Colgate & Co's "Cashmere Bouquet" for the Handkerchief

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Sunday Magazine, January 1886, inside back cover

© Bill Pusztai 2004

Happy celebrating if you're doing it today!

Comments

[pronker]

Same to you! And I like your icon - if it's from a fandom, I don't know about it, but it made me smile all the same. :)

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Thanks! it's actually a riff on Soviet communist-era posters, you know those heroic portraits of young workers looking nobly into the distance, fierce but optimistic etc etc.
history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism
examples: http://v4valentine.tripod.com/SPP/MA0102_Index.htm

The icon is called "Reds Under the Bed", you can read about that phrase here: http://alphahistory.com/coldwar/reds-under-the-bed/

I kind of like the idea of communism as a fandom ....

Thanks for the links and info.

[pronker]

Ha! Well, then, I propose making an icon for the Russian Army Chorus bass, Leonid Kharitonov. He's got a wonderful voice. *scouts around for images of him*

Communism as a fandom ... hmmm. Food for thought. :)

[misstia]

This is a wonderful ad!!

[dandyads]

As much as I want to comment on the not-quite-right proportion of his arms, there's still something charming about this ad

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

slightly bent elbows, i would presume.

the folds of the sleeves make it a little less obvious.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Dreaded malady - "Christmas Elbow".

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

is that any kin to the teenaged boy malady when the boy in question washes himself entirely too thoroughly? at least that was the excuse I was given....

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

OK I'll bite ... what's it called?

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

put me on the spot why don't you.....

spanker's elbow maybe?

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Xtube Elbow?

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

or redtube, xhamster, so very many variants lol!

...damn autocorrect