August 13th, 2008 -- by Bacchus
Towel Girls
Recently somebody sent me a pair of vintage towel ads which I thought were just wonderful. It’s all about freshly showered American housewives, luxuriating in their shrines to the glory of consumer textiles:
I am picturing the living room conversation over these magazine ads.
Wife: “Honey, look at this! I want a bathroom just like that!”
Husband (spoken): “Yes, dear.”
Husband (unspoken): “Me too, if it means you’ll be dressed just like that.”
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If there is one thing that occupies my fantasies it is a woman fresh from the batch, wrapped in a towel, warm, damp and vulnerable. The smell of clean skin, soap, shampoo and the dampness making her pussy hair curl. Hmmmm… delectable.
Hi,
Can I borrow your towel?
My car just hit a water buffalo, and I…
Those ladies sure have a LOT of towels in the cabinets there…perhaps devotees of the Howard Hughes use it once and throw it away school of thought?
My guess is that the advertiser (a towel company) was at least aiming for a “you must launder your towels after a single use” marketing message — which in the heady age when families had both a single wage earner and a new-fangled automatic washing machine, might even have been an attainable advertising goal.
Ad these ads came out at a time when women were allowed to have expressive eyebrows. Early 60s perhaps?
That’s what I miss about the 80s. The eyebrows. Women could express concern, shock, anger, and simple flat-browed lust. I grew up on the thicker, more expressive browline. Brooke Shields is just a few years older than me. I do not like today’s thin arch which creates a costant impression of aloofness or mild surprise. Women today are made to look like some kind of medieval saint from an old painting.
Give me Brooke. Give me all those 80s video chicks who shaped my early adolescence. Give me the young women of my youth now entering middle age still capapable of expressing their true feelings by forrowing or flattening their brows. Madonna had it pretty thick when she sang “Express Yourself”, and thus she was able to wxpress herself. Women today are less lucky, less empowered, and so are to me less attractive.
Imagine blue towel woman was plucked to a thin arch: We wouldn’t be able to discern she really liked the towel and might be open to other activities,
I can just hear “The Beave” now…
“Gee Wally, look at the bathroom in this magazine ad. A guy could play full-court basketball in there!”
Personally I never lived in a home where one could put both a bar stool and a Scandinavian-style woven jute webbing lounge chair in the room and still have room to break wind.
As for the eyebrows comment, I have to admit I tend to side with Bacopa a bit on that one. As a child, there was a woman in my neighborhood who had plucked her eyebrows a bit too enthusiastically and had to draw them on. She always placed them so high above her eyes that she looked like some kid with a sling-shot just managed to get a large ice cube past her sphincter.
Unfortunately many young girls don’t realize that plucked eyebrows just once don’t always grow back… ever! …and the more you pluck them, the more likely it will be that they won’t. They try to model themselves after some actress, pop tart, or runway waif that’s currently popular and a few months down the road the eyebrow look changes a bit and it’s too late for them.
When Natalie Portman was younger she had great brows, and she knew how to use them!