c.1949: “I dreamed I was a medieval maiden in my Maidenform bra”

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Oh Wow, I mean what do you say to something like that today?




The ad is based on one of the the late-15th-century “Lady and the Unicorn” tapestries.

“The Lady and the Unicorn (French: La Dame à la licorne) is the modern title given to a series of six tapestries woven in Flanders of wool and silk, from designs (“cartoons”) drawn in Paris in the late fifteenth century.”

- Wikipedia





http://www.retronaut.com/2013/10/maidenform/

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1. "Genius idea"

That Copywriter should be hunted down in his retirement and shot.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Heh!

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4. Figuratively speaking,of course.

Pun purely intended.

[ismnotwasm]

5. But of course!

[Scootaloo]

3. I like that the ad doesn't have her hand wrapped around the unicorn's horn

Whassamatter, ad designers? obvious symbolism a little too much for you?

[ismnotwasm]

6. I found that interesting as well

Instead she's holding its mouth shut, which could be interpreted in a couple of interesting ways

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7. It was the pre-1950s.

Gets the idea across, anyway. Hang the Copywriter's Art History professor who pointed out the symbolic references, too! Freudians.

[ismnotwasm]

8. LOL

You're cracking me up

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9. High Modernism was a good time, then came what followed.

[ismnotwasm]

11. Post modernist?

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15. Hmm. That could be retro pastiche, too.

Authentic retro (or post-modern?), or just silly English humor. You decide:

[ismnotwasm]

17. Heh! Perfect

But How do we know it's not an English version of crop circles?

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18. Now, THIS is retro pastiche:

Which brings us right back to where we started circa 1949 Madison Ave, sorta.

[ismnotwasm]

20. Why does this remind me of smiling Bob?

Oy. The more things change....

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21. Smilin' Bob's also a post-modern parody of Bob of the Church of the Subgenius (c. 1980)

Advertising gets really incestuous. Shameless, really.

[ismnotwasm]

22. Sheer plagiarism

Of a sort. I believe they call it 'creative borrowing' these days.

[leveymg]

23. More of an inside joke.

Here's the philosophical underpinnings of The Church (in comic book form). Bob wouldn't mind - he has weightier issues to deal with:

[ismnotwasm]

25. Well Google is my friend

I've seen the references but didn't know what it was about. Mixes it up a bit does it?

Now, for no apparent reason, I've got the "The Illuminatus trilogy on my mind. Hands down the hardest--or easiest book I've ever read. I read a lot so I get the equivalent of literary ear worms.

Ugh.

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26. Wow. Haven't deconstructed that one yet. Been waiting for a long prison sentence

or inheritance (can't decide which) before I can start a Trilogy.

Besides, reading DU daily gives me a healthy adult dose of the same sort of paranoid conspiratorial subtexts and constant melodrama. Someone should write the novel.

[CottonBear]

12. The awful post-modernism.

BTW, bras were not invented until the early 20th century.
Edit: Dali was not post-modern.
Edit: The art was OK but the architecture was just awful.

[ismnotwasm]

13. I was thinking Simpsons

But, I am far from any kind of art expert

[CottonBear]

16. LOL! The Simpsons graphic is brilliant!

Dali was a Modernist & Surrealist!
I've studied art history but I am not an expert.
Thanks for posting that great image!

[ismnotwasm]

14. They were better than corsets, so I see how they'd be considered a step up

[CottonBear]

19. Ouch! n/t

[gopiscrap]

10. WTF

[Shrike47]

24. Ah, back when engineering was involved! Those breasts could double as weapons.

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27. Don't run with those in your hands. Could put an eye out.

... ....

[Shivering Jemmy]

28. Perfect reply for this

http://discardingimages.tumblr.com/post/63107967588/flame-farting-bonnacon-in-asia-an-animal-is-found