UH

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, I totally see the connection.

Comments

[whoseline_wlsc]

I'm guessing this came out around Thanksgiving. Love those pink shoes!

[year-anda-day.livejournal.com]

Those colors... turkeys with forks... the irrelevance of the ad to the product... wow.

Maybe the ad agency was stoned? It looks like the sixties to me.

[fearandloathing.livejournal.com]

Stoned! That's it!!!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

It kind of gives off a black widow/homicidal vibe to me. Okay, yellow-and-pink widow, maybe.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Whoever did that advert was on something.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

but what about the company that approved the ad agencies work? what was THEIR problem. Good giref this is one of the least effective ads ever.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

This would have been great for the You're Selling What? as in, no, really, what in the heck are you selling? Poultry? Cookbooks? Ovens that are really large or cook 4 times faster? Oh, maybe it's the dinnerware or silverware on the floor. I could look at this ad all day and never figure out it was for clothes. They really should have made "Count your blessings" as part of the display text and that would have helped establish the connection a little bit.

To me there's a cannabalistic quality to this ad, especially since this is obviously from the 60s when it was hip to co-opt the British term "bird" for girl. Then again, maybe it's supposed to be a psychosexual thing as if the woman is suggesting "you can eat me, too, you know."

And I agree with other posters that somebody was on something and really had the munchies!

[sunshinesarah.livejournal.com]

I had to read this like 5 times before I figured out that what they're selling is the dress/apron.

But I'm still totally confused overall.

[siddles.livejournal.com]

"overall" - ha, punny.

[dredpirateleena.livejournal.com]

Reading through it more just makes it worse, for me. Every time I think I've got it, I re-read it and start to self doubt.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

Same here, I couldn't tell what they wanted. When I read the word 'knit', I figured they were selling the hose. If they want to sell aprons, why don't they sell aprons instead of dead turkeys? Or better yet, sell pretty aprons? The colors shown and described sound pretty, but the apron is a dud.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I think I'm starting to make sense of it. They're saying "Our polyester double-knit aprons are so effin' awesome that if you wear one, you'll turn into a cooking diva. You'll be like Julia Child, but sexy."

All I can think is how uncomfortable it would be to wear polyester double knit in a hot kitchen. There was way too much of that stuff around well into the 70s and I was forced to wear far too much of it as a kid. :P

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, this was also a wool blend. Even worse!

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

Those colors make me feel ill.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

At first I thought this was an ad for some "revolutionary" diet product. Like speed.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Now I want some turkey.