Not Beach Wear
Hmmm. Knitting content, knitting content...let's see...
Oooh, I know! Let's diss vintage Spinnerin again, that'll do.
Now, peruse this carefully -- it's the cover of "His and Hers," a Spinnerin knitting collection from 1963 -- and see if you can figure out why I find it so infernally amusing:
Yep, that's it. The sweater on the woman is just plain stupid. It's the feminine version of what's on the man -- his isn't quite as dumb looking, probably on account of not being knit up in yellow with green and red borders. Boxy and plain -- with an unconvincing fake-Nehru collar clasped by the then very popular fake oriental frog closing which is actually concocted of two buttons and a loop of yarn (all this on top of a zipper, you understand -- that's how the thing's held together), it should NOT be worn at the beach. Maybe, maybe, in the VW to go to the grocery store. But beach wear? No, I don't think so. And it should NEVER, under ANY circumstances, be worn with that cotton skirt. The two are just not working well together.
What that's you say? You've noticed that the models are apparently having a lunch consisting entirely of corn syrup and caffeine, served down at the low tide mark at high tide? Oh, that was the fashion that year, I think; the back cover models are doing it too:
You can see from the back cover that once you finished all your Coca-Cola (and I do hope they paid well for this advertising opportunity), you were so discombobulated that you actually stopped caring if your pants got wet.
Ah, 1963. What a year it was.
Oooh, I know! Let's diss vintage Spinnerin again, that'll do.
Now, peruse this carefully -- it's the cover of "His and Hers," a Spinnerin knitting collection from 1963 -- and see if you can figure out why I find it so infernally amusing:
Yep, that's it. The sweater on the woman is just plain stupid. It's the feminine version of what's on the man -- his isn't quite as dumb looking, probably on account of not being knit up in yellow with green and red borders. Boxy and plain -- with an unconvincing fake-Nehru collar clasped by the then very popular fake oriental frog closing which is actually concocted of two buttons and a loop of yarn (all this on top of a zipper, you understand -- that's how the thing's held together), it should NOT be worn at the beach. Maybe, maybe, in the VW to go to the grocery store. But beach wear? No, I don't think so. And it should NEVER, under ANY circumstances, be worn with that cotton skirt. The two are just not working well together.
What that's you say? You've noticed that the models are apparently having a lunch consisting entirely of corn syrup and caffeine, served down at the low tide mark at high tide? Oh, that was the fashion that year, I think; the back cover models are doing it too:
You can see from the back cover that once you finished all your Coca-Cola (and I do hope they paid well for this advertising opportunity), you were so discombobulated that you actually stopped caring if your pants got wet.
Ah, 1963. What a year it was.
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