Advertising
A license to kill
Maybe they were hoping to appeal to the serial killer demographic.The ad ran in Playboy magazine, 1964.
The after shave is briefly mentioned in Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, by Elizabeth Fraterrigo:
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 20, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising, Gender, 1960s
Give her the perfect gift — a funeral
Surprise, honey! I pre-arranged your funeral.This first clipping I found circulating online, without any kind of attribution.
After a little searching I found this second ad, which seems similar enough that I assume it's from the same funeral home.
Burlington Free Press - Feb 17, 2013
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 18, 2017 -
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Category: Death, Advertising
Win A Houseboy Contest
In my physical copy of LIFE magazine for December 20, 1963, this ad occupies page 89.In the scanned copy at Google, there is an entirely different ad on page 89. The image you see here is my scan of the paper copy.
I have no explanation for this. Did LIFE print regional issues with different ads?
In any case, I could find no other complete representation of this ad online. (There's a scan of the top part alone, for some reason.)
Thus does WU contribute to the world's stock of knowledge.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 18, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Ethnic Groupings, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #314
I'm just glad this was not an ad for TOILET paper.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 14, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s
Mystery Illustration 45
Which product is exemplified by this illustration?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu May 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Surrealism, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #313
That is one friendly and powerful cereal.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 07, 2017 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1900s
Mystery Illustration 44
What is this woman's domestic sin? Unable to make coffee? Wears curlers to bed? Bad breath?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue May 02, 2017 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1950s
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
Macho Cologne
Introduced by Faberge in 1976. It was described as being "packaged with a startlingly new futuristic look." Which is to say that it was packaged as a giant phallus.I like the ad promoting it as a Father's Day gift. I can just imagine a son or daughter giving this as a present to their dad.
Indianapolis Star - Oct 30, 1976
The Pocono Record - June 17, 1977
The marketing of the cologne must have gained some notoriety. I found a brief discussion of it in an academic study of marketing — Marketing and Semiotics: New Directions in the Study of Signs for Sale (1987):
Update: Thanks to Brian for drawing our attention to Pierre Cardin Man's cologne, which also featured a suggestively shaped bottle.
And I just noticed that the Father's Day ad features both Macho cologne and Pierre Cardin Man's cologne. So if you gave your dad both, what message would you be sending him?
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 26, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Mystery Illustration 43
What hideous problem afflicts this man? Halitosis? B.O.? Blackheads?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 24, 2017 -
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Category: Body, Advertising, 1920s
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