Photo Credit: Bass Shoes
I am always amazed at vintage ads and their ability to display sexual prowess with fully clothed women. This wonderful ad brings up visions on Don Draper from Mad Men operating on the ladies, but it also creates an unrealistic interpretation of the old Ivy League style.
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wow, ads always made no sense and went with blunt emotional/sexual appeal. The implied subtext is that if you wear Weejuns (even on your hand in your bedroom) hot chicks will magically appear filled with lust for you.
However, the photo shows a doofus ignoring an interested babe in favor of polishing a brush-off loafer. So the Weejuns say you brush off women in favor of shoe maintenance. Not good.
I must agree that the nuanced sexuality is MUCH better done than, say, the inane AXE body spray ads or anything recent.
I love the older ads also. Why don't people realize that showing all the goods is not sexy, it it trashy. I am tired of half naked people wherever I turn. There is something to be said for mystery and anticipation....
We cannot tell from this photo if the women is fully clothed or naked.
Agreed Anon, I am sick and tire of it.
Like the model in the ad, I've been treated decently by beautiful women on occasion. But advertising, in any medium, is based largely on fantasy.
Nudity and semi-nudity are aesthetic crutches, shortcuts for achieving an emotional effect or response in just a few seconds. I agree they lack mystique in establishing a mood, but that's just where we are.
Love your blog!
look forward to reading future posts.
um kay
Do you honestly believe Don Draper would shine his own shoes?
There ought to be a law that says that blogs will be shut down by the government if bloggers fail to post anything for such a long period of time.
Have you no respect for your readers?
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