Puritanical ice-cream clothes

My goodness, but the Ice Cream Colors in this 1949 Puritan Sportswear ad look sytlishly delicious. Not entirely puritanical, either.

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This all makes perfect sense.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Bill Stern talking about the jinx of Time Magazine the same year as the above – 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_CwnWWvVgw
- charming.quark
  
  This comment should be below.
- Preston Sturges
  
  Just look what it did to the fedora.
Gbaji

I haven’t been able to find decent bisque ice cream since the Ford Administration. Nowadays everyone substitutes in “crustacean by-products.”
- Preston Sturges
  
  And you can’t get other old time flavors like Limburger Lime and Unfiltered Lucky Strike Mocha.
- shutz
  
  Me, I miss the “ice gray” flavor. Me and my childhood friends would while away many a hot summer afternoon debating what it was, exactly, that we were tasting. I mean, everybody knows red/pink is strawberry, orange is orange, yellow is lemon, green is lime, blue is raspberry… but what the hell is gray?
  
  Bisque? We wish we had access to bisque-flavored ice cream.
  
  Also, the guy in that ad probably leaned his elbow into a melted raspberry ice cream puddle, hence the arrow pointing at his darkened elbow. Kind of reminds me of the Monty Python bit: How To Recognise Different Parts of the Body
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Drop/100000929402049 Robert Drop
    
    I bet it’s that Japanese gray sea salt ice cream.
- charming.quark
  
  Limpets and Cream!
Preston Sturges

And fellas, a v-neck sweater and bow tie is still catnip to the babes.
- http://www.facebook.com/victor.jimenezmerino Víctor Jiménez Merino
  
  They start salivating and end belly up chasing rainbow space rodents?
  - Preston Sturges
    
    No that’s ketamine.
Snig

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/1958_ray_bradbury_magic_white_suit.pdf

Read this a while ago, reminds me of this.
Preston Sturges

If you scroll up and down there is sort of a zoetrope effect
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  I see that on almost every picture.
  
  And isn’t there a house brand from Target called Puritan these days?
rattypilgrim

Subliminal advertising has been around for a long time.
Also, I’m going to guess ice gray was licorice flavor.
jimkirk

Inspired by Ray Bradbury?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129634/
edit: Whoops, this predates the Bradbury story. Did this inspire Bradbury?
- Snig
  
  He had a couple versions of it, if memory serves, the one that I posted up above is from Saturday Evening Post was from 1959. I remember it differently, don’t know which of his short story collections I initially read it in. I don’t know if he came up with the name Ice Cream Suit on his own, or if it was a common description.
  - Snig
    
    It seems the original was 1958. Interesting stuff on the story and the movie here (interesting to me anyway):
    http://thepinksmoke.com/wonderfulicecreamsuit.htm
    Didn’t realize it was a movie, may try to track it down.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

The snozberries taste like snozberries!
welcomeabored

I don’t know about these sweaters, but when my honey puts on his gray cashmere v-neck sweater, I have to restrain myself from ‘petting’ him – he’s ‘sensationally smooth’. Hubahuba husband.
DevinC

I would have called that colour lavender.

But that’s just me.
rocketpj

I could actually wear a pistachio cardigan. But then I have no fashion sense to speak of.
Columboss

“look sytlishly delicious”

Indeed.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

There is actually a Puritan Ice Cream Company in Boston.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
  
  Are you supposed to feel guilty about enjoying it?
  - Preston Sturges
    
    You’re supposed to deny the guilt and sublimate it as aggression against “witches” and friendly native Americans.
pjcamp

That’s quite a large glass of sport he has there.
Preston Sturges

An ad from Dean Martin’s sober period.
Preston Sturges

If your earliest sexual fantasy was being Violet Beauregard with a dozen oompa-loompas, this is just the ticket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_cf_fZDc0
- Preston Sturges
  
  Ooops I meant for that comment to go in the inflatable bondage egg thread.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BJ25CCEPCEC5N6Y4VFT2FJALEY WilliamS

Puritan made good quality clothing. Now it’s a Walmart brand for cheap $%&@.