Phone Number Sweater

Give every weird pervert in the world your phone number. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

Carlisle Evening Sentinel - Sep 30, 1971

Melanie Myers, a Los Angeles secretary, wears the latest fad — a made-to-order sweater with her telephone number knitted on the front — as three girl watchers take note.

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Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 20, 2017
Category: Fashion | Telephones | 1970s

Comments

1) Find an enemy
2) Put their number on the shirt
3) Hilarity ensues

Posted by crc on 11/20/17 at 07:24 AM

Uh, what? Did you say something?

Posted by KDP on 11/20/17 at 08:56 AM

In the days before the telephone became weaponized by the scumbag telemarketer.

Posted by Virtual on 11/20/17 at 10:36 AM

Great idea. If you call the number on the shirt, you can get anything from a rejection hotline to a pizza place, a psychiatrist, your local congressman or Sex Addict Anonymous. Every big busted lady needs one!

Posted by Yudith on 11/21/17 at 06:19 AM

Pardon me, ma'am, could you lift up your arms so I can read the first and last numerals?

Posted by mindful webworker on 11/21/17 at 03:39 PM

Can’t imagine what would have caught their eye there...

Posted by Brian on 12/01/17 at 04:27 AM

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