Marshmallow bedding

From a smashing collection of vintage bedding ads on Voices of East Anglia, this marshmallowey sleeping bag that makes your little ones feel like they're cocooned in spun sugar.

I'm Only Dreaming - Vintage Bedding Adverts (via How to Be a Retronaut)

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Chentzilla

Makes your little ones feel like they are caries incarnate.
fungstyle

TAKE MY MONEY.
- Trefunk
  
  and my kids.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus

Did you know that if you microwave them, they puff up and the center gets all warm and chewy?
- Marky
  
  What, your kids?
Nash Rambler

Mock all you want, but this is a product worth having. Besides, there’s something just unwholesome enough about treating children like food.
SoItBegins

“Oooooh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener…”
cheesebubble

Awesome! I had one of these when I was a kid. It may very well be kicking around my parents’ basement somewhere – now I feel compelled to have a look for it.
timquinn

This reminds me that everything produced or promoted in this country during that period was a miserable pathetic flattened version of whatever it was promoted to be. Wonderbread for example. What was up with the greatest generation ever. They seemed to have a very low opinion of themselves.
http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises

“…cocooned in spun sugar”? More like cocooned in gelatin (animal collagen), corn syrup, water, and yes, sugar — plus some other wonderful things. Yummy!
- pjcamp
  
  With a taste somewhere south of circus peanuts.
BillStewart2012

It’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man!