The Glass Character
Showing posts with label 1940s advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1940s advertising. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

No droopy drawers: the Munsingwear Men

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Whenever I find a vast trove of ads for Munsingwear men's underwear, it's a happy day. I have...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The giant bar of soap: Bath-Size Camay

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Friday, February 17, 2017

That Buick Girl

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Since my discovery/rediscovery of the ravishing Buick ad with the girl leaning on the even-more-ravishing 1946 Buick, I've been tin...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The continuing saga of the Munsingwear Men

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HOME FRONT: The only thing well-knit about you, muscle man, is your underwear! The way that outfit clings to even your hideous fram...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Go, men. . . go Munsingwear!

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These are some choice cuts from the Munsingwear cartoon-style ads I love so ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

This is why nothing happens to you

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EDNA'S case was really a pathetic one. Like every woman, her primary ambition was to marr...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Oh, Mary! This is your underwear speaking

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Oh, poor Mary. She smells so bad that not only does her dress talk to her, her undies and even her THERMOMETER talks to her, and they AL...
Monday, March 31, 2014

What a douche!

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This is the latest in a long, incredible line of ads aimed at women, presumably post-War. This absolutely baffled me at first (actua...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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