When I wasn't checking Vodka Lemonade's status on Ravelry last week, I was out on the back deck working on a few Fall projects.
And research on new sweaters usually means a few hours with my pile of vintage magazines, looking for the perfect cable or stitch pattern or neckline. I'm always amused at the inexplicable photo setups - with the crazy expressions and the out of place props, but the photo below was particularly weird. Even for a 1960s knitting magazine.
It's from the aptly named "A Collection of Aran Sweaters in Fleischer's Bear Brand Botany Yarns", which sold for a whopping 60 cents in 1965. (Someone may have been paid to come up with that.)
Mom, Dad, and Son all have the same exact sweater on, and Dad wears his with the waist ribbing cuffed upwards. (Did the stylist figure nobody would notice?) He's holding the phone, covering the receiver and yelling at Son. Son is smirking at Dad and sucking on one of those long hay-like grasses you find in a field. Perfectly coiffed Mom gets a chair and drink. Behind them on the wall hang leather straps and stirrups and a kerosene lamp.
I'm in the mood for comments, so if you have a good story for what's going on or a great caption for the photo above, be sure to tell me below. I'm particularly confused by the grass, and the straw seems out of place in that turkish coffee glass. It's all just a bit too oddly combined, right?
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I'll let this go until Wednesday night, and the best one will win a skein of Plucky Rustic in Fly The Concord.
It looks like this:
picture slurped off the Plucky website...
It looks like this:
Have fun :-)
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