The Revolution Will Be…Plaid?
Product: h.i.s. Post-Grad Slacks
Date: 1969
Oh my my my. There’s so much you could say about this ad, and yet it’s almost better to let it speak for itself. Published in a Playboy magazine at the tail end of the ’60s, it was intended to epitomize all that was cool.
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Hump, There It Is!
Product: DeLong Hook and Eye
Date: 1896
This ad reminds me of nothing so much as the Victorian equivalent of “SEX! ha ha. Now that we have your attention…”
Why else use those two strange words called out in large letters: approximately and hump. Does Approximately hump make any sense as a sentence? No. Does it speak of hook and eyes? No, not really. Does the sentence starting with approximately even make sense?
Approximately the cut below represents the DeLong Hooks and Eyes.
Nope, no sense at all.
But you’ve got hand it to the designer — it certainly is an attention grabber.
And I haven’t even mentioned the clean, uncrowded layout with lots of white space (this during a time when it was common practice to cram your ads with as much copy as possible) and the simple, yet elegant diagram demonstrating the Dramatic Difference of the product.
From the text, we can surmise that randomly popping hooks were quite a problem for well-dressed ladies of the day. Oh my.
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