Sleep in a Sandwich

I would totally buy this right now. "Includes one pickle and one tomato (pillowcases)." A vintage ad from 1970, in MewDeep's excellent Flickr stream. (via the Boing Boing Flickr Pool)

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Antinous / Moderator

I’m mortified that I didn’t have these when I was 12. I did have these Vera sheets in blue, though.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  fancy!!
- suburbanhick
  
  Yeah, I always wanted Vera on my sheets too, but she wouldn’t give me the time of day…
jimh

Add your own condiments!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Ma(n)yonnaise?
Chuck

A crazy, screaming old man told me that it’s a trap set by giants. Should I heed his word?
spacemunky

I want these sheets on a racecar bed for the cognitive dissonance it would cause during sleepovers.
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Not sure how it’s 50% polyester and 50% percale. Percale isn’t a fabric, it’s a style of weaving used to make fabrics. Ergo it could be 50% polyester and 50% percale made up of 100% polyester.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Actually percale is plain-weave with a thread-count over 200 per inch, lower-count fabric being known as muslin.
  - http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
    
    Perhaps style wasn’t the best word. It’s a fine weave, but it still doesn’t specify the original materials that make up the blend.
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

You sleep in a sandwich
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Depends on the other two people…
RuthlessRuben

I always thought the only “pow colors” were olive drab and beige.
10xor01

Cool sheets! But for the 70s, I’ll stick with these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blake/4217035339/lightbox/
Ben Freund

Love the copywriting: “They’re great.”
- rocketpjs
  
  Well, they are. (as read in an ultra-neutral voice)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I really didn’t like the 70s. All sorts of cool stuff was happening — the beginnings of D&D and other nerdly classics — but pop culture was full of dreadful kitsch like this.
taghag

You’re the meat!
http://twitter.com/LazyBrainGames Johnny B.

I’d like one bed sandwich please, with extra sex. What? I have to get the sex myself? Whatever, I’ll just have these chair chips then.
pxlpig

Dammit, I went and grabbed my wallet before scrolling down far enough to see 1970.
Sawdust

You’ve buttered your bread, now lie in it.
exile

Mmm, static electricity.
jackie31337

I’m supposedly a mature adult, but part of me would also totally buy this right now.

Also, look at the prices! You could probably expect to pay about the same now for a cheap cotton/poly novelty sheet set. These were pretty expensive for 1970.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  I assumed that bed linen was a rare commodity in 1970′s America; otherwise the price certainly seems a little steep.
Robert Cruickshank

I can’t decide whether to go with a line about crusty sheets, or pulled pork…
niktemadur

Alan’s psychedelic breakfast, in bed.
- suburbanhick
  
  Pink Floyd FTW!
teapot

There’s also these modern re-makes by an Australian company.