negotiate the production of a movie with “El Santo” mexican wrestler.
The clipping is from a mexican newspaper called Excelsior (I can tell from the typography).
People are still talking at/about our previous kitschy posts, despite the inability for comments to be published, but with Comment Ketchup, we try to keep the extra zest.
Anonymous at Well, At Least The Cat’s Eyes Are Closed:
I think the little petes stickers was from my grandfathers old pottery shop and I think the tail for the puppy used to be air freshener or something. I will ask my mom for sure.
Normally for “And Some Sort Of A Hat” posts I prefer actual photos, but this series by Vera Brosgol is too charming to exclude. (You might also want to see my post about vintage bird hats at my other blog.)
I wanted to get this huge vintage masked doll to scare my sister with. (She has a fear of dolls and I wanted to sneak it into her bed, pull the comforter up over it and let her find it long after I left the house — don’t worry, I’d be sure to hear her reaction lol)
But sadly, it was not meant to be…
The doll was placed up for auction along with the old metal riding toy tractor, and in Fargo-Moorhead, those old farm toys and pedal cars sell for waayyyy too much for me to even raise my bidding paddle. Maybe next time, the 3-foot old cloth doll will be mine — err, my sisters. *sigh*
Verabee says these big-eyed kitshy beauties are Russian nevalashkas, “traditional baby-shutting-up toy. They make a very soothing clinking noise.”
Maybe the linens and carpet have (I still wouldn’t use a black light!), but the furniture hasn’t really changed since John Van Koert designed the InnMaster I for Simmons:
Vintage ad via Spuzzlightyeartoo; more on Van Koert designs here.
Because Blogger no longer allows you to host your own blog, Kitschy Kitschy Coo made the switch to WordPress in April of 2010, as a result any comments posted at the old blogger archives do not actually get posted — but people are still talking at/about our previous kitschy posts.
Like Betty, who left a batch of comments at the end of November; the emailed notices of which were stuffed in my spam. Arg! Betty, I feel so badly that I cannot contact you or publish your comments where they belong, so I’m going to hook you up here.
(The rest of you, just consider these your holiday leftovers to enjoy.)
Betty left the following comment at Thirteen Kitschy Christmas Crafty Things:
What! They didn’t coordinate the hairspray can with the toothbrush sleeve in leopard print?? My parents owned a craft shop in the 60s and even in the 60s some of these crafts were hard to swallow. Folks also loved to decopage and bejewel those wooden purses! Whooo hoooo 60s. PS. I’m doin some serious thinkin about that colored water in jars castle and if its the last thing I do this Christmas I AM making a foil angel for the table! Thank you so much. What a fun site you have. Betty
At Thirteen More Bits 0 Paper Scans:
The snowball fort and war was priceless. Adding the poem and this must go up on my wall somewhere.
With the exception of warmer parts of the US, hasn’t everyone had at least one snowball fort fight as a kid? It usually meant snow down the neck of our underdesigned outerwear, cold wet feet, and the unfortunate icy snowball in the face, glasses and all. Livin in TX today. Maybe, maybe it’ll snow again this year. Please, please, please.
Aluminum tree, covered chair, plastic drapery. Keeping it clean for baby Jesus (under the tree.)
I have that Santa Claus. I could live without the dangling greens but I would so love to have the signage!!! Betty
At Thanks For The Reindeer Sweater:
This sweater is flat out fabulous!
This sweater ROCKS!! And, it happens to look extremely good on the model. I’d buy it and if it didn’t fit…I’d frame it. Very, very cool. Betty
