I actually remember this Twiggy ad!
Love the “high tech” ones for the picture phone and especially the “angry young computer”. Felt very Mad Men going through these (the drawing in the Dobbs ad looks exactly like Don Draper) though I was very surprised to see Dave Brubeck flogging Kenmore dryers. And what was up with all those gay black dudes drinking Bud? Seems very risqué for its time.
Which ones did you like best?
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I remember the Twiggy ad as well as the mustang one and the vw ad with all the red VW buses parked in the neighborhood.
I’m not sure that I interpret the group of black bud drinkers as gay, but I can see how one would, some of the body language has distinct overtones.
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Well, I was just sort of joking about the gay bit. I actually found it striking that back then they would actually feature four black men in a beer ad.
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I wonder if that ad was aimed specifically at Ebony Magazine (which was much in the format of Life at one time).
I’m totally creeped out by the smoking poodle.
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Gosh, I’d never noticed that Twiggy had such enormous ears.
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Twiggy was the model who caused me the most angst when I was a teenager. After all, I had normal shaped eyes, curly hair, breasts, and hips. Twiggy’s standard of waif-ly skinniness drove me to despair. I finally decided that any industry that was so cruel as to pose such a standard on normal girls was not one I wanted to reward. That was when I started wearing what I describe as classic clothes –things that are not in style and will never be in style but are not really out of style either. I have a green silk dress that looks exactly like some of the tunics on Greek statues. Not really in style, but it always looks right. Especially with pearls.
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They really are HUGE ears, aren’t they?
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My husband met Twiggy, back in the day.
She was visiting Expo ’67 and his father was in charge of the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Man and His World. She visited and since it was lunch time, she asked them to have lunch with her there. She thought my husband was “cute” and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He was 4 at the time, so wasn’t terribly impressed.
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I have to say that none of those meant anything to me.
Mind you – I was growing up in New Zealand at that time, and not very exposed to advertising – as far as I recall.
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The Woody Allen ad surprised me
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I didn’t know any of them either, BBJP. I think its a yankocentric list.
Hey, I think I just invented a new word!
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Definitely yankocentric! (nice word, Nog! 🙂 ) I’ve not seen any of those adverts.
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