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Tag: retro
Be Careful What You Wish For
Weeks later, I get a surprise in my auction lot box: a giant spoon and fork.
How can a giant set of utensils surprise someone? Let me count the ways…
#1 by being at the very bottom of the box;
#2 by not being made of wood (they’re plaster with faux wood grain painting).
You’d that this would only further thrill this lover of kitsch, but…
In this case 1 + 2 = the previously repaired (glued) pieces were damaged too much to actually hang on the wall. And heaven knows I can’t afford any horizontal space to store them on.
Not Even Sophia Loren Can Sex Them Up
Hubby and I always joke that one day we’ll collect the giant forks and spoons that hang on the walls… It was such a kitschy fad! Not even Sophia can sex up this kitsch. Via.
Old Bologna You Wouldn’t Have Eaten Even When It Was Just Made
What a line of bologna! From EMSA, West Germany, a line of kitsch plastic kitchenalia or picnic ware.
All images, and sales, via RaggleTaggleHawker.
“Can’t Stand Still Pants”
That’s Pan’s People movin’ and groovin’, selling pants in the 1969 issue of Petticoat magazine.
For Closeted Crafters?
Macrame Hangers For Small Spaces, circa 1975.
Mod Avenger Fashions
Diana Rigg & The Emmapeeler
Here’s that Avenger girl, Dina Rigg, in the grooviest jumpsuit on your TV screen. Called the “Emmapeeler” — after the character she plays — it comes in eight colors and is made of a stretch fabric called Crimplene. T.B. Jones Ltd. of London is the manufacturer.
Those giant “Avenger” watches that Diana wears with her jumpsuits also are a British import. They come in various colors and straps, and this spring they started to appear in stores throughout the U.S. They are by Old England
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Images via; there’s no mention of what publication was scanned, however, I’m rather certain the pages came from the June 10-16, 1967 issue of TV Guide (#741).
Old England is, again, making watches. More on the vintage Old England watches can be found here. And more information on Avenger fashions can be found here.
What Mondays Feel Like
No Hippie Chicks?
A mod space age design dress by Pierre Cardin for Bonwit Teller with flying saucers on the hips. You know, in case you need to round-out your figure, or flag down a ride from an alien.
To Boldly Go Where Aliens Have Already Been
We can thank New Wave Science Fiction and its experimental “what if” nature of soft science for everything from Star Trek (and so fake Spock toys) to works which emphasized “hypothesis” of ancient human-extraterrestrial contact. It’s the last group, the sensationalized books which are the fodder of Roswell conspiracists, which seem to find me. Like this stack of retro paperbacks. Hey, Star Trek may have been the most accurate in terms of technological predictions; but Chariots Of The Gods has given us all Ancient Aliens on the History Channel. Yeah, that’s not much of a defense. But a few of them might be kind of fun to read… Or not. I can’t promise anything in any direction.
