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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Have a Pepsi, scoliosis victims!

OK, as a still-in-student-loan-debt holder of a B.A.A. in Studio Art, I once again call No Way:



Her spine is bad enough--now look at her foot.

That's supposed to be her right foot.

So, then . . . is that her right knee sticking out toward the back? Is she kneeling on her left knee, and that's her left foot causing the right-angle bulge at the rear of her skirt? No, that doesn't work either, unless her right thigh is twice as long as her left, or the foot belongs to an otherwise unseen third party.

Did this couple honeymoon in Las Vegas and fall prey to a disreputable magician who sawed the lady apart and didn't put her back together correctly? And perhaps he made it up to them by granting them the power to magically levitate bench- and table-tops?

Or did the artist just patch together two sketches from two completely different poses?

Perhaps people in 1957 got so thin from drinking "today's Pepsi-Cola, reduced in calories" that their bones snapped like candy cigarettes.

I had not realized that Americans were worried about "staying slim" as early as December 1957. But if their preferred method for doing this was to drink lots of soda, I can see why obesity is an even bigger problem today.

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